Hi, peeps i'll try to keep this as short as possible and sorry for all the spelling mystakes but my main question is is the head thing I get part of a panic attack........Read on.

Ok i've suffered from very mild panic attacks for a while like going to the dentist, flying on a plane etc but calm it with breathing.


Now 8 weeks ago I had my appendix out, no big deal really but. After I had the appendix out I had a very bad doria problem. Thinking I had one of these new hospital bugs I think I had a bad panic attack,( i'll explain the symptoms in a mo).

Went to the hospital a&e for a check up, blood tests found nothing.
Went to my doctor and she gave me some antibiotics, took one in the morning and one lunch time and by the evening I was off the planet and back down the hospital. Now the vital part. What I mean by of the planet is. Hot flushes, racing heart, feeling very hot but no temperature tingling but most off all a totally suicidal state of mind, after about 5 hrs this calmed down but has left me concurned about it as I have had it a couple of times since after eating something.

Latest event is the last 3 days where I got up on sunday with no worries in my mind what so ever I decided to have some serial for breakfast, crunchy nut. After starting to eat this within seconds I became very ill indeed all the same signs as before hot flushes, tingling etc etc and the suicidal state of mind. This lasted 4-5hrs and then went until the evening where it has come and gone and has subsided only 3hrs ago when I got back from work and had a glass of orange juice.
I have been off food over the last 3 days because of whats happened.

I've been to the doctors etc and i've told them I think I have a food allergy or some kind of toxin problem but I think this brings on these so called panic attacks.

Now these are what I get in these panic attacks.

# palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate
# sweating
# trembling or shaking
# sensations of shortness of breath or smothering
# feeling of choking
# chest pain or discomfort
# nausea or abdominal distress
# feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint
# derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself)
# fear of losing control or going crazy
# fear of dying
# paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)
# chills or hot flushes

all of them apart from the heart rate thing which seems to be fine.

Now its the fear of losing control or going crazy part that i'm questioning and only other people on here could probably answer this.
Is the mental state of my mind the suicidal feeling I get part of the panic attack as it is this part that I cannot handle or is this something else.

Now the closest thing I have read on the net to what I am feeling is this.



Now i'm not saying that i'm hypoglycaemic but it is because of the food/stomach thing I seem to have.

What you recon on the head thing???????

Cheers