I’ve had a few panic attacks before, never this extreme though.

Me and my boyfriend were having a fight late at night.
I guess I zoned out and started breathing rapidly.
My heart rate increased and I was hyperventilating.
My breathing and heart rate became very irregular.
While trying to breath, I ended up choking on my tongue/saliva.
I think I may have inhaled some of it because the pain worsened.
I continued to gag and cough.
10-20 minutes later after I relaxed a bit, I sat up and felt chills/coldsweat all over my body.
It was very scary. Longest one I’ve ever had.

Tags: chills, gag, heart rate, hyperventilating, Panic Attacks, saliva, tongue

Earlier today my boyfriend and I got in a really huge fight and we almost broke up. Afterwards I was still pretty upset. I began to cry and all of a sudden it got a lot worse. I started hyperventilating, shaking, and felt very lightheaded. I was really scared because this has never happened to me before and I was thinking maybe I was having a panic attack but I’m not sure. Are these symptoms of a panic attack?

Tags: hyperventilating, symptoms of a panic attack

I’ve been having anxiety attacks for about a year now. I didn’t know what these attacks were at first so I ignored them, but after my friend wittnessed me suffering from one, he suggested that I look up anxiety attacks online. A lot of my symptoms (uncontrollable shaking/tremors, blackouts, hot flashes, headaches, trouble breathing/hyperventilating, heart beating loud hard and fast, and dizziness and more) matched the symptoms of anxiety attacks I found online. I’ve passed out from two attacks so far and whenever I’m under a lot of stress or am running late or see my worst fear (spiders), I have an attack. Some are worse than others, when I have much on my mind that is when my worst attacks coem. I can sometimes control them, but other times I can’t. I’m seventeen years old.

What should I do?
I’ve told me parents and they haven’t done anything. I also don’t want to be given medicine that turns me into a zombie.

Tags: blackouts, dizziness, fear, headaches, heart, hot flashes, hyperventilating, medicine, parents, seventeen years, spiders, stress, symptoms of anxiety, symptoms of anxiety attacks, tremors, trouble breathing, zombie

So when I was younger, I would get nauseous wherever I went, for no real reason, but back then I was able to block it out, almost forget it.

A few weeks ago, maybe 4, I got extremely nauseous in school. It was out of the blue. I went home early and thought it was just maybe a flu like symptom or just something that would pass. No. I came to school the next day and in certain classes I had (what I think) are full blown panic attacks and I don’t know why:

-Everything became sort of like tunnel vision, like the edges of whatever I was looking at got blurry. I felt disconnected from the scene around me.
-my fingers and toes started tingling
-I could barely breathe and started hyperventilating
-I felt extremely nauseous, like I was going to throw up (I have a phobia of throwing up so that probably made it worse)
-I couldn’t concentrate
-I felt like I was going to have a seizure and/or die
-I got chills or started sweating
-I felt dizzy
-My heart was pounding in my ears
-I feel trapped, like I can’t control the situation

Everytime I think about school I get nauseous. I haven’t been back to school for a full day since, I can’t do that, and I keep telling myself subconciously I can’t.Everytime I think about having to go back I cry and get realy irritable. I don’t understand why though, I’m not bullied, I get good grades. Stress maybe? My mom thinks that I’ve just got really bad stomach problems. I’ve gone to maybe 5 doctors and gotten 5 tests done on my stomach in the last two weeks and nobody can tell me what’s wrong.

I can’t even sit in waiting rooms or go in stores for long without having an anxiety attack nowadays. I don’t even bother going out anymore. It seems kind of ridiculous to some people, but as soon as I walk in my heart starts pounding in my ears and I can’t breathe. I feel trapped, like I can’t control the situation like I’m going to embarass myself.

Sometimes i have thoughts I don’t want to have and feel like I don’t have control of my own vocal cords and I’m just going to blurt stuff out in the middle of class. I can’t focus on whatevers going on, just the thoughts in my head. I feel like I’m just going to lose it.

I brought up Anxiety/Panic attacks to my parents and they yelled and me and said "you don’t want to be attached to that, to a psycologist" and brushed it off. I really think that’s my problem, but everytime I try and explain that to them they tell me to shut up. My mom thinks I’m being over-dramatic and my dad is just…

I really don’t know what to do now…Am I having panic attacks? Where do I go from here?
Only serious answers please.
My dad actually told me I don’t need medication, all I need is The Bible, but I’m not as religious as he is, so, I don’t seem to get the same gratification out of it that he does.

Tags: anxiety attack, chills, doctors, ears, fingers and toes, flu, flu like, heart, hyperventilating, mom, out of the blue, Panic Attacks, phobia, real reason, seizure, stomach problems, tunnel vision, vocal cords, waiting rooms

A few days after my cesarean, I experienced an anxiety attack, but didn’t know it at the time; I started trembling and hyperventilating. The nurse came in and gave me oxygen, and after about 10 minutes of everyone freaking out, I calmed down.

I am now one year post partum, and have become progressively more of a homebody…..I only go out of the house once every 2 weeks. I went to the store with my husband last night, and wasn’t nervous…in fact it was nice to be out, but by the end of our shopping, I was distracted and irritable, and happy to be back home.

I was fired from my job because I had pneumonia due to collapsed lungs after my cesarean, and I didn’t have any more time off available. I can’t even imagine going out job-hunting.

Have any other moms gone through this? Did you seek professional help? Are you better now? What did doctors tell you? What experiences have you had with these symptoms?

(I have not seen anyone yet, and feel that I will slowly improve)
I suppose I should mention that I was taking zoloft and stopped 6 weeks before getting pregnant. I found that I actually felt BETTER without the depression medication.
Another reason I feel that I might get better is because I found that I was hypothyroid and that can cause some problems with depression. I have been on that for about 5 months.

Tags: 5 months, anxiety attack, cesarean, collapsed lungs, depression medication, doctors, experiences, few days, homebody, hyperventilating, job hunting, medication, moms, nurse, oxygen, pneumonia, post partum, shopping, time off, zoloft

Like sometimes I will get really hot, and start sweating.
I will get really cold.
other times my head will start to shake uncontrollably
sometimes my head will feel odd, and I will black out for a second.
Sometimes I will feel dizzy.

All of these things occur when I am under pressure, or the center of attention. also when I feel like I am being watched

Could These be panic attacks? They only last a minute, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter…

The one I experience most is the shaking head one, but this only lasts about 5 seconds..

A few years ago I had a full blown panic attack with hyperventilating and stuff, It lasted nearly a half an hour….
i don’t smoke, but my parent do..

Tags: center of attention, half an hour, hyperventilating, panic attack, Panic Attacks

When I become anxious, stressed, or upset I am unable to catch my breath. My breathing seems to become shallow, and I cant seem to take in full deep breaths. It is almost like my lungs wont fully expand allowing the deep breath to come in. So, the only way I can seem to breathe in deeply and "catch my breath" is to yawn. Thus doing this after awhile, makes me sleepy. When trying to pay attention to my breathing …. I am not hyperventilating or taking short quick breaths, rather catching myself not breathing. What can I do do catch my breath…I tried the paper sack and it didnt seem to help!

Tags: deep breath, deep breaths, hyperventilating, lungs, paper sack

Over the summer I would wake up with bruises on my arm that would appear overnight when i knew i had done no physical activity to make them. I went through very mild depression,but still depression.
Then one day ,it was picture day at my school so i was happy and with absolutely no worries,then all of a sudden in the last class , i was standing up leanning against the desk ,and i felt that was my legs weaken immediately , my jaw and my entire body started trembling , i couldn’t breath well so i was hyperventilating ,my head was extremely light headed and it moved roughly and introntrollably from side to side ,and i felt in extreme discomfort in the upper half of my body ,though i was conscious the whole time.They checked my pulse and it was okay . At that time time i was taking an anti depresant ,a pill for epilepsy and another pill for anxiety , im 14 years old. When i got to the emergency room they told me it was the medication, but i had the opinions of 2 neurologists and they agreed that it couldn’t of been the medication at all because they will never "meet"in my system. After that , they ran some tests and discovered i wasnt epileptic after alll, but my lordosis (the bone that connects the the head with your body ) was absolutely straight .when its supposed to be in a "c" shape. Ive had more than 1 panic attacks after that ,but with the usual panic attacks symptoms.
My questions are the following

what could it have been ? why?
why the incotrolable head movements?
why the bruises if i have no epilepsy ?

I thank you very much whoever answers.
ps: if you are going to put a stupid and non logical answer id be less offfended if you just wrote 2 points

Tags: alll, anxiety, bruises, desk, emergency room, epilepsy, extreme discomfort, hyperventilating, legs, logical answer, lordosis, medication, mild depression, neurologists, no worries, Panic Attacks, physical activity, shape, time time, whole time

I’ve had generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder now for 5 years, nearing 6 years. the first several years I spent losing everything I worked hard for, lost my way of life, became agoraphobic (still am agoraphobic)..my first panic attack was at age 26..Im now 31 almost 32 and for the past year I’ve been having bouts of severe fatigue and body aches, mostly in my legs and arms..when Im having the fatigue, I feel very weak and my legs feel like they are buckling under me…I feel nauseated when this happens and my mind begins racing with thoughts that I am about to die…This is a relative new symptom…for the first few years, I never experienced the muscle aches, just in my neck area….I always felt tense in my neck and my neck felt stiff alot and I was told that was my anxiety….I now get very severe muscle aches, almost feel like I have the flu but I don’t…I read that this is a common symptom of anxiety and generalized anxiety disorder…I spend my days in non stop worry and I have a half dozen or more true panic attacks a day…my panic attacks consist of complete body shaking, tremors, difficulty breathing, hyperventilating and nausea and dizziness. Sometimes a panic attack will feed off of itself and last up to an hour maybe more…It is scary and I am also medication phobic…I had a prior allergic reaction to a medication and that is a problem with getting treatment because I am scared of taking medicine and not feeling like I am in control…I know it’s silly to think that way because in my current state of mind and body, I am in no way near being in control of myself but that is the mind of an anxious person…what I want to ask is if anyone else experiences these muscle aches…they feel very deep, almost feel like my bones are aching…and as they ache I feel fatigue, sometimes so bad I feel like I have a hard time walking…feeling like Im about to collapse…I am scared and need help bad and want help, I just need to express my worries and hope somone out there can help out or give me some decent advice..or share your experiences with anxiety…thanks….

Tags: 6 years, allergic reaction, anxious person, bouts, complete body, current state, difficulty breathing, dizziness, first few years, generalized anxiety disorder, hyperventilating, mind and body, nausea and dizziness, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attack, panic disorder, stop worry, taking medicine, tremors, wor

I’m 18 and my doctor supposedly said that I suffer from panic attacks due to a long battle with anxiety..I’m under a lot of stress and while my dad died 2 years ago, I experienced another death which made me relive the tragedy once more. about a week ago, in school I felt short of breath and a gripping pain on my chest. Of course, I began to worry about a possible heart attack and all saw was the image of my dad before his heart attack and death..I was sent home and my mom calmed me down and I felt better and slept..I was fine for the next couple of days..then at night, I had a another one of these spells where I felt like I couldn’t breathe, there was pain near my chest, i was sweating, shaking, and hyperventilating. the shortness of breath lasted about 7 minutes…then it repeats again about 2 or 3 times…Then I’d fall asleep. My doctor says he sees nothing wrong with my heart and said I need to calm down…has anyone had these panic attacks or are these symptoms of heart attack??

Tags: anxiety, couple of days, dad, heart attack, hyperventilating, mom, short of breath, shortness of breath, stress, symptoms of heart attack, tragedy

When I fall asleep when I am bored and get woken up I become really drowsy. But then while Im still in that state, I have symptoms of and anxiety attack. I start sweating and hyperventilating until I vomit or heave for a while. Does this happen to anyone else or am I just weird?

And no, I am not on any meds.
well its more of a dosing off than falling into real sleep.

Tags: hyperventilating, meds, sleep, symptoms of and anxiety attack

Ok i’m in high school and i am naturally just a really nervous person when i’m in a new or stressful enviorment.So i have a speech i have to present on tuesday in speech class.Yesterday my teacher gave everyone a chance to step on the podium while everyone was looking to see how it felt and just say a sentence.When i went i just became really nervous.i stutter my words,started shaking,and almost kind of hyperventilating.If i don’t do this speech thats like half of my grade down the drain.So i really want to be successful but i just don’t know how to on my speech[or in anything basically]when my anxiety gets to me.I know everyone gets nervous but i get really nervous..to the point where sometimes if people just look at me i break down.I try telling my parents but they think nothing is wrong with me so they refuse to take me to a person who can help me.I’m 14 by the way.Freshmen.So at that can anyone give me good tips to get rid of my anxiety for this speech.[Hopefully ones that are useful.]

Thank you.

Tags: anxiety, enviorment, freshmen, hyperventilating, nervous person, parents, podium, speech class, stutter

For several years now, I have been battling severe panic attacks related to social anxiety disorder/agoraphobia. It isn’t just "shyness", it’s a full-blown panic attack – sweating, chills, rapid pulse, nausea/vomiting/diarrhea, hyperventilating, and the overwhelming need to get out of the situation immediately.

I am on daily Zoloft to curb the anxiety, and Xanax as-needed for panic attacks. The Zoloft works alright, the Xanax works better, but neither is 100% and I have several very stressful weeks coming up and I need some kind of remedy or trick, preferably something all-natural, to help me cope with the panic attacks.

All ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated. =)

Tags: chills, diarrhea, hyperventilating, nausea, overwhelming need, panic attack, rapid pulse, remedy, social anxiety disorder, xanax, zoloft

I’m 13. I’ve heard you can get heart attacks even at this age. A few weeks ago I had a sudden attack, but they think it was anxiety or allergies even though they didn’t run any tests besides blood pressure, which was normal.

Today I was stressed out. About 20 or 30 minutes ago, my mom was driving us home when my left arm suddenly started hurting. I had no idea why, but I guessed anxiety because of the attack weeks ago. I came in and looked up "left arm pain" and some people were asking similar questions (whether it was anxiety or heart problems). I wasn’t getting the answers I wanted, but I saw an article saying symptoms were almost identical. At that point my pinky and ring fingers were tingling and my heart started racing. I don’t feel much right now, but my arm feels weak and my heart is still pumping fast. (I just felt a pulse in my ears that lasted a few seconds.)

My throat is tightening and my breaths are getting short, and it seems like I might start hyperventilating. That’s most likely anxiety, but it started just right now because I’m getting worked up and could be unrelated.

I have the normal diet of someone my age, if that helps, and an average weight (somewhere around 140-145, and I’m 5′ 6". I know I’m tall).

I’d really like advice from someone who has experience with this.
A few seconds after submitting I got chest pains hurting and the pain went to my right arm.

Tags: 30 minutes, allergies, anxiety, blood pressure, breaths, chest pains, diet, ears, heart attacks, heart problems, hyperventilating, left arm pain, mom, pinky, right arm, ring fingers, sudden attack

After a recent visit to my family doctor I was prescribed Celexa. I can’t go to a meeting at work without basically hyperventilating about it. My heart pounds, my voice cracks and I get majorly sick to my stomach. I actually think i am pretty smart and I am totally not depressed – its completely involuntary. Will these pills fix this? If not, what else can I do? … its starting to really affect my life.

Tags: celexa, family doctor, heart pounds, hyperventilating, pills, sick to my stomach, voice cracks

I have almost no strength in my arm or hands, and I feel like a need to be supported by something (i.e.; leaning).

I also have a pain somewhere in my back, and I feel very much "off in the distance". I feel like I’m going to drop any second, but I know that I won’t.

It started this evening when I was walking down a dark road to the store. All of a sudden, right in front of me was a huge deer, with red glowing eyes. I got scared. I guess I might have thought it might charge at me. I don’t know. My mind was in a fog. All of a sudden, I began hyperventilating and I couldn’t stop. Then I began shaking and just trembling. Soon after, I was inside the store, and I lost almost all of my upper body strength. I had to lean my upper body on the handle
of the cart for support, and just use my legs to move myself about. I also noticed when I went to pick up a box of disposable plastic food containers, that my hands weren’t opening, and I couldn’t move them, so I used my wrists to pick up the light weight box. When I got home, some of it subsided, but I still feel very distant, and I’m having to type in a strange way because of lack of strength.

I’ve had panic attacks before, many times. However, I normally only get a tight, clamping feeling in my chest and I hyperventilate.

Do these sound like panic symptoms to you?
If not, do you have any idea as to what’s going on?
I feel like there’s something wrong with me.

Tags: cart, deer, disposable plastic food containers, fog, glowing eyes, hyperventilating, legs, Panic Attacks, panic symptoms, plastic food containers, strange way, upper body strength

I have been having what I believe to be anxiety attacks, I seem to have all the symptoms, only without the hyperventilating. I do however feel like Im not getting enough air into my lungs. My question is, am I having anxiety attacks, or could it be something else all together. They seem to last about 15 minutes to a half hour.
All of my symptoms include sudden intense body rushes(feels like a cross between an adreniline rush and fear), hot flashes, heart palpitations, tingling in arms and hands, feeling of impending doom, and sometimes a metallic taste in the back of my toungue, trouble swallowing and a feeling like I gotta move around. It’s not a great list of things to be experiencing at the same time.
I can tell when ones about to come on now because I get a pain in the middle of my back, and then wham it hits. Is anybody else out there having these symptoms?

Tags: 15 minutes, adreniline rush, Anxiety Attacks, feeling of impending doom, half hour, heart palpitations, hot flashes, hyperventilating, lungs, metallic taste, tingling in arms, tingling in arms and hands, wham

I have panic attacks at night at least once a week.
I wake up out of sleep panicy, hyperventilating, shaking and fearful.
Then i usually throw up and can’t get back to sleep.

I’m 16.

How can i get control over this without drugs.

Tags: drugs, hyperventilating, Panic Attacks, sleep