Are you sure it's not a heart attack??????

[tanner00]

I need some reassurance right now. It began with my normal anxiety attack coming on and I tried my breathing techniques and stuff but nothing helped.

[tanner00]

I am so sorry for spamming my own thread but I find that it helps me with my anxiety to get these things out.

This one sure is a big one. It is really making me feel like I am having something else going on. I can go 5 minutes feeling calm and then my stomach hurts, I feel like I can't breath, and I am dizzy and then back to feeling calm. For some reason I cannot get the breathing techniques down.

At first, I knew it was a panic attack so I did what the psychologist told me to do and I took my meds. With the shortness of breath, it's more like I can breath fine, I am just not getting oxygen.

[tanner00]

Well, I have taken Clorazepate a few times before and I do not think this is from that. This feels like my normal anxiety attack with the exception of feeling smothered off and on for the past hour and a half. I have no chest discomfort or arm pain, but I am now nauseated and dizzy. I have had a series of panic attacks for the past few months but I had not had one in over 3 weeks now and things are pretty good in my life. I broke up with a girl that I think was part of my anxious problem and I am going on a vacation to the beach on Thursday, however it is going to drain my finances, and that may be my anxious problem.

[tanner00]

Another note, this attack has really got me puzzled. By now, the meds would've helped. I am calmed down but I feel like I am smothering and I am dizzy.

[Brenndy]

Notify the physician who prescribed the Clorazepate and describe to him or her what symptoms you are having.  

Reassurance:  Doubtful that you are experiencing a myocardial infarct.  However, better safe than sorry.  

Please make the call and send me an email to let me know the outcome.

[tanner00]

I am trying to calm down but no help. Here is a little about me, real quick. I had blood work done about 4 months ago and everything was fine. My mom is my hypochondriac mentor, go figure, but she also has heart problems (Congestive heart failure, murmurs, and irregular beats) and I have the occasional arrhythmia.

[tanner00]

I took my meds when I felt one coming on (Clorazepate) but it's not helping and that was about an hour ago, but the shortness of breath won't go away.