Re: Panic Attacks (was Lysine; heart rate)

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Darcy writes,

> but at least when your heart starts

> racing and you feel like you can't breath, aren't you supposed to be

> feeling a sense of panic *then*?

Of course you are.

Isn't that why it's called Panic

>

> Attacks, because you feel a sense of panic with the racing heart,

> shallow breathing, etc.??

My panic attacks can and usually do happen when I am reading and for no

know reason my hear is racing, I can't swallow, I can't breathe. Of course,

I am in a panic situation. I wouldn't be having the problems mentioned if I

were not in a panic situation.

What I would like to know is why? Why do they happen when you are calm or

rather when I am calm? It is times like this that I have them and I do wish

that they would go away.

I can be having a good time doing something with friends or family and then

the panic feeling hits. I guess if you knew what causes them then you could

cure them but like so many other things with fibro, there is no answer.

If this doesn't make sense, I am sorry. I am trying to sort books to get

some boxes out of the house. They are cluttering the house up and I am not a

happy camper. It is taking a lot out of me.

I work until about 10:00 every evening. My husband keeps after me to stop but

I want to get them done before the 1st of July so that I can rest most of

that month before going to London.

I am very tired and in pain but I need to get this done. A compulsion will

not let me stop until I am finished.

Take care,

Irene

Books may well be the only true magic

Alice Hoffman