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can a SEVERE panic attack cause ur body temp to rise
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Yes, it can. It makes your body temp, & even your blood pressure rise. I know from experience. My temp has even went up to 100.5 during a bad panic attack, & then afterwards, it was checked again & it was 98.6. Try washing your face off with a cold wash cloth, & stay in a room that is cool. It helps some, but, if it doesn't go away after the anxiety is gone, it could possibly be something else.
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Do you actually have a fever? Sometimes I feel like I have a raging fever but then I take my temp and it is fine. Have you taken your temp?
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I agree I get really hot and sweat when I am having a panic attack, and then i will get really cold
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yes, yes and yes! dont worry about it man.
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The short answer is (are you ready for it?)

Maybe.

But let's get down to cases here. Panic would no sooner cause a rise in body temperature then a book of matches would cause your house to burn down. To burn down the house, you'd need to light the matches, then find something to catch fire, and THEN maybe the house will burn down. And you certainly could say that if it had not been for those darn matches, the house wouldn't have burned down. And you'd be right. But it was also necessary for other things to fall inot place.

Back to your hot body: we know that a fever is measured by an increase in body temperature, yes? But of course, something must CAUSE the fever. Usually, it is an infection of some kind that does the trick, but it could just as well be eating a lot of hot food or drink or spending too much time in a hot place, causing your blood to warm up and acusing your core temperature to rise. In that case, you have a "fever" in the literal sense of it -meaning simply that your temp went up.

What else might cause a rise in temperature. Many things, truth to tell: eating and digesting to name two of my favorites. The fact is, that if we stuck a probe in you and attached it to a data recorder, we would trace a line that shows your temp going up and down (albeit in a narrow range) at various times of the day. Just like your car engine works harder when you are carrying a full load of fuel, passing a car, going up a grade, etc.

So, I would not DISMISS the connection between a panic attack and rise in temperature, but I would be careful about thinking the arrangement is strictly one equals the other. The question is, what else is going on? It would make sense to me that the "alert" status we go into during panic would affect metabolism and therefore be a contributor to a change in temp -EITHER way.

This may well be TMI, but my point is that panic ITSELF -while experienced as a set of feelings unique from all others- occurs because of other processes which build to create a panic landscape and BINGO! "Houston, we've got panic!" If panic were an isloated, independent event -sort of like a sneeze because of pepper in your nose- it would be much easier to control because of the lack of other factors. But alas, panic is as much a message about other factors at work as it is a "thing unto itself." Therefore, we do well when we broaden our investigation to other events and occurrences.

Yes?
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