Nutrition Health Chat: Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 5-6 PM Eastern. Learn how vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients affect your health. Free live Q&A. Join us!
Member Comments are provided by individuals and reflect their personal opinions only. Under NO circumstances should you act on any advice or opinion posted in this forum. ALWAYS check with your personal physician before taking any action regarding your health! MedHelp International and our partners, sponsors and affiliates have no obligation to monitor any comments posted on this site, or the content and/or accuracy of such exchanges. MedHelp International does not endorse the views of any user.
Is this just anxiety?
by dmil241, Jul 18, 2007 04:53PM
Something happened today which has me scared. I'm wondering if it is just a panic attack or if something is really physcially wrong.
I was a bit tired this afternoon and decided to lay back on the couch when I got home and close my eyes. I was drifting off when suddenly I jumped up because I felt like I couldn't breath. There was a heaviness in my chest and I felt like I couldn't take a deep breath. It didn't last but a few seconds or a minute at most but it really scared me! Now I'm freaked out afraid it is going to happen again.
What do you all think? Has anything like this happened to anyone else?
I was a bit tired this afternoon and decided to lay back on the couch when I got home and close my eyes. I was drifting off when suddenly I jumped up because I felt like I couldn't breath. There was a heaviness in my chest and I felt like I couldn't take a deep breath. It didn't last but a few seconds or a minute at most but it really scared me! Now I'm freaked out afraid it is going to happen again.
What do you all think? Has anything like this happened to anyone else?
Related discussions
-
is something wrong with my heart pleaseee help (8 replies):i seriously think something is wrong with my heart. i ha...[more]
-
Deep breathing with Anxiety?? (4 replies):Does anyone suffering with anxiety or panic disorder eve...[more]
-
Trouble Taking a Full Deep Breath (13 replies):When my panic attacks come on, I have trouble take 'full...[more]
-
Unable to get a full breath from anxiety/fatigue? (5 replies):The title doesn't quite describe the question I'm trying...[more]
-
Can anyone tell me what's wrong (4 replies):I have suffered with GAD & Panic Disorder and Bi-Polar f...[more]
-
Constant Shortness of Breath (17 replies):Hi,im a 22 year old male and i've been dealing with this...[more]
-
worry about breath (4 replies):last month i got one panic attack. after that, I worr...[more]
-
BREATHING EXERCISES HELP PLEASE? (1 replies):Has anyone any ideas as to why when i do breathing exerc...[more]
Post Comment
Related Communities
Recent Videos
Related Expert Forums
Recent Activity
Most Popular Trackers
RSS
Expert Activity
Community Members
Thanks for responding. This has happened once before about a month ago. It was early morning. I was asleep in bed. When suddenly I woke feeling like I had stopped breathing for a second or couldn't get a breath. I sloughed it off as nothing and tried to get back to sleep but everytime I would begin to drift off I'd feel it again. So I got up and worried about it for the next two days. I tried to come up with reasonable explainations to settle myself down. I hadn't experienced anything like that since until today.
Now like then, I feel kind of panicky since it has happened and keep asking myself if I feel like it is hard to breath which it isn't or keep taking a deep breath to make sure it isn't hard to breath which it is not. I even went out for a walk about an hour later. It is a bit hilly where I live. I figured if I could walk the block and not feel anything I was fine and I could.
I just feel unsettled now and wonder what happened to me and why.