I sometimes have a severe panic attack before during and after bowel movement Please Help

[gotbait1]

I feel dizzy and faint before during and after bowel movment, mostly when my stool is loose and have to go 2 to 3 times
I don't drink anything with caffeine in it. I take Zanax and panic attack slowly goes away.
I rather not have to rely on Zanax to feel better at bowel movement time.
Is my unexplained panic attack causing my BM or is my BM causing my panic attack?
Is it a medical problem?
or wrong type of diet?
This is a horrible scary feeling I don't wish on anyone.
Please help  Thanks Mike

[fussy_hussy]

Are you any better now ? I started to develop this after Swine Flu, my husband's heart surgery, mom's deatha and sister's death. Plus a man I was seeing was constantly rejecting me. Like you I used to do part time univ. studies, run a business and a household and keep a large garden. It is stress building up. I come home and often come really close to telling my husband to call 911, I feel like crap, but then I go back to normal after taking Ativan or sometimes taking a sip of rum or going in cold outdoors, to cool off. I am 67 and still feel post-menopause.

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[jlg2011]

I am 32 years old, and a College student full time. I also run a small business. I just last year in July lost my dad, and in february lost my mom, but I have been experiencing something so weird I just don't know what to think. I have been suffering with these attacks that seem like a heart attack, but they are not. Filled with adrenaline, and then burping. If I take an antacid it is relived it seems. Everyone seems to think I am going crazy because I ask someone to take me to the emergency room like every other day because the doctors don't find anything, and I am very afraid. I also recently started to have migraine headaches, and stiffness in my neck. All of the doctors seem to think its anxiety, but I have never had this before, and I don't understand how I would develop something so severe. Does anyone have any answers? I feel so alone, and I am very fearful of going through this forever.........

[jessabellcool]

I have the same thing actually
I'm on Fluoxitine (not sure I spelled that right lol)
and I feel it doesn't help at all.

[mammo]

Your panic attacks are mosty likely causing you to have to go to the bathroom, it is very common.