Hello Everyone,
The reason I found this site was because I googled anxiety attacks and heart racing. I have had anxiety attacks for YEARS. I am 25. I think they started around puberty. I am going to school to be a psychiatrist. Those who can't teach? hehe. I have to get into medical school now. That's neither here nor there. I've read quite a few post. At some point in the last ten years I have experienced almost every symptom you all have. I can say that it gets better. I have never taken medicine. How ironic? I try to will myself out of it. I want to be a psychiatrist because I think they over medicate us. So, I'm happy to have read all your post.
Okay, so my question to you all is...have any of you woke up in the middle of the night with your heart feeling like it's racing. Only it's really not. Maybe it's beating a little bit faster but it's not pounding in your ears. I can make it stop in a relatively short period of time. I tell myself, "Call down. Breathe. Go to sleep you're tired." And then I fall asleep and it doesn't happen again. Maybe for a few days, maybe until I take a nap, or maybe for a few months. I don't have this during the day. Of course part of my biggest fear is I'm having heart failure, I'm going to die, this will never stop, and feeling like nobody has experienced this before. It's awful. But as they say, "Misery loves company." So, someone please make me feel 'normal.'
Good night and good luck,
California :)
