Sudden sense of dread today and trying not to panic

[AlwaysAnxious32]

Anyone else get a sudden sense of impending doom? I've had this wash over me today suddenly and it feels horrid. I just have this sudden sense of dread and I'm finding it really difficult to explain. I have suffered anxiety and panic in the last and I have OCD. But this doesn't feel like the kind of panic I would normally get. After a quick Google, it says could be a heart attack or PE. I don't have any chest pain but not I feel like I've got pain iny shoulder but I don't know if I'm making that up. I've started to really panic some more. Anyone else had this?? And been ok?. Working myself into a right state, also feel.silly going to A and E and I saying "I feel a sense of dread". On the brink of a massive panic attack. Can anyone calm me the hell down. Hand hold needed.

If you have healthy anxiety, it’s worth getting a thermometer and a pulse oximeter to keep at home so you can take your own stats at times like this. You could also get a home blood pressure machine.

Then you can read and document your own stats and be reassured you aren’t in an actual health decline.

I don't remember exactly. I'm too lazy to go check (I haven't taken any yet) but it's 5 tablets all in one go once a month? I had my thyroid checked a couple of years ago and it was fine apparently.

Feeling cold especially in your extremities is a response to shock and panic. The blood flows into your vital organs. You should try to see a doctor just in case there is some underlying physical cause.
But I went through this one year. I found a great little book ' Self Help for your Nerves ' Dr Claire Weekes.

Water intoxication does not occur by drinking a litre of water every few hours, nowhere near in fact.

The pp is either seriously ill informed or ridiculously overdramatic. Either way, they're wrong.

I have a pulse ox somewhere, and I have a BP machine. But I did become very obsessive with them so I hid them up high in a cupboard that's not that easily accessible to me because it was unhealthy. Never thought about them until you just mentioned.

And what medical training have you?

It’s you who are wrong.

Parathyroid is different to thyroid though.

You can’t possibly believe someone can get water intoxication from a litre of water every few hours

What has medical training got to do with it?

You said drinking one litre of water every few hours is dangerous and can cause death fgs 😂

You must be perpetually dehydrated if you believe this is true...it's possibly that that's muddling your thinking.

My potassium and sodium and stuff was normal too. Surely if there was anything else they would have found it in the bloods?

No, i'm not.

Google is your friend here. Educating yourself on something so utterly basic can be done in twenty seconds.

I'd strongly disagree. The last thing you want to be doing with health anxiety is any more checking/monitoring behaviours. I'm a therapist who treats health anxiety and the cycle of monitoring keeps an unhelpful focus on the body is entirely unhelpful. Remind yourself this is anxiety, you are safe and it will pass. Avoid googling anything health related and try and refocus as much as possible on something else right now. I hope tommorow is easier.

Yes as I said I do have these things being past I became overly obsessive with them.

I often had sudden and intense feelings of dread, before I started Sertraline. It was horrible. I'm sorry you're going through that. If it carries on happening, go to see your GP, because you don't have to put up with it.

The thing is my anxious episodes have usually passed by now, but coming into the third hour of this feeling. Still cold. Aching. Dp angry with me saying he won't allow to me to go to a and e or call 111 because "you didn't die last time, or any of the million other times".

Hey, this is going to sound really random and a bit gross but could it just be diarrhoea?

A mild stomach issue can draw the blood to that area, making you feel weak and cold; it gives you the same sinking feeling as dread; and the vasovagal nerve links the gut and brain and can cause anxiety when your tummy is upset, as well as working in the other direction.

I get the same feeling when I have an upset stomach, sometimes before any other symptoms.

I havent had any tummy issues. But I do have gallstones so maybe that's about to flare up. Not sure.

Anxiety my lovely and it wants you to think that this time its different and something terrible is going to happen but its not. Take a deep breath. Nothing is happening, nothing is going to harm you and you are safe. A PE or a heart attack both display additional symptoms. Try and relax, easier said then done i know but you are and will be okay. Anxiety manifests all sorts of shit when it takes a hold but remember, its not real and we largely create it our self. One sensation leads to a thought that spirals into another thought that creates further physical symptoms which in turn heightens thought. Get a good night's sleep and hopefully youll feel better tomorrow. X

To add also, ive been bloody freezing all day too but I think im coming down with a cold, theres so many bugs lurking about. X

This thread is just going to make you spiral OP. You will get all kinds of random diagnosis from untrained posters.
I remember your last thread and you wete convinced you were dying.
Get.off your.phone, relax, eat something and go to bed watching a film.

Have you got adhd?

It’s mumsnet, the only diagnosis anyone can have is sepsis 🤣

Op your dp can’t tell you what to do your an adult. Op by ringing 111 you tell them about your freezing hot to touch they talk to you about your symptoms then decide if it’s nothing or something but the call could be the reassurance you need. Don’t listen to him listen to your gut feeling if it’s anxiety fair enough but you don’t need the man telling you it’s nothing he’s not a medic is he?

Hes kind of right though, OP, even if a little insensitive. Anxiety is awful but You've survived every other episode. If youre cold and ache it definitely sounds like a viral infection of the sorts. X