Severe panic attacks more than a year after preeclampsia and stress?
Yesterday I had a severe panic attack. I thought I was dying of a heart attack. I have never ever had problems with anxiety, I am actually a little reckless and not a fearful person at all. It came out of nowhere during dinner after a wonderful day. I don’t know why it happened. I went to the hospital and they did an EKG and everything was fine except my heart rate was way to fast. So with all my symptoms (numb left arm and fingers, hyperventilation, short breath, severe chest pain, etc) they said it was a panic attack and gave me 5mg of Diazepam (Valium like). It took more than an hour to work at all. I was discharged and told to see my family doc for a plan for treatment. It had happened once a month since April and twice this month but only for about thirty minutes at a time and without the severe chest pain and hyperventilation. In April, when I had the first one, something kind of traumatic happened and it was pretty bad (vomiting and everything). Could that incident in April have triggered them? I also had preeclampsia that went undiagnosed for two months and nearly died, had emergency csection after 25 hrs of induced labor split up over two days. I was terrified of having a csection and i was freaking out for two days following the birth. It was an extremely terrifying situation for me. So could this be related to either of those situations?
I know this is long but I am very confused and google is just no help with this, i tried. Thank you so much for respectful answers.
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Negative emotions (like sadness, stress, anger, etc.) causes your Serotonin production to be low; when your Serotonin level is low, you are more prone to getting Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Depression, etc.
Medication like Antidepressants (SSRI – Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) helps to boost Serotonin level.
But there are natural ways to do it without medication. There’s this herb called "St John’s Wort" – it is said to be more effective than Prozac. No, it is not for mild depression only and ignore those sayings. In fact, it does help anxiety and panic-attacks as St John’s Wort works like prozac. Other natural ways will be exercise, diet, more exposure to light, etc.
If you’re unable to take St John’s Wort, you can substitute it with Siberian Ginseng or Licorice Herb.
The problem is that, even if your Serotonin is balanced… you have that "learned behavior" in your mind. You need to break that initial cycle to destroy that learned behavior – Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) does this. A technique that you can use without CBT will be Distraction… There are several other techniques to help cope them!
Ok, to use Distraction: Firstly, try to….
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