Anyone else suffer with these?

GP has given me some meds that slow my heart rate down because I can't do anything without having one, even things at home bring them on.

I've not been out of the house for a couple of weeks either (except to the GP today) because of these attacks.

How on earth are you supposed to deal with this? 

I know its not easy Pixie...but the more you stasy in the more paniced you will become at the thought of going out......

If you have a dog take it foe a walk or nip to the local shop...............

pixie one step at a time, thats how you learn to cope

ok although you may not be able to see it, usually these panic attacks have a trigger.  It doesn't have to be anything physical it can be your own thoughts.

meds are fine to begin with but eventually you have to learn to recognise an attack coming on and find your own Coping Strategies.

I am terrified of speaking in public yet i do it quite successfully, simply by holding a pen and using its click button. 

one of the first exercises i ever learned to cope with a panic attack is this one


 Pause and take notice of your surroundings.

look for something solid e.g. a chair, a table  move over to it and lean or sit on it grasp it.  Now take deep intakes of breath and breathe out slowly.  Now you are taking back control. 


it isn't easy and it doesn't happen overnight but things will settle and if you need to chat you know you have support here.


good luck 

Pixie they are not easy to deal with and it sounds like you have had a few severe ones.
Sometimes it can just be a case of mind over matter.Hope you are feeling better soon

sounds awful, I have anixety attacks which leave me floored well and truely, my milder ones feel like I'm having a heart attack, worse ones affect me totally, can't move a muscle and just want to hide away from everything

Hope the medication helps it for now

Ive suffered with these
Lost 3 stone
Got myself in a right tizzy
didnt go to the docs when i should either!!

ArE u on betablockers? As i was put on those of four occasions
It subsides that heart race,but once yr off the it comes back. 

I eventually saw my GP..I then went onto see someone else who spoke more in depth

I started one monday..Taking it step at a time.
A stroll around MY Garden..Cus then even that was a big issue

step by step i gradually got there! And u will hun with time

Have u spoken to anyone ..Has anything triggered them ,that u might know of ?


Its a horrible feeling & unitil you have been there..no one has no idea

I had a friend say ..Its easy enough ..just snap out of it .ittle did she know

Been on the betablockers.. just as you say ACS, come off them and the heart rate goes up again.. but I can say I never really had any problems whilst taking them.

Doc just reckons I've no need for them anymore here so he's took me off them. I tried stopping taking them real quick & that was silly, pulse went sky high, seriously got the mother of all wooly heads and big jitters.

Tapered off them slowly over a couple of weeks after that daft episode & been okay since. Pulse settled back to something sane. 

Yep, they are a beta blocker. They're the ones I was on for a period, for borderline blood pressure. But I definitely did notice that they also had a calming side effect on any fight or flight or anxiety type feelings.

Can report no problems with them other than, if and when the time comes to stop taking them, do so gradually.

I suspected it was a return pixie


my ears are open my mouth zipped if you need to talk x

I was on sustained release 80mg

When I came off them, the doc gave me 40mg non-sustained tablets & basically said, take them as little as poss, space out the doses as much as you can, cut the tablets in half etc.

I'm now down to taking half a tablet every 2 or 3 days, i.e. nothing more than a placebo effect dose I think. Pretty much the next step in the next few days is to go see doc again & have my BP re-evaluated. It might have come down to normal now having quit the fags and lost a stone, fingers crossed

Tapering off the things properly rather than trying to be a hero and quit them cold, hasn't been hard at all & no nasty effects.

Anyway good luck with them.. hope they help things eh. They sure made my snooker hand a lot steadier I might keep a few tabs for special occasions
  

Thanks Cas and Argie and everyone else whose posted and shown me that I'm not alone with this.    

Feeling much better today with my new "drugs".

I guess it will take a while for all the knotted muscles to ease so still in some pain but it is much better.

I just feel exhausted now.