Panic attacks

I went to the hospital Sunday night because I had a racing/pounding heart.. it woke me up from a dead sleep. I thought I was having a heart attack. My partner put their hand over my chest and could feel how fast it was pounding and they got up from a dead sleep to take me to the hospital. I was so confused when they tests came back normal. I think I just had another episode. I got this intense fear that I was going to act out or harm myself. I then felt derealization and an intense anxiety. I almost called 911 on myself. I’ve had small episodes like this before but these last 2 have been super intense. Anyone else experience this?

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

This is how my OCD started and I didn’t understand what was happening. I had never felt anything like that before and was super scared. I’m still overcoming so much with this but if I could go back and tell myself anything at all it would be to disregard those feelings/thoughts. I didn’t know it at the time but they are all related to OCD. You have to just recognize it, let those feelings pass and kind of say, “whatever”. The more you think about it and question it, ruminate or worry, the more it will linger. Redirect your attention if needed and disregard.

Username: cprock17cprock17

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

I wake up from sleep and have nocturnal panic attacks with racing heart multiple times a week.

Username: TT2022TT2022

Date posted: 1y ago

@cprock17 That’s exactly what I think happened to me. No doctor ever points it out though. At least not in emergency medicine.

Username: Abur88Abur88

Date posted: 1y ago

I experience panic feelings also sometimes random or sometimes it's triggered because I get a pain in My head and I'm like omg what is that is that an aneurysm? is it a tumor? My heart races my hands sweat and I get a metallic taste in my mouth. I've been to the ER and tests all good. But the one symptom that I just can't understand is my lips turn slightly blue or purple but that also triggers me into thinking I have lung cancer or whatever and I can't stop thinking about it. Sometimes everything around me goes blurry like I can't prevent it and I feel completely disconnected from my body and then I come back like what just happened. That freaks me out as well. I constantly have a feeling like I have an underlying condition like cancer or something that nobody has caught and it's really hard to not get up and check my lips multiple times in a row to make sure they are pink or see if the blue is getting worse .Sucks big time .I have more doc appointments soon . I hope I'm ok

Username: Anonanxiety

Date posted: 5y ago

Tw: death and panic attacks I think I just had an extreme panic attack, basically my mom picked me up and as we were driving I saw an ambulance, I didn’t know where it was going then I looked on the floor and there was an old woman on the floor. There was two people with her, I thought that she might have slipped or something because I would feel like the people around her would look more distressed idk. But then my mom goes she’s dead, I got really stressed and kept saying why did you say that why did you say that and almost was going to cry. And then a few seconds later I couldn’t breathe my chest was overworking and I could feel my lungs struggling, (I have asthma so I thought maybe it’s an asthma attack) but my inhaler wasn’t working and there was nothing to trigger it. And usually I cough a lot if I have an asthma attack and my chests aches afterwards. But after I could feel my heart beating in my chest, I think because I got so worked up.

Username: GermanCowboy

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

Panic Attacks

Does anyone in this group ever get panic attacks? I had one yesterday before going to bed. It came as I had the realization that my life was meaningless and that I’m a piece of shit. It kept snowballing until it reached a point of no return. I felt my heart racing, sweating, light headed (about to faint), and had left chest pain. It felt like the onset of a heart attack, which unfortunately, I’ve also had before. How do people in this group keep this from escalating? I took me a while, but after taking a Lorazepam, I was finally able to go to sleep. I mean, what kinds of things do people in this group do besides taking pills?

Username: Pirates#00

Date posted: 47w ago

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Was having really bad health anxiety worrying about chest pain being out of breath rapid heart rate. Went to the doctor today got an EKG done it came back normal have to follow up with cardiologist. But it’s so insane how anxiety can cause such crazy symptoms!!! Anyone else ?

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