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14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Hello - London UK here

My names paul and i went online to read about excercise and panic attacks after a particularly severe attack at 2am - I found this website and joined up. Read through parts 1 & 2 and printed some diary forms etc . (im still having the physical symptoms of my attack but feel calm right now)

I went through parts 1 & 2 of the sessions quickly as i have had this problem for a long time ( 20 years almost) and thought i had conquered it, but recently the attacks have come back with a vengeance. Usually i can fight them off but lately they have been more prolonged. I would love to talk to people whose attacks last more than 1 hour and are more physical symptoms than anxious thoughts. i.e mostly out of the blue attacks without warning.

I was on multiple medications years back and of course became an addict to valium as many do but i suceeded in getting the doage down from 40mg plus a day to 6-8 mg a day presently with no other meds needed.

Last thing i want is to go on the upward meds curve again.

Thanks for listening and hope to get to know some of you.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Anxiety and Exercise

This is why i ended up joining this programme. I was searching about excercise and panic attacks after a severe attack early this morning ( ongoing but under control).

Does anyone know a site where they have an excercise regime for beginners that would be helpful? Im afraid i cant afford to join a gym where i live.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Panic worsened by fears of cardiac arrest (21 y/o male)

Sol, Just remember there are many millions of people undergoing the same thing and i can relate to you totally having the same problems. It is beatable and together we can help each other do it.

From what i have seen so far this site is a fabulous resource and i wish i had access to it many years ago.

Just a few hours ago i felt i couldn`t breathe and had the "heart attack" symptoms we all know and hate so well. Just coming here to read helped the symptoms go away. Keep reading the site Sol - it really will help , i promise!

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Intensity Of Panic?

Hi Eugene, My case is very very similar to yours.

Im thinking its stress related aligned with the fact that we got a little complacent thinking we had won the war and didn`t put our " learned & practiced" techniques into action straight away when we got stressed and didnt realise it was happening again untill too late..

Now we have a new and different fear and anxiety cycle to break - but we will!

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

dont know who to believe or what to think

Lance - lots of people definitely care. I can feel your pain through your words.

A little suggestion if i may. Search online for groups in your area , there are a lot of community anxiety/panic attack support groups who have professiopnal helpers out there if you feel up to talking to other people who are in the same boat as yourself.

I found it a big help in the early days of my treatment when i had no idea what was happening to me and thought i was crazy and dying. Im still alive and kicking many years later!

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Getting a little bit better

Thats great! Keep the positive mindset going.

I find if any time im feeling dodgy i log in here and read it helps a lot. The lessons really are worth reading again and again just to reinforce my belief that i can beat this.

It reminds me not to over analyse my body sensattions and not to avoid anything . Its working well so far and any symptoms soon ease. I even tried to induce an attack when i was feeling particulary anxious for several hours a few days back but it wouldn`t come on.

I actually found myself talking to "it" - saying "come on - do your worst - im ready! I know im not dying - lets get it over with!"

As i said , it wouldn`t escalate that day - but im sure one day soon it will - and im ready!

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

get nervous while exercising

Im planning my excercise programme now - mostly as i want to git fitter and lose a bit of weight ( any side benfit with the PA will be a huge bonus). I plan jogs round my local park and maybe light weight lifting.

To prepare myself i had a checkover with my GP who did BP/listened to heart and lungs and told me everything is ok.

Now comes the hard bit - getting motivated to get out and do it!

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Good salesmen

Just keep telling the salesman he is wasting his time. You are not buying ever and he will stop calling.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

We are not sick

I would say i am sick , but wouldn`t say i have a mental illness..

Overproduction of adrenaline because some chemical reaction happens in my brain when certain bodily sensations happen, even im not conciously aware of the sensations sometimes.

I think PD/PA can lead to mental illness if not acted upon quickly though and unfortunately many people understand whats happening and dont seek help until the cycle is well and truly underway.

i really feel more information should be provided to everyone via govt TV ads, posters in doctors clinics etc etc to let people know that this is very common , that help is available, and that its very beatable.

When i talk to any of my friends or coleagues about it , they seem to have no clue what im talking about and have never heard of these disorders/problems that millions suffer from.

I spread the word at every chance i get in the hope that i can help even just one person nt have to go through more than 20 years of suffering as i did.

In all those years i was never referred to a website like this or even given an info booklet about PA/PD - i think that is a very sad state of affairs. yes psychologists talked to me, but words are just that, heard and forgotten sometimes.

Thank god for sites like ths now springing up all over the place to help people understand and cope.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

My Story

Hi sara,

the "toilet" and needing to go symptoms were very common for me at the beginning of my battle. In fact i will never forget the first time. Everything inside me came out all in one go.

I of course now know that this is part of the fight/flight preparation of the body as it dumps (excuse the terminology) uneeded baggage to speed up flight part process.

once i got more confident that i knew exactly what was happening and what was going to happen the toilet problems went away.

I still regarded the bathroom as a sanctuary though - it gives me a private space away from colleagues where i could do my breathing control excercises and not scare anyone - sometimes people would even call an ambulance without asking me what was going on.

then i graduated to just walking to the park or around to a quiet lobby and doing my breathing control without anyone noticing.

At the slightest feeling of stress now or any weird bodily sensations i immediately start controlling my breathing ( slowing it) and doing my talking to myself inside routines. Im getting pretty good at fending off the vast majority of attacks now whereas in the past i would always go full blown PA mode.

Im almost major attack free now and i have accepted in my mind that it may come back in the future but i have the tools to deal with it.

The key for me is believing what i read here and other places and more importantly finally believing in myself.

Its not my fault and im not a victim. I just have to deal with it and I WILL!

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