nicktaylor
19-05-06, 23:44
Hi all,
I've been reading the forums here for a while, and I posted a couple of times last summer. I started having bad panic attacks last May. They've pretty much gone away now - though I do still have what I'd call a 'low level' of anxiety... It's always there bubbling away and comes back as soon as something makes me feel uncomfortable.
One of the biggest scares is ectopics. I started getting them a while after having my first panic attack - just randomly out of the blue like a 'thump' in my chest, and what seemed like my heart flushing into my stomach, literally like a toilet flush in my chest!
I only used to get them one at a time, maybe once every few weeks. Lately I've had them more often (sometimes a couple of times a day) and in groups of three or four.
They seem related to my stomach - if I move suddenly, or if i sit hunched over, or if I eat a big meal - it's like my podgy stomach (which is fatter than it should be, though I wouldn't consider myself hugely overweight, just a bit podgy :)) is pushing up into my chest and stopping my heart beating properly. I read somewhere that pressure onto the diaphram might do this... has anyone else had the same thing? It's got me a bit scared that just pushing myself in the wrong way can make this happen - though I guess I know deep down that they won't kill me. [8)]
Thanks everyone,
Nick.
I've been reading the forums here for a while, and I posted a couple of times last summer. I started having bad panic attacks last May. They've pretty much gone away now - though I do still have what I'd call a 'low level' of anxiety... It's always there bubbling away and comes back as soon as something makes me feel uncomfortable.
One of the biggest scares is ectopics. I started getting them a while after having my first panic attack - just randomly out of the blue like a 'thump' in my chest, and what seemed like my heart flushing into my stomach, literally like a toilet flush in my chest!
I only used to get them one at a time, maybe once every few weeks. Lately I've had them more often (sometimes a couple of times a day) and in groups of three or four.
They seem related to my stomach - if I move suddenly, or if i sit hunched over, or if I eat a big meal - it's like my podgy stomach (which is fatter than it should be, though I wouldn't consider myself hugely overweight, just a bit podgy :)) is pushing up into my chest and stopping my heart beating properly. I read somewhere that pressure onto the diaphram might do this... has anyone else had the same thing? It's got me a bit scared that just pushing myself in the wrong way can make this happen - though I guess I know deep down that they won't kill me. [8)]
Thanks everyone,
Nick.