Panic attacks

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hart

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Hey any of you folks get them? i do occasionally and they suck big time. I've been having them the last few days, last nite I finally took a pill I have prescribed. The b*tch of it is, I don't know why I am having them now. Work is not stressful, hell I just got a great job appraisal. Money isn't too tight and I even was drinking some, which usually I don't have them then.

I hate them! They are illogical, demoralizing....at least they aren't fattening ;)
 
I'm glad for you. I can't preclude them but if they are minor I can still work with them when they keep coming one after another I can't and that's what's happening the last two days. It pisses me off, which is what I'd rather feel that dread
 
I've never really had a panic attack so to speak.

I have felt overwhelmed when in crowds and therefore avoid them at all costs.

A lot of people have things happen to them emotionally and physically during the holidays. Maybe you just aren't aware of the exact reason.... just yet.
 
I have them sometimes. Once I finally get to where I can breathe again, I can feel round two coming on. It really sucks, and it's absolutely terrifying. I had one just a couple weeks back actually; Matt had to come home early from work and one of the ladies from here called me and helped me stay calm.

One thing I've read that makes the most sense to me is to keep repeating "No one has ever died from a panic attack." I don't know about you, but my biggest fear is suffocation, to put it broadly. When it gets to where I really can't breathe and I'm past hyperventilating, I do feel like I might not make it through the attack. I've never had enough sense about me to say that to myself during an attack, but if I could, I'm sure it would help.

Start keeping a journal and whenever you have them, write out what's happened the few days prior, what you've been doing, that sort of thing.

Mine come around when I start crying. I can't cry and breathe and then I panic because I can't breathe and then I have a panic attack and cry even harder and struggle even more to breathe, and freak out even more... it's a vicious cycle.
 
I don't get panic attacks hardly anymore. They load me up with enough Xanax to knock anyones nerves down a notch ot 2. ;) If I know I'm going to be going somewhere that is going to stress me I will take a PRN before I leave the house. Things seem to be working very well with mine since my Xanax were upped. I have lots of xtras though LOL!
 
I used to get them a lot. There was really no rhyme or reason to them. I was on meds as well. I would get such huge pains in my chest when I'd have them so what I would do is fill a two liter soda bottle with super hot water and just lay it on my chest and for some odd reason it helped.
 
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