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Panic Attacks

Coogybear

Writing with no glasses so please excuse the errors if their are any,

I'm suffering with a growing number of panic attacks and struggling to manage them. Anything will trigger them, a letter, a thought, a phone call even, and they are becoming quite debilitating.

They start in the solar plexus and move up to the chest like a crushing heavy weight on me, I struggle to breath and my heart races. It's hard to move even. It feels like my heart will stop at any moment.

I've tried slow, deep, breathing (Something I do with my son if he has a meltdown) but I cannot seem to centre myself. This dreadful feeling of foreboding comes over me.

Not being able to identify the triggers is not helping much either. Although nights with my son recently have been a little fraught, so I'm not sure if lack of sleep is a factor.

My experience with panic attacks is that I have always had them, but just not this severe. Is this a hormonal thing perhaps? Has anyone else had escalating problems with age?

Rumination has always been an issue for me and I'm now aware of the patterns of such thoughts, but how do I regain control of my senses?

Mindfulness has helped in the past, but seems inafective just now. Any suggestions?

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  • Can I just raise a few small points, which I'm sure you've covered, but just in case.

    The pains you describe sound like hiatus hernia, which is a fairly common response to stress. It might be you've not had significant attacks before. It isn't necessarily connected with what you eat, as the adverts like to make out. Sometimes it is a manifestation of growing anxiety.

    There are other causes of such pain and you really should check with your GP.

    I've had hiatus hernia since my thirties brought on by stress. Also if I stress I get pains in the neck and shoulders due, I'm informed, to muscular responses "knotting up"

    The stomach responds to stress and anxiety and is often a way of manifesting anxiety that is not surfacing in other ways.

    This is important if you are looking for trigger factors, because such manifestations of stress are long term build-up, and it may not be useful trying to relate the onset of pain to a recent cause of stress.

    Hope this helps - am not in any way trying to trivialise your pain, just endeavouring to cover some options.

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  • Can I just raise a few small points, which I'm sure you've covered, but just in case.

    The pains you describe sound like hiatus hernia, which is a fairly common response to stress. It might be you've not had significant attacks before. It isn't necessarily connected with what you eat, as the adverts like to make out. Sometimes it is a manifestation of growing anxiety.

    There are other causes of such pain and you really should check with your GP.

    I've had hiatus hernia since my thirties brought on by stress. Also if I stress I get pains in the neck and shoulders due, I'm informed, to muscular responses "knotting up"

    The stomach responds to stress and anxiety and is often a way of manifesting anxiety that is not surfacing in other ways.

    This is important if you are looking for trigger factors, because such manifestations of stress are long term build-up, and it may not be useful trying to relate the onset of pain to a recent cause of stress.

    Hope this helps - am not in any way trying to trivialise your pain, just endeavouring to cover some options.

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