joey
04-07-04, 08:23
Hope I'm posting this in the right place - I did search first, but couldn't find a match.
Anyway....please can someone help me, as I'm beside myself. I had what I think was my first panic attack about two weeks ago. I introduced myself here, and got lots of good advice. Since then, I was beginning to relax again, and think it had been a one off. It took me a couple of days to recover, but my GP had given me betablockers, and they did seem to be helping.
And then yesterday evening I had this horrible experience, which was a bit like a cross between the last time and a hot flush, but without the racing heart, and without the rush of heat. I guess the lack of racing heart may be down to the beta blockers, as I can't even raise my heart rate much during exercise since I started them. It started with this sort of "surge" feeling, that seemed to be focused in the back of my neck and head, and I could feel my pulse pounding (though not racing), in my head and my chest. Well, all over in fact. I felt a bit tingly and warm (but without the blush that I usually get with a hot flush), then after I was freezing. I had this overwhelming feeling that I was going to die, and I felt like I wanted to run out of the house. My blood pressure, which has settled at about 105/73 since the last one, shot up to 180/120, although it fell back down to 130/90 fairly quickly (by the next time I checked it, 10 mins later), and is now back down low again. I've felt trembly and shaky all night, I've felt sick, and I've had diarrhoea. My head feels muzzy still, and at the time I didn't feel dizzy in the sense of my head spinning, but I had this funny feeling that my legs didn't quite know where the floor was, and so I might fall over, or that I might miss something if I reached towards it. I stll have this sense of being aware of pulses all over my body, which is really creepy and scary.
Does this sound like another panic attack, even though I didn't have the racing heart this time? I feel terrified to move now waiting for the next time, and I feel like I'm sitting scanning myself for symptoms all the time. I just can't understand how I could feel so ill without there being something serious physical wrong. And I can't believe really that this all appeared from nowhere. Please help. Thanks Jo
Anyway....please can someone help me, as I'm beside myself. I had what I think was my first panic attack about two weeks ago. I introduced myself here, and got lots of good advice. Since then, I was beginning to relax again, and think it had been a one off. It took me a couple of days to recover, but my GP had given me betablockers, and they did seem to be helping.
And then yesterday evening I had this horrible experience, which was a bit like a cross between the last time and a hot flush, but without the racing heart, and without the rush of heat. I guess the lack of racing heart may be down to the beta blockers, as I can't even raise my heart rate much during exercise since I started them. It started with this sort of "surge" feeling, that seemed to be focused in the back of my neck and head, and I could feel my pulse pounding (though not racing), in my head and my chest. Well, all over in fact. I felt a bit tingly and warm (but without the blush that I usually get with a hot flush), then after I was freezing. I had this overwhelming feeling that I was going to die, and I felt like I wanted to run out of the house. My blood pressure, which has settled at about 105/73 since the last one, shot up to 180/120, although it fell back down to 130/90 fairly quickly (by the next time I checked it, 10 mins later), and is now back down low again. I've felt trembly and shaky all night, I've felt sick, and I've had diarrhoea. My head feels muzzy still, and at the time I didn't feel dizzy in the sense of my head spinning, but I had this funny feeling that my legs didn't quite know where the floor was, and so I might fall over, or that I might miss something if I reached towards it. I stll have this sense of being aware of pulses all over my body, which is really creepy and scary.
Does this sound like another panic attack, even though I didn't have the racing heart this time? I feel terrified to move now waiting for the next time, and I feel like I'm sitting scanning myself for symptoms all the time. I just can't understand how I could feel so ill without there being something serious physical wrong. And I can't believe really that this all appeared from nowhere. Please help. Thanks Jo