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I usually get my worst attacks in the morning, right after I wake up. What I can’t understand is why, after a night of rest, my body goes berserk this way (with the heart pounding and adrenalin rush). It’s very odd. Does anyone else have this experience?
I only feel this because I have gone SOOOO long without meds thru the night. Pop some in the Am and I am fine. Still hoping for a longer acting Xanax to be released here in the US as Klonopin just don’t do it like X does. I just have adapted that that is how mornings are for a good reason – long time lapse. Gwen
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I usually get my worst attacks in the morning, right after I wake up. What I can’t understand is why, after a night of rest, my body goes berserk this way (with the heart pounding and adrenalin rush). It’s very odd. Does anyone else have this experience? — "In an upstairs room, a modem made a connection." –Lincoln Spector
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Well, most phsiological syptoms are caused by a psychologic base. That is precisely what a panic attack is. If your attacks cuase you panic, then I suggust going to a doctor and running some tests… Brad…
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Brad You sound like a person who has never had a panic attack, or one of those people that just doesn’t get it. A Panic attack is caused by some chemical imballance in the brain, or inheirited from someone in your family. I should use the term "panic disorder". I don’t think your comments were intended to harm anyone, but it sounds like you need to do some studying on this subject,either as a sufferer of this condition or as a support person who has to deal with a person who has panic attacks, and or agoraphobia. I am not trying to flame you or piss you off. Its just that comments make no sence to a long time sufferer such as myself and i am sure others. As far as commenting on the last couple sentences of your post anxiety causes panic, but the panic causes the anxiety. I feel that i should say more but i would like to make it fair to you and give you a chance to repost on this to make sure that i am reading what you said correctly Jeff.
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Sandy Santra schreef: I usually get my worst attacks in the morning, right after I wake up. What I can’t understand is why, after a night of rest, my body goes berserk this way (with the heart pounding and adrenalin rush). It’s very odd. Does anyone else have this experience? — "In an upstairs room, a modem made a connection." –Lincoln Spector
I experienced this for a few months, waking up in total panic. It seems that the Out of the Blue Panic Attack has nothing to do with being rested or not. It’s just there suddenly which is one of the arguments for it being a disorder of brain chemistry rather than of psycholpogical origin. it’s not uncommon, moreover, for panic attacks to occur while sleeping (even in non-REM sleep, in other words: when not dreaming). Stuart Shipko, the director of the Panic Disorder Institute attached to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles and a leading (if somewhat controversial) expert on PD even maintains that Panic Disorder can only be diagnosed as such when there is a certain amount of nocturnal attacks. Actually, there has been a discussion of this very recently on the Bulletin Board of the PDI website (it’s still there to read). I find this site probably *the* best source of info on the ‘net. The URL is: http://www.algy.com/pdi/BBS/stable.cgi Philip Peters – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –
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