Does anyone get them? Until the last two weeks, I'd only ever had three in my life: two from night terrors, and one when I found out I was pregnant when I was 20 and thought I didn't have any options.
Now I have had what I believe to be three in the past month, but I am not sure. I had my heart checked a month ago because I ended up in the ER thinking I was dying (physician did an EKG etc and said, verbatim "I'm not worried about your heart at all."). I'm not anemic, my hormones are fine; I've had a CBC within the past year. I'm not pregnant, I'm not addicted to drugs or alcohol. So here's my symptoms:
- Sudden onset of light headed feeling, accompanied by sharp vision and sense of walls "zooming" in on me
- Racing heart in the 120 - 140 bpm range (my resting is usually 60-75)
- Visibly shaking uncontrollably, feeling like I'm shaking even inside
- Hyperventilation
- Rapid "fight or flight" thought
- Absolute conviction that I am dying of a heart attack and/or some obscure disease and/or will die very shortly
- Feelings of desperation, have to "get away", needing to "run way"
- Feelings of total imminent doom
After these episodes, which last between 5 and 20 minutes, I feel very tired, almost tearfully exhausted, and cold.
I am not a fearful person, never have been. I realize I have had a lot of change lately, but it doesn't appear to have bothered me much before. I have recently become estranged from my sister who used to be very dear to me- she chose to maintain contact with our horrifically abusive mother, and I can't have that beast anywhere near me or knowing where I live, what I'm doing, where I work, etc etc. That has affected me more than I like to admit.
Anyone with experience in panic attacks, lend some words of advice?



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