Panic attack or real?!!

[Rabbithole720]

While at work on Tuesday I felt this anxiety feeling in my stomach I walked away changed the scenery then I started feeling this internal shaking in my head and felt like crushing pressure down on my head. I would feel nauseous and my legs felt like they were gonna give out. It continued over and over again for 2 hours I couldn’t get rid of the feeling I left work and went home and laid down. I’ve never had that before I’ve suffered with panic attacks for 6 years now. But when I feel physical symptoms it sets me off into a panic. I keep thinking something is wrong with me and I should go to drs. But I can’t tell anymore what’s real. Please helpppp

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Hello Rabbithole720 & Welcome

It is very quite on this site and is the only reason you are not getting replies it is nothing personal , I hope you will know that as when we first post it can be so disheartening when no one pops on and offers a friendly ear

There are many Communities on Health Unlocked for anxiety and you can be a member of more than one so maybe that is something else you might want to look at especially if you are looking for feedback

But now to your experience , I do understand , I have what you call normal panic attacks and then out of the blue I will get something I have never experienced before , sometimes it does not help if I have a low sugar level drop which can happen and feel like a panic attack but slightly different , this is what could have possibly happened to you but the more we focus on it the more we feed the anxiety and the symptoms feel worse as well as the experience

If it were me I would try and push it t the back of my mind and if it kept happening then just let the Doctor check your blood pressure maybe or at least explain to them what occurred , I am sure they would find nothing wrong but it gives you peace of mind if nothing else but this experience may never happen again and just as we say a one off

Hope you are feeling a lot better now then when you posted

Take Care x

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Hi and wanted to say welcome to you.

Good wishes and hope you find it helpful here 🌺🌺

[Miniwheats]

Hi Rabbithole. Sorry to read that you experienced this, especially since your symptoms are different from your previous attacks that you have had. All I can do is tell you that my panic attacks weren't always the same. My various symptoms during an attack had been: nausea, feeling faint, rapid heartbeat, pressure in the ears, feeling like I'm watching a movie but only catching every fourth or fifth frame, shortness of breath, tingling, feeling like I'm losing my mind, pressure in the chest, heart palpitations, derealization, numbness/stiffness of hands and feet, buzzing in the head, visual disturbances where buildings seem to be moving in a wave-like motion, dizziness, feeling like I'm suddenly in motion moving sideways, and imbalance. I get weird head vibration/shaking at night almost every time I wake up, but not at any other time (and I'm totally calm when this happens). Head MRI was totally normal and everything else has been ruled out and I've only ever had minor health issues in the past. I had the "royal workup" to sort out these symptoms and everything came back normal.An ENT physician once told me "any symptom can be caused by anxiety" and I'm starting to believe it. I've also read that trying to compare your own symptoms with someone else's in the hopes of reassuring yourself that it's only anxiety is pointless because there are so many different physical manifestations beyond the typical ones you hear about. Having said that though, I experienced great relief when a member of this forum was kind enough to return months later to a previous post he wrote about his nocturnal shaking (which sounded alot like mine) to let us know that the doctors never did find anything wrong with him and that they eventually went away once he got his anxiety under control.

[Rabbithole720 in reply to Miniwheats]

Thank you for your reply!!! The internal shaking has been driving me crazy lately bc it’s all I think about now.. which is usually how my anxiety works.. I get so obsessed with a symptom it will be so bad until I just get used to it and realize I’m not dying. I get the nocturnal shaking too. I always assumed that was my anxiety. It boggles me that all this crazy things can happen to your body and not be anything but anxiety!!

[Miniwheats in reply to Rabbithole720]

Indeed. Anxiety definitely plays mind games with you. I forgot to mention I had / have internal shaky feelings when I move that just disappear when I don't pay attention to them anymore. My explanation is that in my heightened state of vigilance and anxiety (my fear was that I was developing Parkinson's) I was picking up on and magnifying physiologic tremor that has always been there at baseline. And then of course this creates more anxiety which then actually increases this natural form of tremor, which then increases my anxiety and you can see how this becomes a viscous circle. My therapist had me do a two week "experiment" to see what would happen if I just chalked all my symptoms up to anxiety and report my findings back to her. To my surprise everything but the nocturnal tremors disappeared and only reappeared after I caught myself not noticing them anymore! 🤔

[Rabbithole720]

I like that idea! It’s so relieving that someone else has had this too.. I’m always stuck on MS bc of my numbness and tingling everywhere. Even tho I have had 2cts and 2 mris on the brain all negative 😑