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Symptoms of panic attacks can be sweat, chills, flush, tremor, nausea ants, tingles, dizziness, fear, etc.
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Written by: Petros Skapinakis, MD, MPH, PhD, lecturer of Psychiatry in the University of Ioannina Medical School, Greece.
Eva Gerasi, postgraduate student in the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece.
First version:
26 Nov 2006.
Latest revision:
29 Mar 2007.
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I often feel stressed, together with chest pain and sweat. Do I have panic attacks? Describe anxiety attack symptoms and panic attack symptoms. What are the physical symptoms of anxiety and stress?
Answer:
Panic attacks and anxiety attacks are characterized by acute development of several of the following anxiety attack symptoms reaching peak severity within 10 minutes:
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Escalating subjective tension
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Chest pain or discomfort, palpitations, "pounding heart", tachycardia
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Sweating, chills, or hot flushes
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Tremor or "shakes"
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Feeling of choking, smothering or shortness of breath
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Nausea, "butterflies", or abdominal distress
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Dizziness, feeling light headed or faint
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Derealisation, depersonalisation
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Paraesthesias (feelings like an ant crawling on your body)
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Feeling of dying, loss of control or "going crazy"
Note: Many of the similar symptoms can be caused by a heart attack. Panic attack and heart attacks can be difficult to distinguish.
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