| To most people, panic attack symptoms very much | | | | However, there has been some studies done recently |
| feel like "real" physical symptoms. For instance, it is | | | | that indicate that panic attacks can have an effect on |
| very common for people to show up at the | | | | your health, especially your heart in the long run. Panic |
| emergency room with what they believe to be a heart | | | | attack symptoms puts the body under extreme stress |
| attack the first time they experience panic attack | | | | and tension. Stress in general weakens the immune |
| symptoms. It's not that these people are being | | | | system, so it's only to be expected that a situation |
| paranoid, until the tests have been done and a heart | | | | where your body is experiencing extreme stress |
| problem is ruled out, the doctors usually think it's a heat | | | | symptoms on a regular basis will eventually hurt your |
| attack as well. | | | | health. |
| In addition to the chest pain, common symptoms of | | | | There is no need to add to your anxiety by starting to |
| panic attacks are rapid heart beat, dizziness, | | | | worry about the long term effect of your panic attack |
| hyperventilation, stomach pain or nausea, vomiting, | | | | symptoms; this will only make your situation worse. |
| sweating, shaking, hot or cold flashes and difficulty | | | | What is important is that you realize that you need to |
| breathing. | | | | do something about your situation. |
| An one of these symptoms alone could be very | | | | Start to focus on what might help you situation; if your |
| scary. If you don't know you're having a panic attack, | | | | everyday life is very stressful, take measures to |
| or if these are your first panic attack symptoms, you | | | | change it. Seek help for your panic attacks, either from |
| may very well think there is something seriously wrong | | | | a doctor or a therapist or through a self-help system. |
| with you, who wouldn't. | | | | Don't obsess about your anxiety situation, but take it |
| If we have never had a panic attack before, or we | | | | seriously enough to realize that you need to change |
| don't know much about them, it's not the first thing that | | | | your habits and maybe re-organize your life to get |
| comes to mind when we start feeling really physically | | | | different results. |
| ill. | | | | Your panic attack symptoms won't kill you, but that |
| In fact, there were several times in the past where I | | | | doesn't mean that everything is OK. When you are |
| thought I was experiencing a panic attack, when really I | | | | experiencing anxiety and panic attack, your body is no |
| had food poisoning or a stomach flu that made me | | | | longer just trying to tell you something; it is screaming |
| feel nauseous, dizzy, sweaty etc. I was so used to | | | | at you! Do an inventory of your situation and try to |
| panic attacks giving me these really physical reactions | | | | figure out what you can change to relive emotional |
| that I didn't recognize it when I was actually sick! | | | | and physical stress, and then make the changes. |
| Although panic attack symptoms can, and often will, | | | | Knowing what the problem is only helps if you are not |
| make you feel like you are dying, they are in general | | | | willing to do something about it. If you change what you |
| harmless, and you will find yourself feeling much better | | | | are doing today, chances are you won't experience |
| shortly after your attack stops. In the short term, panic | | | | panic attack symptoms in the future. |
| attacks don't have any serious effect on your health. | | | | |