Re: Significant episode - ambulance called
Originally Posted by
jayke
Hi folks. I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder, and I often feel air hunger (my thinking is that surely my air hunger causes this). I experience missed and skipped beats often and have done for over 20 years. Every six months or so I have an episode which results in a panic attack. The only way to describe this is that my heart feels like it's fluttering deep in my chest and it feel congested, and then feels like it's stopped, at which point I feel like the world closes in and I'm about to pass out. I don't feel faint as such, but feel my head getting stuffy. I don't have pain or feel breathlessness. It is terrifying. I then get an adrenaline dump and feel shaky. The ambulance came and checked me over. All okay. Clearly not okay. Have you experienced anything like this?
The paramedics went one further with me an trundled me off to A & E at 5 in the morning on account of my heart being stuck at 145 bpm and it doing a breakdance during two ECGs. There was no time to change out of my tea-stained dressing gown and reindeer slippers (even though it was February)
Eventually a very bored looking doctor diagnosed a panic attack, gave me a betablocker (and a prescription for some more) and told me to go home and see my GP in a week.
No heart issues - 'just' anxiety.
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