Tips About Heart Attacks And Panic Attacks
Lorna Thorpe suffers from chronic panic and anxiety attacks. She writes in her journal, “It’s around midnight and I’m laying awake, finger on my pulse, afraid to go to sleep in case I never wake up. I’m not having palpitations, but I’m uncomfortably aware of my heartbeat and the physical presence of my heart in my chest.” She wonders if she should call a friend or go to the emergency room. She also wonders if she will burn to death in her sleep since there is a 1/10,000 risk that this could happen. She couldn’t find recent statistics on how many people die from heart attacks in their sleep but she checks her heart rate and contemplates dying anyway. At age 50 Lorna did have a heart attack. Lucky to have survived, she’s now redirected her attention toward understanding panic anxiety and exploring the link between incessant worrying and heart failure.
The life of a person suffering from attacks of stress and anxiety is full of relentless suffering. The individual feels constantly pumped up with stress, lurching from one manic rollercoaster to the next. Sometimes a specific event will trigger the panic anxiety, such as a sudden change in work responsibilities, hearing of someone’s illness, watching a news story about an assault or burglary on the news or sitting in standstill rush hour traffic. Following the event, the person may feel out of control for ten to thirty minutes, or it could spill over into the entire weekend, waxing and waning. Sometimes the panic attacks anxiety came out of nowhere and butterflies would appear in the stomach while putting on makeup, making a cup of tea or trying to fall asleep at night. Anxiety attack patients feel light-headed, confused, short of breath, sweaty and their limbs may go numb. They wonder if it will ever end or if they are crazy or if this stress can cause heart attacks?
A 1990 to 2002 British study of 57,615 patients diagnosed with panic and anxiety attacks disorder and 347,000 patients without symptoms of anxiety attacks found a few surprising links between heart attacks and panic attacks. Heart disease was more prevalent among everyone recently diagnosed with panic attack disorder. Heart disease for panic anxiety patients under 50 was especially high, as were female participants from 16 to 40 years of age. For those over age 50 with panic disorder, there was no increased incidence of heart attack. Researchers concluded that psychological strain contributes to coronary artery disease. Abnormal heart rates can contribute to heart disease. Hyperventilating can trigger a coronary artery spasm, which often leads to a heart attack. Additionally, they concluded secretion of stress hormones can create a ventricular arrhythmia.
Many people confuse heart and anxiety attacks because they feel so similar. According to the American Heart Association, heart attack victims will feel uncomfortable pressure/fullness/squeezing/pain in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes. They will feel pain extending to the shoulders, neck or down the left arm, and sweating, dizziness, nausea and shortness of breath also occur. The American Psychiatric Association says panic attack anxiety creates shortness of breath, chest pressure, dizziness, sweating, an accelerated heart rate, nausea, numbness in the arms, hot flashes or chills and the fear of death, going crazy or losing control. Since the two are very similar, people are advised to visit a hospital right away.
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