Diaphoresis
Having panic attacks for quite a long time has without doubt made you familiar with the symptoms of panic attack already. The hyperventilation, fainting and everything else; null But have you ever stopped and thought of what goes on inside your body when you get those signs? So, if you really want to know, then I will try to make them clear to you and articulate each symptoms of panic attack meticulously.
The first sign that we are going to talk about is hyperventilation or the feeling of drowning. I have not experienced being drowned yet but I sure know the feeling when you are hyperventilating. It feels similar to catching your breath after running really fast for an hour. You breathe very fast and your chest is in pain.
Because of the tightening of the muscles of your chest and the deficiency of oxygen in your body, the effect is hyperventilation. But the faster you breathe, the shallower your breathing becomes and so, you still get less oxygen.
So, due to the uneven breathing, it leads to another symptom which I will talk about – fainting. So, most individuals really faint when they have panic attacks but it is not applicable to all of them. This normally happens because of the loss of excessive carbon dioxide and lack of oxygen in the brain. Fainting is actually not injurious, what is injurious is when you hit your head into something hard when you faint.
One more common sign is tachycardia or palpitations. The rise in the heart rate is because of the sympathetic nervous response of the body. When you are under too many stress, or your body believes as if it is endangered by either an inner or outer factor, it will activate its sympathetic nervous response. The reaction will make you oppose or run from the cause of the stress.
How can it set your body? During the “battle” you will need the organs like lungs, heart and brain, so the focus is shifted to those organs. A vast amount of oxygen from the blood is needed to set these organs. And the better means to do this is by making your heart pump more, right?
The next normal sign is also an effect of sympathetic nervous response; it is known as diaphoresis or too much sweating. Excessive sweating during these times is because of the increased metabolism.
Upset stomach, bowel movement changes, and trembling are one of the many other panic attack symptoms that have not been explained here. In general, the sympathetic nervous response is the reason for all those signs. The important thing that you should realize though is that the symptoms will not kill you.
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