JerJer
10-30-2010, 04:11 AM
This is my first post here. I'm a 36 year old man. I've had panic attacks every so often throughout my adult life. Maybe a few a year. But the past 3-4 weeks they are happening much more. A lot of the day I have this jittery nervousness and am scared to leave my home. I am freaked out about seeing people and talking to people. I feel engulfed in fear.
I start looking up symptoms online and one site leads to another and then another and then it makes me more nervous.
The feeling I have, is like an adrenaline panic attack rush can happen at any time. I have to control the trigger. I feel ultra sensitive.
The other day I only had 5 hours sleep. I left my home and as I'm walking outside I had a full blown massive panic attack. I completely freaked out. I felt I was going to collapse any second and I couldn't get enough air, even though I could breathe deep. I got so scared I ended up at the ER. I thought I was going to just die any second and they would have to pick me up from the ER lobby floor.
As soon as I sat down next to the doctor though, I started to calm down a bit. He took my blood pressure and gave me an EKG. Everything was normal.
The whole episode was about 2 hours. A panic attack for 2 friggin hours! It kept coming in waves. It was like for 2 hours I felt nervous and anxious, but it would get full on panic, then calm a little, then back to crazy, then calm. It was like I had lost control of heart beat and adrenal glands.
I keep thinking the doctors missed something, or what if this or what if that? I keep longing to go to a hospital but I don't know why.
I want to go to yoga class or the gym, but then I'm scared to go to the gym. All the people and equipment and then exercising makes my heart beat faster so I am scared of a heart attack.
Sorry if this post comes across as rambling. I hope some of you can give me some good advise.
Thanks a lot for reading!
I start looking up symptoms online and one site leads to another and then another and then it makes me more nervous.
The feeling I have, is like an adrenaline panic attack rush can happen at any time. I have to control the trigger. I feel ultra sensitive.
The other day I only had 5 hours sleep. I left my home and as I'm walking outside I had a full blown massive panic attack. I completely freaked out. I felt I was going to collapse any second and I couldn't get enough air, even though I could breathe deep. I got so scared I ended up at the ER. I thought I was going to just die any second and they would have to pick me up from the ER lobby floor.
As soon as I sat down next to the doctor though, I started to calm down a bit. He took my blood pressure and gave me an EKG. Everything was normal.
The whole episode was about 2 hours. A panic attack for 2 friggin hours! It kept coming in waves. It was like for 2 hours I felt nervous and anxious, but it would get full on panic, then calm a little, then back to crazy, then calm. It was like I had lost control of heart beat and adrenal glands.
I keep thinking the doctors missed something, or what if this or what if that? I keep longing to go to a hospital but I don't know why.
I want to go to yoga class or the gym, but then I'm scared to go to the gym. All the people and equipment and then exercising makes my heart beat faster so I am scared of a heart attack.
Sorry if this post comes across as rambling. I hope some of you can give me some good advise.
Thanks a lot for reading!