Re: Wrists and fingers totally seized like claws, so scary. Has anyone else had this?
This happened to me during a really bad panic attack and was the most frightening thing I have ever experienced. I had the claw hand thing and my jaw also went into spasm. I truly thought I was having a stroke and was paralysed.
It did eventually pass and my doctor confirmed it can sometimes happen during a prolonged panic attack due to severe hyperventilation. This then causes you to have very low levels of carbon dioxide in your body and the you get the tetany spasms. The doctor really put my mind at rest and I was able to rationalise it the next time it happened.
I hope you are able to rationalise if this happens to you again (and I hope it doesn't!) the faster you can control your breathing the less likely it is to happen.
Kitti
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