panic attacks
 

anyone had one?

dont make me think of that or i'll panic

My buddy Ted had one while driving. He related the story to me, it sounded pretty dreadful.

I get them from time to time.

There has been times where my heart would start racing like a mile a minute and just wouldnt stop. I'd try deep breaths and stuff to relax, and that would help a bit. Once I almost felt like calling a doctor.

Since I started doing more cardio vascular exercise, I havent had a problem like that.

yeah, what you described is pretty much what happened to me about 30 minutes ago. never experienced it before. not fun.

I used to get them really bad.
Not fun at all.

One time I was kinda buzzed and I accidentally put my bowl of french onion soup in the microwave with a metal spoon in it. It was in there for a minute or so when I realized what I had done. I opened the door of the microwave and smelt a very odd musty odor. I instantly felt really light headed/weird and immediately felt like I was poisoned. My heart was pumping and I felt like calling Poison Control Center. I even took the dog out of the house into the backyard. I was fucking trippin'. After the ordeal I realized that this was a panic attack. Not fun.

I worked in mental health for along time. Do a search on it Quiet. They are very scary. You feel as if you are dying. There is treatment for it. You really need to get looked at, just to make sure there is not something else going on. Stress & holidays can bring on a panic attack.

quiet - see a Dr. and make sure it's not something else. I had a relative that thought he had a panic attack.. turned out he was diabetic and didn't know it.

Yea, my friend gets panic attacks. She went to the doctor recently and was diagnosed with acute stress disorder.

when I compare this months sales stats with this months bandwith usage. I think I'm gonna have one :2 cents:

Tony Soprano gets them ocassionally

Damn, I gotta watch that sunday night, thanks for reminding me:Graucho

i've had them. they are a pain in the ass. come out of nowhere.

which is why i wasn't even diagnosed with them for 5 years.

doctors couldn't find out why I was having recurring dizziness, did all the brain scans even went to a special dizzy clinic where they strap you in some machine and spin ya around upside down.

Panic attacks, or anxiety disorder as the doctors call it, can be treated well now. The thing is to catch them early and get on a good medication. The longer you have them the worse it will be because you will pick up phobias because you will associate certain things with causing a panic attack. Avoidance behaviour.


I still don't fly because of them. I had no fear of flying before i got my first panic attack. And i'm still not afraid of flying itself. It's
that i've had three or four absolute nightmares flying. When you're trapped in an airplane for 7 hours and you start having a panic attack about 15 minutes in............... NIGHTMARE!!!

It's definitely not a 'crazy' disease. It is biochemical, lots of research going on into it. But i think there is a psychological component to it, certain personality things that are a clue that you might one day start getting them. When I was young I always had to sit on the aisle of a movie theater, bus, etc. I needed to know i had some kind of control of wherever i was.

Here's another thing about panic attacks. Marijuana is a trigger.
I think that's how mine got started but i wasn't aware of it at the time because I didn't know what was going on.

good luck with them quiet. don't delay getting to a good doctor and if they want you to try a medication don't fight it.

I am the worst, i was on some medication for them for like three years, was doing great, so i threw the medication away, 4 months later WHAM! WHAM!

I don't know if they were panic attacks, but definitely similar symptoms. I would get up in the morning and go to the can. After sitting there a couple minutes I would start to feel dizzy and get really hot and clammy, the bathroom would start spinning and everything would start getting blurry. I kept my eyes wide open, yet everything went black. Creepy as hell.

I passed out a couple times from that. Hasn't happened to me in a couple years, I think my problem was getting up too quickly and the blood in my head wasn't right, or whatever. Fuck if I know.

My brother started having panic attacks in high school and over the years it's turned into obession compulsive disorder. It's been going on for over 10 years now. He can't even go to the grocery store because he can't stand to be in lines for fear of getting an attack. I won't depress everyone with how bad it really is, but do take care of it or it can turn very very bad. I see it first hand every single day.

Sounds like low blood sugar

fuck... I sure hope i am in your will. :(

j/k.. dont take it in a bad way.. just a lil pimdog humor.

Once I was having sex with this married friend when her husband (a drill sergeant who knew about 500 ways to kill someone) walked in the front door. He just saw my ass going out the bedroom window, so he killed her instead of me. Close one. I really had a panic attack that time. I'll have another one when he's released from prison.

Is that common? Something I should have gotten checked out? My brother was just diagnosed with diabetes a couple months ago, I don't have any of those symptoms though, I don't believe so anyway...

Uh, yeah, I get one everytime I check my Nasty Dollars stats.

:helpme :stoned

BTW... Mutt - Would you happen to have ICQ? I wanna talk about what we talked about earlier. If not, just email me again.

Quiet - Read this thread.

http://gofuckyourself.com/showthread...hlight=anxiety

Hope it helps.

Yes, I would definitely get checked. I found out I had diabetes when i was pregnant :( Its not something to fuck around with, it can trash your kidneys and eyes quick. My blood sugar will go high and low. The lowest mine was , was 30 (I almost went into a coma. You need to eat something when you first get up. like peanuts, glass of milk, something with protein. Drinking can really mess with you too. There is alot of sugar in alcohol.

this is why quiet if you have just started having them you have to take care of it immediately. Depending on how bad the attacks are and how scary they are people like Houdini's brother will go to any lengths to avoid getting another one.

A lot of people get in other trouble by self medicating themselves with alcohol. Lots of alcoholics are people who have underlying anxiety disorder.

yes. I used to get them pretty bad - frozen black terror.. very stress related.. dizzy spells too.

sorry Ganga i missed your post. i just read your email now.
i'll ICQ you now.

I used to have them chronically while driving, stuck in traffic or while crossing big bridges.

I had a really nasty one while driving across the Golden Gate bridge once. The sensation of losing control and disassociation while driving across a 6 lane bridge several hundred feet above the SF Bay at 60mph was probably one of the most petrifying experiences of my life.

As others have said, self medicating with alcohol is very common because you lose your anxiety while drinking in the same way you lose certain inhibitions. If you are having them, get thee to a psychiatrist ASAP. They have drugs which control anxiety/panic disorders very well these days.

I totally can see that happening. Do you have any info that I can read up on this? Thanks Mutt.

I get them sometimes as well.

xanax :thumbsup

i have had them for a long time.

a loooong time.

:glugglug

not happened to me yet, thank goodness.

Quiet, why do you think you got one? I mean what triggered it?
Just out of the blue?

I watched one of my ex-wives have one, and an ex-girlfriend have one. Must be some weird effect I have on women.

Have to say, it was something that I won't forget, but I guess I always thought it was a chick thing, you know how mental they get sometimes.

I was really high once and driving in downtown LA and experienced something I thought was sample of what the real thing might be like. Don't think I would want to try one that was not drug induced.

Do a Google search on orthostatic hypotension :thumbsup

Its probably not low blood sugar. Passing out from hypoglycemia is very serious, but its obvious in that you will have a progression of unpleasant symptoms long before you actually become unconscious from it.

bunch o spazzes :winkwink:

Sometimes I think to myself.. One day I'll be dead and sort of go on a trip about that..:stoned

Don't freak me out man. :)

Like I said, haven't experienced anything like it in well over a year, close to 18 months.

when like, all of a sudden your chest feels like its about to implode, and you can't breathe? it feels like the edge of death.