DP and I went for dinner at a friend's house yesterday, had a lovely chilled afternoon, food was yummy, had a couple of glasses of sparkling wine, wasn't even close to being drunk.
Then out of the blue I got a horrible pain running up the right side of my spine, and a similar pain under my right bottom rib. I remember this pain from when I was a student and used to get panic attacks so made my excuses and left with DP.
Got outside, started shaking then had to dash behind a tree to vomit. The pain in my back was bringing tears to my eyes at this point. Managed to compose myself momentarily and got on a bus, only went a couple of stops and had to jump off again (in the middle of nowhere, poor DP didn't have a clue what was happening). I felt an urge to pace around, if I stopped I would shake violently and the back pain would increase. Still felt like I could vomit again at any moment. Mentally/ emotionally I felt restless, anxious and just wanted it to be over.
DP finally managed to get me in a taxi but as soon as I got home I vomitted again, the pain was still there, I was crying and still shaking violently. DP wanted to call doctor but I knew if I could get myself into bed, get warm and get him to rub my back Id be fine. Sure enough I was fine and dropped off to sleep at the start of x-factor. The whole episode lasted just over an hour.
I have a very settled, happy life. I am not anxious or stressed about anything, could this have been a panic attack??