Panic attacks - anyone suffer?

Oh, that reminded me to take the cod liver oil/ brb.

Sanatogen, FTW!

Saw the doc today. He says it was a panic attack and the fact that I recovered pretty quickly doesn't mean it wasn't.

Suggested keeping paper bag handy and if they occur more often or paper bag doesn't do any good to go back n see him again.

He reckoned if it was a caffeine thing then I'd be having palpatations so that's all good.

glad to hear nothing more serious

I am doing a little research on panic attacks and anxiety and came across this website. I find it very complete and also very positive.
http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/

^ Thanks, some good stuff in there.

I'd developed an intolerance to caffeine... Nine months of suffering was over as soon as I stopped drinking tea, coffee and Coke...That's when they found out about the caffeine allergy...

That is fascinating.

Ive had one episode in my life, but it was just due to extreme stress of an impossibly awful situation combined with a little paranoia.
I ended up properly hyperventilating and even hallucinating. It was not drug induced either. It was when I was 17 or 18.

I had a baaaad panic attack today. It started when I got up this morning but the full tsunami of it only hit me while I was sitting a mat doing yoga of all things. Having managed to stave off my anxiety about various issues for most of this week, it suddenly all came tumbling in.

While everyone else was stretching, humming and waving their hands in the air, all I could do was lie down flat and try to regain control of my breathing.
I was already at the stage of having palpitations, muscle seizure, cold sweats etc. and my eyes wouldn't focus.

God, when I haven't had one for a while, I forget how terrifying attacks are. Glad I sat with it though, and didn't leave yoga, otherwise next week I probably wouldn't have been able to even start the class for the fear of having an attack.

That's a good result. Well done.

Thanks Oliver :)

My friends and I all suffered the fear in Uni when the excessive weed smoking took it's toll. We all then had bouts of panic attacks in our mid twenties, for me it was hangover + tube = freaking the fuck out.

All I can say is we got older and it stopped, personally I just grew more at ease with myself and my place in the world and stopped worrying.

Miss mouse - were you at the yoga for cyclists this evening at Bodywise?

Ha - no I wasn't. Was it good?

I'm glad you've managed to sort yourself out btw :)

The yoga was good thanks, my hamstrings are going to kill tomorrow.

Re the panic attacks, I haven't thought about them in years, it's like it happened to someone else although I remember being surprised how many of my friends had also experienced the same problem. One guy took beta blockers which helped, I guess he just phased them out.

At that time I went through something truly sad with a friend and i guess it changed my perspective on life - I simply figured there was nothing worth panicking about in the bigger scheme and that was enough to gag the little voice in my head that would escalate an attack. Quitting smoking, exercise, healthy eating and porn all helped too.

Just came across this article on social anxiety: http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/commentisfree/2012/mar/15/social-anxiety-secret-struggle

Used to have them all of the time, but not so bad though. I get weird 3am ones now that wake me up in a state.

Nothing like it used to be, mind.

Chalk up another Lansoprazole user.