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...
several mambers have complained of this, I found the info below on the net, suggesting the problem is from a sleep disorder such as sleep apnea
of course its also possibe to have both panic disorder and sleep apnea( OSA)
But there are many more patients who are not diagnosed with OSA that still suffer from these similar effects. These are the patients I most often see in my practice suffering from a milder form of OSA called Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome or UARS.
Similar to OSA patients, UARS patients also wake up multiple times while sleeping because they stop breathing. Although these episodes are brief and not really noticed by these patients, these breathing cessations can still be significant happening 5 to 25 times an hour and lasting anywhere from 1 to 9 seconds each time they stop breathing.
Its true that every once in a while, patients suffering from UARS will obstruct completely and wake up gasping for air, with their heart beating and in a cold sweat. Yet, these episodes are dismissed as "panic attacks" and not really explored for symptoms of a sleep breathing problem.
Instead, multiple arousals like this eventually leads to a chronic state of stress and sympathetic nervous system overactivity (fight or flight response). This is a physiologic form of stress. Various neurologic, hormonal and biochemical changes cam occur, leading to certain predictable events like: high blood pressure, cold hands and feet, chronic nasal congestion or a runny nose, chronic gastrointestinal problems, bladder problems, weight gain, and many others. Typically these patients also exhibit many of the symptoms and signs of a "routine" ear, nose and throat problem, like chronic sinusitis, frequent ear infections, and even nasal allergies.
interesting, I still have freezing cold hands and feet
of course its also possibe to have both panic disorder and sleep apnea( OSA)
But there are many more patients who are not diagnosed with OSA that still suffer from these similar effects. These are the patients I most often see in my practice suffering from a milder form of OSA called Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome or UARS.
Similar to OSA patients, UARS patients also wake up multiple times while sleeping because they stop breathing. Although these episodes are brief and not really noticed by these patients, these breathing cessations can still be significant happening 5 to 25 times an hour and lasting anywhere from 1 to 9 seconds each time they stop breathing.
Its true that every once in a while, patients suffering from UARS will obstruct completely and wake up gasping for air, with their heart beating and in a cold sweat. Yet, these episodes are dismissed as "panic attacks" and not really explored for symptoms of a sleep breathing problem.
Instead, multiple arousals like this eventually leads to a chronic state of stress and sympathetic nervous system overactivity (fight or flight response). This is a physiologic form of stress. Various neurologic, hormonal and biochemical changes cam occur, leading to certain predictable events like: high blood pressure, cold hands and feet, chronic nasal congestion or a runny nose, chronic gastrointestinal problems, bladder problems, weight gain, and many others. Typically these patients also exhibit many of the symptoms and signs of a "routine" ear, nose and throat problem, like chronic sinusitis, frequent ear infections, and even nasal allergies.
interesting, I still have freezing cold hands and feet
deleted_user
thanks for sharing - I would have never thought of it......I have been having it a bit like that more and more lately - so this info is helpful
Join the Conversation
-
My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...