Please help me. I need a lot of help !

[elmored20]

Here it is :
History:
Ive had panic attacks for 5 years , but i went on paxil and i was fine , then cut it off cold turkey in febuarary.
Since then ive been having panic attacks , brain zaps , heart paltpitations.

Thursday:
I had a severe panic attack , I went to the hospital and i did an ekg and blood tests and stress test with blood pressure , everything was normal. My panic attack it was normal was gone.

Friday:

I was fine. Nothing happened

Saturday:
I was measuring my pulse all day but it was normal 68-80


Today:

I have nothing to do at work . So i have an ocd where i would measure my pulse. I measured it all day every 5 minutes.  hThe range was 84-98. So I assumed something was wrong with me. e I got in the car end of work and drove home , and I was panicking for no reason.

Then i came home jumped on the treadmill my heart rate was 120-125bpm on 4.5km/h , and usually its 105-110 . Something is wrong.

So how do i stop all this ?

[mammo]

Obcessing about your health is keeping you in high gear with anxiety.  Fear feeds our anxiety so if you can stop the fear, you ease your anxiety.  Always be prepared for a day at work with nothing to do, it happens.  This is a good time to clean out your desk, or ask to help someone else, or ask your boss for something to do.  Anything but just sitting there, and it will show you have iniative.  Our heartrate fluctuates all day long, so taking your pulse all day will not tell you anything.  I feel it's good that you jumped on the treadmill when anxious, exercise if great for anxiety, it gives all the adrenaline something to work on.  Exercise increases your heart rate, and this is normal and builds a strong heart along with other health benefits.  The most important thing you can do is learn to "accept" when all tests come back normal, that you are fine.  Once you accept this, you are no longer fueling your anxiety. It boils down to fears about your heart raising your anxiety level, which raises your heartrate, which makes you panic.  If the medication was helping with this I would go back on it.  Decide to start living your life instead of worrying about everything, or you may wake up one day an old person wondering where the years went.  Take care!

[RubyWitch]

Why did you stop taking the Paxil if it was working well for you? Did your doctor explain that you need to taper off this medication after long term use, that doing it cold turkey can have many negative, possibly even dangerous effects?

Your panic attacks have increased, which is only to be expected when you cold turkey off an AD. You did the right thing by going to the ER, where it sounds like they did a very thorough check up and ruled out any cardiac issue, leaving the DX as anxiety/panic.

Friday and Saturday you were fine, no panic attacks, but you got very obssessed with your heart rate, which was perfectly normal. (60-100 bpm is the accepted "norm")

I really don't even know what to say about your day at work where you had "nothing to do" except take your pulse every 5 minutes! You do understand that you were doing nothing but setting yourself up for a panic attack, right? Which you succeeded in doing as you state that on the drive home, you were panicking for "no reason." But you had a reason. You'd just spent the better part of 8 hours convincing yourself that something was wrong with your heart. And the more convinced you became, the more anxious you became, the faster your heart beat............classic panic "self-sabotage."

When you got home you "jumped on the treadmill......." Why? You were already freaking out about your heart rate, why wouldn't you do just the opposite and do something to relax? To each his own, but I don't understand your reasoning, it seems totally counterintuitive....................

Anyway, you got on the treadmill and your heart rate was 120-125 bpm when it is usually in the range of 105-110. This is a very minimal difference in heart rates and you must take into consideration that you were feeling very anxious when you got on the treadmill, which increased your heart rate before you even began. Looking at these numbers, the most your HR increased was only 20 bpm, which is bupkus!
(And bear in mind that nobody has the exact same blood pressure or heart rate every single time they take it. It is constantly in a state of flux)

I think you're right. I think something is wrong. But I seriously don't think it has anything to do with your heart, I think it has to do with your anxiety, which seems to be focused on your health. Time for a good long chat with your doctor which hopefully will include a discussion about therapy. I think you're just stuck in a rut and you need a hand to help you out of it so you can move forward.

Welcome to the club!
Peace
Greenlydia        

[elmored20]

Well does measuring your pulse constantly cause your heart to race eventuallly

[allmymarbles]

Panic alone can cause your heart to race. As for your anxiety and panic attacks, have your adrenals checked.