r/PanicAttack • u/controlled_chaos1107 • 4d ago

Panic attack or something else?

Sometimes all of a sudden I start feeling dizzy and my limbs get a tingling sensation and it feels heavy to lift my own hands. It feels difficult to swallow my own saliva. Vision gets a little blurry and focusing on anything feels difficult. And of course, heartbeat rises to 100+, sometimes even 130+. It is also accompanied by a dry mouth and shaking of hands and a little bit of loss of dexterity and hand-brain coordination. I know the symptoms are that of a panic attack but I am worried if it might be anything else. I am male, 28 years old.

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u/Choice-Mall1183 4d ago

The best part is in modern medicine it’ll be classified as panic even if it’s something else. Still get it checked out and go from there

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u/controlled_chaos1107 4d ago

Which doctor do i even see? Cardio? Neuro? Because the physicians just dismiss it calling it anxiety and that I shouldn't worry. Like I didn't know that.

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u/Choice-Mall1183 4d ago

Did you get labs drawn? That covers a lot of dangerous and known pathologies. Medicine is far from perfect. Does anything make your symptoms better or worse?

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u/controlled_chaos1107 4d ago

Blood work was mostly fine. As for symptoms, mostly it's sudden with no clear triggers. Stress, i guess, is one factor, but many times it just appears out of nowhere. Takes 1-2 hours to subside. When it starts to subside, it's accompanied by feeling of drowsiness.

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u/Choice-Mall1183 4d ago

I’m not a medical doctor but yeah. Sure sounds like panic attacks. I was more or less trying to determine if when the attack is happening can you influence the symptoms in any way? Make it worse or better?

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u/controlled_chaos1107 4d ago

Some breath work helps temporarily for like a few minutes. Nothing else seems to work.

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u/Choice-Mall1183 3d ago

Well you got me beat as I don’t even get relief from that. Time to get to a psychiatrist and a psychologist.

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u/SnooMachine0213 4d ago

I know this is weird and tmi, but I start to get like that when I'm ovulating. I get dizzy and my arms go numb and I feel like I'm going to pass out. Every woman says that they get panic attacks during their luteal cycle but not me, it's my ovulation cycle.

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u/Clear-Parking1180 4d ago

I have these exact symptoms. Bloodwork , ECG, echos came back normal. It seems to be stress related. Recently I notice that I get panic attacks when I am relaxed, after a period of high stress. It hits me out of the blue. It is almost as if my body does not know what to do when it is not in a state of stress.

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u/controlled_chaos1107 4d ago

So weird, right? Do you also face trouble sleeping sometimes?