Panic Disorder

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These are sustained attacks with a range of physical symptoms including palpitations or a thumping heart, sweating and trembling, hot flushes or chills, feeling short of breath, sometimes with choking sensations, chest pains, feeling sick, dizzy or faint, and numbness, or pins and needles.

During a panic attack you tend to hyperventilate - you over-breathe and 'blow out' too much carbon dioxide, which changes the acidity in the blood.

This can then cause more symptoms such as confusion and cramps, and make others worse.

It got to the stage where I made my boyfriend follow me every time I got into my car to make sure I didn't have an accident.

Ironically, on one occasion, as he followed me, he shunted his car into the back of mine by mistake.

Afterwards I suffered with whiplash and any kind of driving was torment.

I took a month off work.

But I knew if I let it slip I could sink into some dark hole.

So I fought my way through the month to ensure I could get back to the office.

After the accident my GP prescribed Dothiepine, an antidepressant.

But after six or seven months, its effect was minimal.

In 1996 I saw a neurologist who carried out various co-ordination tests.

He suspected Meniere's disease - a disorder of the inner ear with similar symptoms - but soon ruled this out.

I returned to my GP, who thought I should try Prozac as he was convinced I was suffering some form of depression.

Prozac lifted my m...

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