Do you have an unusual panic/anxiety attack symptom?
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I've heard that some people are experiencing unsual symptoms when having an anxiety/panic attack. If you are on of them, know that whether you understand it or not, that experience is valid 
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I want you to share those unusual symptoms here with us <3. Maybe there's someone out there who had the same experience . . . who knows? *shrugs*
How did you overcome it? How does it make you feel?
Thanks for sharing it with us 
When I get anxious I can't eat anything. I WILL throw it back up. My intrusive thoughts also get super intense. Like, "No one loves you... Jump in front of that bus." kind of thing. It can be really over whelming.
Hospitals and the smell of cinnamon are both huge triggers. At my last job I had to accompany Clients to the hospital all the time. I muddled through but usually by cracking jokes and chewing on nicotine gum.
@Ariana0492
I remember a time, just before I got medical help, when I felt nauseous all the time and could barely eat anything. I feel for you. The "jump in front of a bus" thoughts were also zapoing around like a million computer error messages: "your system will now shut down, click 'ok'", no other option on the screen! , it was exhaustingand when it comes from inside your own circuits, it is so hard to dismiss.
My physical symptoms(which are daily and almost constantly at this point) are continuous stomach ache..random hot patches all over my body..restless leg syndrome(at night), racing heart, heavy chest, body feels weird(almost like when someone has an allergic reaction to something) and my legs feel exhausted and strange..also get red spots on my palms..
I get this strong urge to start talking, if the anxiety is really strong. Saying what makes me nervous or something to try to stop the trigger, which can get me into trouble sometimes. But holding it in just makes the attacks stronger.
@HydrangeaField
Thanks for your post: I had that feeling that talking for me too was a way to sort of convert surges of...current into something that doesnt "electrocutes" me. And guess what, I never shut up! my kids tease me about it! With what you said a realise how much talking can be an immediate response to those "surges". I'm going to test something: when I realise the talking is not... just conversation, but regulator as well, I'll see if excusing myself and go record 20 minutes of whatever comes, and then deleting the audio, if that can help soothe the mind. Thanks Hydrangea!
@Charlie40 You think recording myself would help? I write in a journal. Is that similar?
@HydrangeaField
well, what you said made me want to try: like a journal, but audio, whenever the feeling comes, and then I can delete the audio, or keep it. I
@Charlie40 Oh, I'm glad I was able to help you and give you an idea. :) I hope it works out for you.
When I get anxiety I start to get real hot sometime sweat really anxious I move a lot sometimes its real hard to breathe lack of sleep than I get this fear feeling ugh
@EmikoKokoro So it only happened once but I remember an experience where my sudden sense of dread manifested into my nose tingling and not being able to breathe well. The breathing part is not unusual...it's was the nose tingling that confused me a bit. Usually that only happens when I'm about to cry about something, not with anxiety. And it wasn't a small sensation it was a rather intense feeling
@EmikoKokoro my panic attack give like a heavy pressure on my stomach and chest and makes it difficult to breathe it sucks..
When I'm experiencing extreme anxiety about a situation that's currently underway, my brain does this thing where it scrubs the emotions from my memories of the situation up until that moment. I can remember what objectively happened, but I don't have any feelings attached to it., and can go about my business. It can happen during arguments if I get overly alarmed, which doesn't usually sit well with the other person.
Occasionally, and more alarmingly, it'll also happen to my memories of people.
@EmikoKokoro Feeling so sweaty and uncomfortable in my clothes that I need to take a shower. :(
I start almost hyperventilating, and I can't take in air. My hands start to buzz like their asleep but I can't move them. My fingers are stuck in a curled position and it takes all I have to uncurl them. I'm insanely dizzy and things around me just start to move sideways and down at the same time. I see blotches of pink everywhere and my heart races.
@starsabove7303
The buzzy hand s and curled fingers, it happened to me once during an anxiety attack, very scary if you've never had it! My karate teacher was there, luckily, he told me that is because of all the extra oxygen arriving into the body because you breathed a lot more intensely. He said there is a way to rebalance that, with counting your breaths, (not easy to do when you are in the middle of an attack, I know): breathing in 2 "counts" slow, not fast, and then breathing out 3 slowly too, and if you can, pausing 1 (without blocking) before you breathe in again, then taking the next breath in real slow.This way, the Co2 and oxygen start re- balancing and help you unblock your fingers, and can get the attack to abate, if you keep breathing slow with 1 more count out than in. and all the time, you tell yourself "it's ok, I'm going to be ok". We were in a car park when it hit me, he got me to sit down and counted with me.
@Charlie40
Thats actually really nice to know. Thanks :)
@EmikoKokoro i get like chest pains that make me think im having a heart attack or something.. most of my anxiety is over stupid things like a random headache or pain in my foot & thinking the worst from there on so the chest pains really don