Hi all. Hoping for a bit of advice on these symptoms and if it's something others have experienced. I've not been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder or similar, I've anyways had a bit of anxiety, particularly socially, but I've just managed it myself, but just recently I've been getting some weird symptoms. On a number of occasions over the past year I have experienced what I can only assume are panic attacks when I'm driving. I have no fear of driving, I've not had a recent accident or near miss when driving, I just find on occasions when pulling out to overtake a car usually I get a full on panicy feeling in my chest and feel like I'm loosing control, which makes driving in the fast lane dangerous and difficult! I get a similar feeling when getting to close to a sudden drop, even on a glass edged walkway, I get the same feeling in my chest and go dizzy and feel like I'm losing control and going to fall.
I'm 33 and have never experienced anything like this before. The only thing that has changed recently is a couple of years ago I started getting bad gastric symptoms and abdominal pain, they never really found a reason for the nausea and vomiting I was getting, but it's improved on low dose amitriptyline, so they think it was something 'functional', and I get a lot of pain in the right side of my abdomen, which they think might be a trapped nerve, again helped slightly by the amitriptyline
I also find sometimes randomly at rest I get palpitations. I'm not thinking about anything in particular at the time.
I honestly don't know if these are anxiety/panic attacks, and if so what's bringing them on! I've been to my gp with so many vague complaints in the past I don't want to go to him again with random vague things.
Any experiences or advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'm 33 and have never experienced anything like this before. The only thing that has changed recently is a couple of years ago I started getting bad gastric symptoms and abdominal pain, they never really found a reason for the nausea and vomiting I was getting, but it's improved on low dose amitriptyline, so they think it was something 'functional', and I get a lot of pain in the right side of my abdomen, which they think might be a trapped nerve, again helped slightly by the amitriptyline
I also find sometimes randomly at rest I get palpitations. I'm not thinking about anything in particular at the time.
I honestly don't know if these are anxiety/panic attacks, and if so what's bringing them on! I've been to my gp with so many vague complaints in the past I don't want to go to him again with random vague things.
Any experiences or advice would be greatly appreciated.
