Panic attacks are not fun, I had one when I was 21 and ended up in hospital for a few days, like everyone else I thought I was
having a heart attack, I had been drinking heavily for four straight days and on the saturday sobered up and went to the doctor
to try and get a sick note for work, she took one look at me and knew I had been drinking, she hooked me up to an EKG and took blood
to see how my liver was, (to my surprise, she took pity on me and wrote a sick note to give to my boss) that saturday I was so shaky from alcohol withdrawal and could nt sleep all night, around 7.00am sunday morning
I was sitting upright in an arm chair nodding off to sleep when I got this massive electric shock in my chest and literally jumped out of the armchair
wide awake, later I found out that my heart had stopped and the brain had sent it a signal to fire up again, it felt like a jolt of electricity, not a nice feeling.
On the monday I went in to work and after a couple of hours things started going down hill, first light headed and turned pale, then hands went numb from pins
and needles, started to feel pain in my left arm, I sat down on the ground and one of the lads came over and I said I better go to the hospital because I think Im having a heart attack, they took me over there and ended up staying 4 days, mainly sleeping on medication, the doctor came to see me and basically said there was nothing wrong with my heart, I was nt going to die from a panic attack but I would die sooner or later from a heart attack if I continued drinking the way I was, he said the alcohol was making my heart work too hard and one day you ll be sitting on a bar stool and it will just stop and that will be that.I had to re-evaluate my life then and thats when I really went for the weight lifting, started working
out with a barbell at home and just progressed from there, cleaned up my diet and tried to better myself, I had a few episodes over the years and try to cope with them without going to hospital, xanax really works but I dont like taking it and get addicted really fast, also withdrawals from Xanax
and nearly as bad as alcohol withdrawals.
The guys who suffer from panic attacks I feel bad for, I brought it on myself through alcohol abuse but some people did nt do anything wrong but have this medical condition, it sucks and for me it was embarrassing also, especially when the doctor tells you theres nothing wrong with you.last thing, I had to stop smoking hash and weed, it brought it on big time (still does) I d be stoned in the check out queue with my snacks in the supermarket, I d have to put the fucking basket down and get the hell out of there.
Regards.