There seems to be a connection in my situation, but!

allpod · Newbie User Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 1

I have made a connection.

Hi I am new to this forum but not to panic attacks. I am not cured, I just identified my problem six months ago. I have it bad and I have since junior high school. I just thought I was weak and tried to be a tough guy. I since was married for 28 years and raised three children and covered it up so well they never suspected a thing. I am 47 now and really sick and tired of this.

I found that working hard and staying occupied could slightly slow the number of attacks but not the intensity. Like the devil every time I thought I could avoid an attack it would blindside me ten times harder than the last. Still I am alive and I covered it up to avoid the shame of not being in control.

So, the result of working hard and staying busy to avoid attacks! Back surgery Hearing loss and copd. I was a bricklayer. By the ripe age of 30 I had worn my body out beyond repair, staying busy.

Over the last month talking with my mother she revealed to me she suffered from panic attacks. As bad as or worse than mine her whole life until ten years ago. I remember my dad telling me how sick she was for years and then the secrete! "We worked together every day" and he told us all on the job that the DR. gave her a bottle of sugar pills and told her she would be cured in less than five days but gave her a 30 day supply. She took two of them and has not had an attack since!

My next sorry-full encounter with panic attacks is regarding my daughter. 18 in her last year of school and a 4.0 GA. Very smart girl. She has been (Pretty too!) seeing her doctor now for two years for dizziness and headaches and sensations she can not put a finger on. She and I talked last month and I for the first time told her of my horrific lifetime with panic attacks and the symptoms I learned to live with. She broke down and cried, Daddy that’s exactly what happens to me.

No reason to describe the details of one of the most dreadful moments you can encounter you all know the game, however I found this.

My Mother started her panic attacks shortly after her father passed away she was an only child and very close to him. I started them when I was young living in a traumatic and violent alcoholic household. And sweet sweet Kelly my princess started hers just after a brutal divorce between her mother and I.

I see a pattern here. I have my attacks when I can no longer control my surroundings. “That’s leaving the house”! Thank God Moms over it, and I won’t rest until I get Kelly fixed up good!

I have witnessed signs of my son also gasping for air in conversations and the bulging terrified watering eyes. What is this curse and why do the medical professionals know so little about it?