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What should I do about panic attacks?

I got a panic attack last night, it lasted maybe an hour and I was filled with extreme fear of everything, i thought i was going to die and was thinking horrible thoughts, what should I do if this happens again.

I’m really scared

Don’t wait until it happens again. See a doctor about getting anti-anxiety medication. It will help tremendously.

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Sometimes a certain smell can bring on a moment of panic.

Panic attacks can cause a variety of symptoms, if even a certain smell brings on a panic attack for you, then they are not "slight’ panic attacks..be sure to talk to your doctor about this as soon as possible..Take Care….

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Out of all the sleeping disorders in medical science, ‘fatal familial insomnia’ is one of the rarest, least understood sleeping disorders there is.

What we know about ‘fatal familial insomnia’?

* It is an inherited disorder.
* It has only been detected in about 28 families in the world, that have the dominant gene.
* Only about 50% of the people with the dominant gene develop the disorder.
* There is no cure at this time.
* The onset starts at 30 to 60 years of age.
* The sleep disorder usually runs about 7 to 18 months.

Fatal familial insomnia disease runs a cycle of 4 stages.

* Stage 1-the sufferer deals with increased insomnia
1. He or she experiences sever panic attacks brought on by lack of sleep
2. He or she develops various kinds of phobias
3. The duration lasts about 4 months
* Stage 2-hallucinations begin to occur
1. He or she has increased and obvious panic attacks
2. The duration lasts about 5 months
* Stage 3-absolute, total inability to sleep
1. Extreme weight loss occurs
2. Duration lasts about 3 months
* Stage 4-the onset of dementia takes hold of the sufferer
1. He or she becomes irresponsive and mute
2. The duration lasts about 6 months

The content of these stages of ‘fatal familial insomnia disease’ are similar to those for Alzheimer’s disease. However, you will notice the time frame and duration differs dramatically for each disease. Where fatal familial insomnia is over a course of months to a little over a year; in comparison to Alzheimer’s sufferers have a course of several years to cope. Plus, Alzheimers’s disease progressively deteriorates the mental capabilities to the degree of complete loss of memory.

There is a great concern on treatment for fatal familial insomnia. Medical science has no insights as to why it is fatal or creating effective treatment options to help or cure the problem. Neither sleeping pills nor non-medicinal therapy work to alleviate the condition.

With the expanding knowledge and genetic testing on inherited diseases and disorders; menical science will be able to find a fix that can be medicinally or therapeutically prescribed to help sufferers. Depending on how the medical world pays attention to this disorder and pushes for necessary funding to develop a cure. Through effective genetic testing and following families’ history from generation to generation; will medical science be able to determine if fatal familial insomnia disease occurs in each generation or skips a generation. Determining a pattern for the disease will be one step closer to a cure.

Fatal familial insomnia disease is rare enough, it doesn’t get the research needed for a cure as other sleep disorders get. Yet, it’s NOT rare enough to get the proper recognition to qualify for the treatment research programs.

At the rate medical science technology is developing; it is just a matter of time, they will catch up and have the help that over 60 million people world wide need to receive a restful night of sleep.

Abhishek Agarwal

http://www.articlesbase.com/sleep-articles/fatal-familial-insomnia-little-known-facts-about-this-rare-disorder-739590.html

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For the past week or so I’ve been waking up at the exact same time every night and I start hallucinating, shaking and crying and I don’t even know what I’m upset about.
I do have an anxiety and depression disorder, OCD, and I have a history of severe panic/anxiety attacks, and once I even had to be hospitalized because of it.
I also have ASD, Aspergers syndrome, and ADHD if that helps with anything.

Is there something wrong with me, and should I consult a docter/therapist about this? I am currently on a new medication for anxiety, but it shouldn’t cause anything like this.

What to do..?

You probably have celiac disease, which is an intolerance to gluten in your diet. It’s associated with ALL of those conditions. Try gluten free diet for a few weeks, I guarantee your OCD, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and panic attacks will go away soon. My anxiety was gone in like 3 days. The aspergers is believed to be caused by being exposed to antibodies while in utero (in other words, your mom has it too). So it won’t resolve, but it points to the diagnosis. Let me know if you have any questions.

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Panic attacks only at night?

Within the past 2 weeks I have been having what I can only guess are panic attacks at night. I lay down and get comfortable. As soon as I start to relax and get sleepy, a tingle starts to overwhelm my body. My heart starts pounding and it feels like I am gonna choke on my breath. I jump out of bed because I think I am going to stop breathing. I lay back in bed and feel my stomach churning, I am sweating, and my lips tingle. It feel exactly like the moment before you are going to throw up but you never do. . .only with a pounding heart and a short of breath. It comes in waves. As of late, I have been waking up in the middle of one of these episodes. I have always dealt with depression and started getting treatment for it last week (low dose of prozac). Do these episodes sound like panic attacks or could this be a heart issue? I only seems to get them at night. Except when I don’t sleep, then the feeling sort of bleeds into the day time. I am 28 years old and in good shape.

Yeah, it sounds like you’re having sleep panic attacks, I highly doubt that you are suffering from some kind of heart problem. You might want to see a doctor just in case though.

Sleep panic attack symptoms closely resemble a heart attack and you’re more likely to injure themselves when you are in a comatose state. During sleep panic attacks, you are awoken right in the middle of a panic attack without the escalations of symptoms leading to that attack.

When you notice you’re having an attack, stop trying to resist it and welcome all the feelings full force. A lot of the suffering in a panic attack comes from simply resisting the symptoms in the first place. If you let them run their course, the episode will be done with faster and you’ll release all that anxiety.

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