louise123_uk
19-12-16, 23:14
For the last couple of years maybe two or three times a month I have had episodes where I sit bolt upright in the middle of the night taking gasps of air, it sounds pretty much like when you take a drink and it goes down the wrong way and you breathe before you realise what you've done and its almost like a heaving sound and you have to cough. It feels like I'm choking on something, I take three or four wracking gasps of air and then I can breathe normally. My heart is usually racing afterwards as it is TERRIFYING!! I really feel like I'm dying.
Sometimes its accompanied with a feeling of having no idea where I am, and I will rip open my curtains and not even recognise my own back garden or street, or even my own bedroom for maybe 30seconds. Once I didn't even know who my boyfriend was! So this also makes me panic I'm losing my mind or that this is the start of dementia!
I can go for months without it happening or during some months I can have it a couple of times a week. It usually only happens once in the night.
I've somehow managed to push thoughts of this out of my head but for some reason tonight I can't stop thinking about it! It last happened two nights ago and I'm terrified to go to bed tonight as I've been reading it could be related to heart failure!!! Over the last 6 months or so I have posted about episodes of dizziness feeling like I'm on a boat and sometimes feelin like can't breathe when I'm awake but these symptoms have subsided for the moment quite a bit.
Could I actually die from something like this? I'm terrified it will happen and I won't actually be able to get my breath or perhaps I won't wake up at all!
Does anyone else get this and has had a doc say its nothing or just one of those things?
I'm 33, not overweight and don't smoke. I do drink alcohol regularly though which it worries me it could be related to with all the scary adverts you see showing how much alcohol is related to!
I need to get a good night sleep for work but don't want to get in to bed :weep:
Sometimes its accompanied with a feeling of having no idea where I am, and I will rip open my curtains and not even recognise my own back garden or street, or even my own bedroom for maybe 30seconds. Once I didn't even know who my boyfriend was! So this also makes me panic I'm losing my mind or that this is the start of dementia!
I can go for months without it happening or during some months I can have it a couple of times a week. It usually only happens once in the night.
I've somehow managed to push thoughts of this out of my head but for some reason tonight I can't stop thinking about it! It last happened two nights ago and I'm terrified to go to bed tonight as I've been reading it could be related to heart failure!!! Over the last 6 months or so I have posted about episodes of dizziness feeling like I'm on a boat and sometimes feelin like can't breathe when I'm awake but these symptoms have subsided for the moment quite a bit.
Could I actually die from something like this? I'm terrified it will happen and I won't actually be able to get my breath or perhaps I won't wake up at all!
Does anyone else get this and has had a doc say its nothing or just one of those things?
I'm 33, not overweight and don't smoke. I do drink alcohol regularly though which it worries me it could be related to with all the scary adverts you see showing how much alcohol is related to!
I need to get a good night sleep for work but don't want to get in to bed :weep: