A message from one of our followers - shes confused as to whether her panic attacks are just panic attacks or whether there could be an issue with her heart. If you have been through something similar please share your story below if you like or offer some advice :) Heres my story...... I have been to 3 different cardiologists now since 2011. Lets back up, in 2011 I had my very first ( what I believe was a heart attack), panic attack. I have been in constant fear of another one of those dreadful things ever since. In 2012 I experienced another racing heart episode while in the shower. From that point on I eluded showers at all costs fearing every time I took one, I would suffer this awful heart panic. I resorted to baths for nearly 2 YEARS!! I am NOT KIDDING! When it starting happening in the baths too( cause I was subconsciously thinking it was going to happen) I resorted to sponge bath, again, NOT JOKING!!!!! It was AWFUL!!!!!! I experienced a death of two very close people to me last August and December. Ever since then its been a downward spiral with these racing heart episodes!!!!! I cant get them to leave me the hell alone. Back to cardio....... Ive seen 4 cardiologists who tell me that my heart is fine. I do get some PACs thats been recorded on a holter monitor. I was in my cardio office last June, two weeks before I was set to have an ablation done ( they thought maybe I had SVT) and I went into an attack!! They quick hooked me up to the 12 lead and captured a heart rate of 167 but was normal sinus tachycardia. NOT SVT, which my cardio says is very distinctive on a EKG. He canceled my ablation and said he doesnt even want to chance going in and around my heart if there may be nothing to ablate. I was SO happy about this! Im not dying of some fatal arrhythmia!!!!!! Praise God!! Anyway....Ive seen 4 different cardios now cause I am convinced my heart is going to give out at anytime, any second of the day. These episodes completely stopped for 6 whole months and then came back with force!!! Now happening once every 2 weeks. Heres what happens when I get them.... I start to feel very jittery, like I have to run or move around to exclude the feeling that my heart is going to take off like a horse out of a gate. Then I get shaky, my heart pounds out of my chest( like I said its been like 160-170, maybe even higher, who knows) my hands turn ice cold and they start to tingle, my breathing picks up a little( not so bad I am gasping for air or anything) and I swear I hold my breath a lot when this happens) and my hands begin to tingle. I feel like I am dying!!!!!!!!! My heart stop beating so forcefully after about 10 mins, my pulse stays elevated for up to an hour after these episodes tho. Not at 170 tho, like 90s. I feel not real sometimes during these attacks also and sometimes I can literally feel myself coming down!!!!! Scary as heck!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, please tell me......panic attack or something way wrong with my heart?! Since 2011 Ive been trying to figure this all out. Please share your experiences with panic attacks and if you think this is what Im suffering from......
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:22:55 +0000
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