Panic attacks without hyperventilation?

[[ra...]]

I wonder if I'm the only one who has panic attacks without hyperventilation? My symptoms are feeling like I'm dying, shakes, dizziness, a bit weak and a general sense of terror. But no respiratory problems.

[[be...]]

All of mine were like that.

[[me...]]

Mine, too.  I've had many panic attacks in my adult life, extremely severe ones somethimes, but have never hyperventilated.

[[...]]

Mine too

[[be...]]

Me too. Rarely hyperventilate but have the symptoms.

[[Be...]]

I never hyperventilated during a panic attack. Only now that you ask do I think about the classic breathing into a brown bag thing.

[[ho...]]

What do you mean

[[Ce...]]

I've had them both ways. Neither one is easy. 

[[ho...]]

I get more general but severe and long lasting panic, so I don't call them panic attacks, but they are dreadful and last for hours.  I never hyperventilate. 

[[ho...]]

Do you mean like out of breath to where you paicing but your just still

[[be...]]

Hodge it means that you are over breathing (very very fast) and you expel too much carbon dioxide which makes you dizzy, faint etc. Breathing into a paper bag allows you to restore the carbon dioxide lost and helps your beathing to relax and calm down.

[[Ra...]]

I keep considering this question. I don't think I hyperventilate when I have a panic attack. I stop breathing and feel a sense of doom and like a wave of fear consuming my body.

[Guest [su...]]

I wonder if I'm the only one who has panic attacks without hyperventilation? My symptoms are feeling like I'm dying, shakes, dizziness, a bit weak and a general sense of terror. But no respiratory problems.

I have the same feeling as u do. No hyperventilation. But very fast heart rate and shakes. Tunnel vision. Flushes in my body.

[[ho...]]

I meant the without hyperventilatuon I know what hyperventylating is

[[...]]

I get more general but severe and long lasting panic, so I don't call them panic attacks, but they are dreadful and last for hours.  I never hyperventilate.

 

This sounds close to me. My pdoc always asks if i had physical symptoms of anxiety like hyperventilation, racing heart, but I never have. Perhaps it means I've never had a true panic attack, but what I have gotten is extended periods of pain, restlessness, fear, hopelessness, cold sweats, shaking. I don't mean 15 minutes, I mean hours.