panic attacks and anxiety

[toty]

hi

i went shopping with my 16 year old daughter, i have adenomoysis,i had a complete panic attack and burst into tears ,this happens quite often, but my daughter had nt witnessed it.does any one else have these complete emotional break downs, it is so difficult to hold my self together,Help?

[Impatient]

Do get your blood pressure checked out - because panic attacks are real and will happen when your bood pressure soars through the roof. You can buy a home testing gadget for your BP and they cost about £30 so you can keep an eye on it both at rest and after activity so you can have some idea what you readings should be on average and hopefully spot when they begin to go up. You can use the gadget on other members of the family too to keep an eye on everyones heart health so they do work out very good value for money and a lot more convenient than popping in to see the GP each time you start feeling symptoms.

Cutting out all caffeine yes ALL of it - coffee, tea, all the fizzy pop, alcohol too etc will help a great deal - stick to water and soups instead and your BP will come down naturally. But you can also seek the help of the GP to check for any underlying causes why your blood pressure is going haywire. Beta Blockers can help calm it down.

Sometimes switching to water and then taking tablets to rid you of excess fluids is enough to bring down the BP too

My mum has a water tablet a day and that seem to have done the trick. Keeps her BP at normal.

130/80 is average anything just below is fine but anything over140/90 is too high.

It is very scary to have a panic attack out of the blue and yet for most people simple change in lifestyle choices will solve the problem.

I used to be a diet coke fiend, my BP shot up in my early 30s, partly due to work and disciplinary meetings stress and I was getting panic attacks mostly at night for some reason, when i was dropping off to sleep. I quit the fizzy pops completely because of that and it had the additional bonus of really helping with my IBS/endo pains too. I hadn't thought there would be a connection but there certainly was and these days I really regret even having a small glass of coke or diet coke as it has me in agony soon after.

Takes a bit of getting used to a rather bland diet of water or soup but you do feel so much better once you get used to it.

I was getting them when i was on zoladex too, along with all sorts of other side effects cause by soaring BP. That was drug induced and it did return to normal when i quit the zoladex.

it would be much better to avoid having them at all rather than looking for ways to handle it better when they do happen.

Look up hypertension and natural ways to resolve that by diet and actvity. It really does make a huge difference to you, to bring the BP back down. Very best of luck.