Panic Attacks Support Group

A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, and sensations of choking or smothering. Panic attacks can be very sudden, appear to be unprovoked, and are often...

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dks07
dks07
i'm starting to freak out a bit.. about 4 hours ago i started feeling anxious and now i jus feel horrible i feel like i can't breath constantly checking my pulse to make sure my heart is beating and yawning like crazy to get a deep breath... someone please assure me i'll be okay... :'( i havn't felt like this in a while and this month has jus been hell
deleted_user
deleted_user
This exact thing and feelings happens to me alot- last night for example- I am with you - thinking of you - and knowing that you are okay and strong- this to shall passand you will b stronger for it- Andrea
deleted_user
deleted_user
when i use to get panic attacks, i got the same feeling. i felt like i couldn't get air in my lungs and i was dying. they would come out of no where. i learned a trick...if someone is home, say talk to me...you will eventually consentrate on what they are saying, you might be gasping for air in the begining, but eventually, it will subside. you will be shaking, but you will start breathing normally, and the panic attack will slowly go away. if know one is home, call someone, even if its 3 a.m. in the morning.
p.s. my doctor told me, you will never die from a anxiety or a panic attack, the worst thing that can happen is you could pass out for a couple of seconds, but you will wake up..feeling normal. i know how horrible they are, i have been there, mine finally went away. touch wood., but i still have anxiety, and now i got agorphobia. also, chew a nerve pill as soon as you feel one coming on, if you chew it, it will get in your sys
tem quicker and drink warm to hot water. stay strong.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hi Ronna, Just to let you know, its better not to chew pills unless they are chewable--some of them have coatings that are designed to protect the medication from stomach acids. If you chew the pills they won't work the same or even at all in some cases. Also you don't want to have pieces of the pill getting stuck in your teeth. You can safely dissolve some pills under the tongue, but check with the pharmacist to be sure that the medication you take can be used this way.

The makers of Klonopin, for instance, have developed a wafer that is designed specifically to be dissolved under the tongue--they purposely developed this formulation of the medication so that people wouldn't put the regular klonopin under the tongue. The wafers work much better than the other form of medicine under the tongue.
deleted_user
deleted_user
oh t.y. shinking, i'm sorry dks07, i use to do that, but that was years ago when i got panic attacks. i'm glad shinking knew aout this, i gave you wrong info. that was the nerve pill i was chewing. it was yucky, but i was so desparate to get it in my system. you learn something new everyday. God Bless All.