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Diva,
Thanks for filling this question! Much appreciated! Also be sure to thank your nurse for us as well.
Danielle
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Hello Madara,
I have just called a professional nurse from my local health center to try and answer this for you. She said that tingling arms and hands and feet and face etc are a very common symptom of anxiety and panic attacks. She said it is not dangerous to have tingly arms and hands when you are having a panic attack that it is quite common in fact, She says it can be related to hyperventilation but not always. some people have tinlgy or numb arms ets even if they don't hyperventilate. She said tho that learning the breathing exercises is still helpful even for those who don't hyperventilate. She said that focusing on proper breathing helps your body relax faster and the more relaxed you are the faster your symptoms go away. So that one way or another breathing techniques are really quite a great tool to help control panic attacks and keep them as small and as short as possible. I hope this helps!
-Diva
Reading through this forum, I noticed some posts on tingling.
(Tingly arms is my worst dread, I am not so afraid of heart palpilation, hyperventilation, trembling etc. as I am afraid of tingling and numbness. It comes from the past- once I was so drunk that the next day I experienced tingly body and a slight paralysis in a car. My boyfriend called ambulance and they said it was because of alcohol. I felt that I was going to die, really weak and desperate. From that day I my panic attacks started. I learned to be afraid of tingling, closed places and being far away from "safe" places).
I've read in the forum that tingling is connected with hyperventilation. What does it mean? Does tingling start when I have forced beathing and can I stop my arms to tingle when I start to breath as my psychoterapists has tought me?
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