Nocturnal Panic Attacks - Anxiety Message Board

nabyou · 04-20-2006, 01:02 AM

dose anyone here experaince night anxity attacks, this what happens to me, I will be sleeping and all of a suden I wake-up with a panic attack and my heart will be beating @ 150 - 170 beats a min. please let me know..thank you so much

lauralu2000 · 04-20-2006, 08:34 AM

Yes I have had them. It was like 10 to 15 years agao. This time around though my anxiety reared itself in a different manner.

However when i had these it was always within the first 2 hours of going to sleep. I would wake up from my heart beating so fast. It would pound so hard and fast that it would make my chest move ( I am female so you get the drift)My chest would hurt and I had what I called heart pains. Sometimes I would wake up to one of my arms just jumping off the bed from the shakes. That was the freakiest thing. At times I would literally jump out of bed from a deep sleep all in one motion. scared and breathing fast and my heart pounding arms shaking. I could not beleive this was anxiety at first. I could not believe once I was sleeping soundly how in the freakin world I could be woke up in this state when there was no stressfull event at the time. But it was anxiety....and it past. I haven't had those kinds of episodes since I divorced my ex. Hmmmmmmmm hehe I just had to add that. He was no picnic to live with.

This time however my anxiety has come back in relation to my daughter being dx'ed with a chronic illness. Now my anxiety is present differently.

What are your symptoms?
Hang in there....

hry33 · 04-20-2006, 10:40 AM

they are quite common, I didnt have any
I wonder if they are caused from having a dream

nabyou · 04-20-2006, 06:31 PM

thanks for your reply, How often Did/do you have them and for how long have been having them. I doesn't help that my HA is about my heart and I worry about heart attack.

I don't know why I worry about my heart I am very healthy, my blood work is tip top shap I am in the gym 5 times a week. Yet worry worry worry. My symptoms are usully pounding heart..

Another question do you guys get skippping heart beat or heart palpitations..
how often and for how long..Has anyone asked the docotors about it.

thank you very much for the support

confused32 · 04-20-2006, 07:13 PM

I had one of these attack 2 weeks ago tonite. I had been having bad anxiety all day. Went to bed about 10 and woke up at 1am with my heart beating out of my chest. My arms were numb and i couldnt breath. Called my mom she then called an ambulance. Spent the nite at the hospital, had a bunch of test ran but they say its anxiety and it was a nocturnal panic attack, i didnt know they exsisted. Now before bed i take an ativan and that helps me sleep through the nite. I worry EVERYDAY EVERYMINUTE of the day about my heart. If i get a chest pain, an arm pain, a back pain i always think its my heart. Right now its off and on jaw pains but i think its due from my mouth being clinched so much that its hurting my jaw. I cant get it out of my head that my heart is bad and these are all signs that i am going to have a heart attack or i am having one. They gave me paxil cr, i wont take it, just got some cymbalta today probably wont take it either, im a chicken of medicines i dont want all the side effects that may come with it. I guess with all the stress my stomache is in knots and making acid come up in my throat, it has been burning and hurts so she gave me meds for that to. I want to feel better but im scared of the medications.