Could they be a panic attack?

RE: Could they be a panic attack?

What does your doctor say it is?

My thoughts are that you are suffering stress and anxiety with the associated high cortisol levels, but not yet full-blown panic attacks. What's going on in your life right now? What's been happening over, say, the last 6 months? Something needs to give.

In the meantime, a coping mechanism. Next time you feel short-tempered or your heartbeat starting to race, or as you're lying in bed with your mind (and heart) racing, try some 7/11 breathing - breathe in to the count of 7 (how fast or slow is up to you and your lung capacity!) hold it for 1 second then breathe out to the count of 11. Keep breathing like this for a few minutes and you'll find yourself relaxing - this is the natural breathing pattern of the relaxed person and your body has no choice but to respond to the breathing pattern. Try it - you'll be pleasantly surprised!

RE: Could they be a panic attack?

To me this sounds like classic symptoms of low thiamine (vit B1). I get funny palpatations when I am eating badly and stressed - and I also become exhausted in the morning, and bad tempered. I've also had my heart checked out by GP and it wasn't anything to worry about. I now add a 50mg supplement of B1 (I buy 100mg from H&B, and break it in half) to my supplement regime - and take that when I get the palpatations + exhaustion + temper, and drop it when they stop.

Do web-search for thiamine and any of your symptoms - and based on what you find decide if it is something you want to try. If you do you should take a B complex supplement along with it - because you shouldn't really take individual B vitamins (unless your nutritionist advises it).

Good luck!

RE: Could they be a panic attack?

Thanks will have a go Clareyangel xxxxxxxxxx

RE: Could they be a panic attack?

Hi Clareyangel!

I posted this link for someone else on the forums who was worried about asthma and hayfever, but I think maybe it can help you to calm yourself and regulate your heartbeat.

Its a breathing Technique and it can help a menagerie of complaints.
See my article posted in the American Chronicle and a link to my webpage on Buteyko Breathing where I briefly mention sleeping postions and breathing exercises.
[link= http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=25790 ]http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=25790[/link]

The book, Breathing Free by Teresa Hale covers over 100 health problems and how the Buteyko Breathing can help. As I added in the other post, you may be able to get it in your library, if not, look for the subject under other authors because this book was published in London.
[link= http://www.highbloodpressureinfo.org/buteyko-breathing.html ]http://www.highbloodpressureinfo.org/buteyko-breathing.html[/link]

RE: Could they be a panic attack?

Hi Gembow
Thank you for your post, i also have asthma and hayfever so helps with that too, i am feeling better, think mine is stress related as had tests and all normal , but thank you i shall read and do .
Clareyangel xxxxxxx

RE: Could they be a panic attack?

Hey dont panic,

i suffer from panic attacks and i had everything that u are experiencing this time last year. i was at the hospital for palpitations! they placed a heart monitor on me for 24 hours and believe it or not i had not one that very day!

i felt like my heart was going to come out through my chest. this is all anxiety that you are experiencing, trust me.
you will be so frightened you probably even think you are going to die! u wont!
U have to learn to control what u are feeling at the moment, that is the only way that u will get past these symptoms. my doctor told me this, he tried to reassure me, i thought to myself, this guy must think im nuts! he told me the symptoms that i was experiencing were very real! and within time, if i ever felt my heart racing again. i had to take deep breaths and relax.

you only hear and feel your heart beat so hard because your hole point of focus is on your heart beating. when you sit normally you cant feel it beating, we arent meant to feel it beating.

Try breathing exercises when u feel somethin like this coming on again.
It sounds so much like panic attacks, the medical fact is with anxiety and panic attacks, YOU WILL NOT DIE. the worst thing that will happen, which rarely does is that u will faint!

it took me a long time to realise this was true!
sure i still take them from time to time, but not half as bad as i used too. this is all down to self control!

i wish u well.
😉
Lisa