Anxiety and Stress Forum - Anxiety Problem

Hey, new here. I decided a forum would be best to get some feedback for certain conditions and illnesses. I didn't think I would find one quite this active, though. Anyway, to my little problem. It started late thursday night last week. I was laying in bed and suddenly it felt like my heart skipped a beat. I told myself it was just doing that thing it sometimes does. No problem at all. Oh, was I wrong. My heart started fluttering. It felt like it was jumping up and down in my chest.

I decide to get up and get myself a drink. That usually helps in situations like these. Nope, no go. I try sitting down and breathing deeply. Still not working. I just could not calm myself down. By then I started shaking and sweating, and I can tell you all I have never been so scared in my life. I thought I was dying. The more I thought about an impending heart attack, the worse it got. My dad gave me an acid blocker, and that calmed my stomach down, but my heart was still having a little party in my chest.

I got a tad bit short of breath after a bit, and I think I had a panic attack. The room looked as if it was floating on water, and I got sick to my stomach. After another 10 minutes of that, I finally calmed down. I was able to go back to bed and fell asleep at 2 in the morning. The next day at school, I had another, yet minor, attack during 2nd block. It went away after half an hour. I was fine the rest of the day.

Friday night. We had a tornado warning in effect for our area. I usually get a little nervous when the siren goes off, and this time it was horrible. The moment the siren went off, my heartbeat sailed to a steady 100+ a minute, I began sweating and shaking, and I had to take deeper breaths. Saturday. I thought I was going to be fine and that my problem was just a short temporary one. Nope. 2 hours after I awoke, I had one. It wasn't near as severe. I actually thought it was indigestion, because that time it was focused in my stomach. Another acid blocker fixed that. I went to bed fine saturday night, although my heart did flutter a few times.

Sunday, I was fine. I had a very minor attack in the evening, but it went away. I went to bed last night with no fluttering and no discomforts. Today, I had another attack. This time on my way to school. It got bad enough during 1st block that I asked to see the nurse. She said that it sounded like an anxiety attack. After telling me that, I have been better all day today, with the exception of right now. It's making me nervous just typing about my past attacks.

Is there any way I can help this, because it's really cutting into my schoolwork and it's making a nervous wreck out of me lol. Also, I need to know if you all agree that i'm having anxiety attacks. They seem to happen when i'm scared or excited, and get worse if I think of negative things. I actually thought I had aids or something this morning. : \