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health advisory Hospital Health advisory 2007-11-16 5:20:33

Answer:

i've totally been there.

one of the symtoms of panic attacks is heart arythmia and palpitations. Basically meaning your heart jumps, races, and feels tight. Adrenaline gets pushed into your system and you feel like you are in an emergency, or panic.

Also, typically your breathing is shallow and so your chest feels tight.

I highly recommend going to your local big bookstore and buying a handful of books on panic and anxiety that you can read through. It really helped me to find out that all my symptoms that made me feel like i was one foot in the grave and about to die were easily attributed to my panic. It doens't fix it, but it gives you some more amunition and logic to talk yourself out of it. The books will also have more coping mechanisms and resources to help you.

And if you can, spoil yourself, go to your doctor, tell them about your panic attacks and ask if they can give you a full physical to give you a fresh healthy place to start from.

I ended up in the ER a bunch of times with heart palpitaions, had ekgs done, I went through it, and the doctors did with me.

It took a few months to get a hold of myself, and a few years to feel like i really had them in control, and i still have my moments, but i'm ok.

You can do it.

And don't rush to medicate yourself. Obviously something in your head wants you to pay attention to it and work it out - your body is talking to you - so try and deal with it yourself, step by step, before rushing to the easy out and treating the smptoms with a drug, without actually dealing with the problem! Or problems for that matter! The world is scary, people can be awful, and we all have to make the best of it. You'll be best equipped to deal with whatever life throws at you if you master this yourself. Our generation is so overmedicated - its really frightening! And if you find you can't, or feel like youare in danger, talk to a doc about other options as a last resort.

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Because your adrenal glands just dumped a ton of adrenalin into your bloodstream and it is making your heart beat hard. It will go away just think about something else - anything else for 10 minutes...

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maybe u have an irregular heart beat? go to ur doctor, it could be serious

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palpitations

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