sammykaye
27-06-13, 00:18
Hi All
I'm new to the forums and didnt realise panic attacks had such a variety of symptoms
I started getting panic attacks when I was 15 years old, I had learnt to live with them to a degree but they still knocked me for six. Up until last year the symptoms I had were
* uncontrollable body shakes
* palpitations
* sweats
* nausea
* dry mouth
* feeling my throat was closing
* urgent desire to use the bathroom
I eventually learnt to control them or talk myself through them because I knew they were coming, just how bad they could get and how to stop them.
but the last month or so I have had chest tightness which in honesty I thought my bra was too tight! so remedied that but it didnt help, then the week before last I was sent home from work with a suspected virus (all the symptoms listed below to the point I was so scared I sat crying in the work canteen), then Sunday just gone I had the same symptoms
* tightness in my chest
* felt like I was having difficulty breathing
* light headed ness
* body felt heavy
* heavy legs
* arms went numb from the elbow down
* dry mouth
* sense of doom
* needing the toilet
Should add I stuck it out though, no crying and with plenty of distractions and deep breathing and finished the other 4 hours of my shift perfectly happy!
Then today I have been out with my sister all day and basically eaten junk all day, (crisps, chocolate and a fizzy drink) I came home and was so tired that I fell asleep on the sofa for an hour and it was hard to wake up because I was so lethargic and felt heavy,
Then when walking my son home from school, we have to go up a flight of stairs to cross the road and had a sudden sensation of my legs feeling heavy, like it was a real effort to get myself to walk (like I was walking through mud) and then the tight chest came on and lightheadedness, so I had to stop and sit on a wall for two minutes whilst my son told me about his day and it helped to calm me down
So I think my attacks have manifested themselves into a new fear or way of showing it since the last lot didnt get a reaction and these symptoms freak me out and scare me.
Has anyone elses panic attacks done this or had a new symptom appear? can they even do that?
x
I'm new to the forums and didnt realise panic attacks had such a variety of symptoms
I started getting panic attacks when I was 15 years old, I had learnt to live with them to a degree but they still knocked me for six. Up until last year the symptoms I had were
* uncontrollable body shakes
* palpitations
* sweats
* nausea
* dry mouth
* feeling my throat was closing
* urgent desire to use the bathroom
I eventually learnt to control them or talk myself through them because I knew they were coming, just how bad they could get and how to stop them.
but the last month or so I have had chest tightness which in honesty I thought my bra was too tight! so remedied that but it didnt help, then the week before last I was sent home from work with a suspected virus (all the symptoms listed below to the point I was so scared I sat crying in the work canteen), then Sunday just gone I had the same symptoms
* tightness in my chest
* felt like I was having difficulty breathing
* light headed ness
* body felt heavy
* heavy legs
* arms went numb from the elbow down
* dry mouth
* sense of doom
* needing the toilet
Should add I stuck it out though, no crying and with plenty of distractions and deep breathing and finished the other 4 hours of my shift perfectly happy!
Then today I have been out with my sister all day and basically eaten junk all day, (crisps, chocolate and a fizzy drink) I came home and was so tired that I fell asleep on the sofa for an hour and it was hard to wake up because I was so lethargic and felt heavy,
Then when walking my son home from school, we have to go up a flight of stairs to cross the road and had a sudden sensation of my legs feeling heavy, like it was a real effort to get myself to walk (like I was walking through mud) and then the tight chest came on and lightheadedness, so I had to stop and sit on a wall for two minutes whilst my son told me about his day and it helped to calm me down
So I think my attacks have manifested themselves into a new fear or way of showing it since the last lot didnt get a reaction and these symptoms freak me out and scare me.
Has anyone elses panic attacks done this or had a new symptom appear? can they even do that?
x