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Are these panic attacks?

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Chilloutrelax · 20/06/2024 21:04

I've been having heart palpitations for a while. ECG normal and GP quite dismissive.

Sometimes I'm getting in a bit of a state for no real reason. For example I'm at work and suddenly have this overwhelming feeling of that I shouldn't be there and should go home. I get shaky, my voice cracks, my heart races and chest hurts, sometimes I get a pounding head., palms sweating. On the outside I look calm and normal apart from maybe the shaking.

When I'm going for a walk with dh I'm literally scared of my own shadow and every runner that goes by I jump out my skin for no apparent reason.

I was going on a ride recently with one of the kids (I don't like rides but it wasn't a scary one), I was shaking and my heart going so fast I thought I might pass out I felt like I was outside of my body.

I don't really know what a panic attack feels like. Now I'm wondering if it is actually panic attacks and maybe that's causing the palpitations.

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Eyesopenwideawake · 20/06/2024 22:48

They could be. Can you remember the circumstances around the first one?

Were you tired, run down, hungry or thirsty or stressed?

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