kenziegirl, Thanks for sharing with us today. You have come to the right place! Please feel free to roam the site at your own pace. If you look to the left of the screen under "TOOLS" you will find many supportive tests. These tests are not diagnostic tools and are not a replacement or substitute for a physician's advice. The purpose of these tests is to prepare you with information that you can present to your physician. When you're finished the test, you can either print your Final Report or email it directly to your doctor. We also have developed a Panic Program. This program is 12-weeks and involves the tools mentioned above. Each session is based on the previous session, so we strongly advise that you work slowly through the program and not jump ahead. If you have any question or concerns with our €œTOOLS€, you can contact us support@paniccenter.net. We are the Support Specialist for The Panic Center and are open to any questions or concerns you may have. Check with your doctor about your meds, they will steer you in the right direction. You are on the right track and you are doing wonderfully. Please keep posting. Our members are very knowledgeable and supportive. Looking forward to hearing from you soon! Josie

Hi all. I've read through a lot of the posts and feel like I've finally found people who know what I've been going through. I've been having anxiety for about 20 years. Started when I woke up one night with my heart racing. Ended up in the ER. Saw many docs over the years thinking something was wrong with my heart and every test has been normal. My attacks almost always happend at night. I never saw a psychiatrist because I just figured that I had these benign heart beats, and just had to get over the fear, as the doctors would tell me. Over the years, I'd wake up with my heart racing and just breath calmly and try to get over it, that usually worked. Or if I had a big meal, my heart would beat hard when I would go to bed and I'd be unable to sleep from the fear of the heart pounding. But, that happened only once a month, at most. The other thing I've had off and on is depersonalization, ever since I was a kid, and some ocd stuff that has never really interfered strongly in my life. About a month ago I started to get the racing heart during the day along with tingling in my head/neck, feeling flush, feeling of impending doom like I had to get to the ER. I really thought that something awful was wrong with my heart. The flush feeling, tingling, and impending doom were new to me. I fought it until one day it happened while I was driving home and went to the ER. They took tests and they were negative. I ended up on an event monitor and that was negative too. The heart stuff has made me fearful again and brought the ocd stuff on big time. My ocd obsessions surround dying and death, etc. Last Thursday, on the day that I returned the event monitor, I woke up at night with one of these panic attacks and couldn't sleep the rest of the night. I was in a constant state of anxiety, shaky like coming off of adrenaline. Every time I'd try to sleep my heart would beat hard, but not fast. The next day I saw my doctor who spent a lot of time with me and said it sounded like generalized anxiety. I told her I had an appt with a psychiatrist coming up so she gave me a small number of xanax and Klonopin to get through till that appt. I was scared to take them, but the xanax was wonderful. The shakiness and anxiety eased and I actually slept. That night I took the Klo