What is it?
A person with panic disorders can occur at anytime and one has regular feelings of irritable, anxious and stressed (when one is under pressure and can’t cope).
- The condition for most people develop in their teenagers years and in their twenties.
- The attack can last from 5-20 minutes and normally peaks at 10 minutes.
- Females tend to be more affected with this condition than males.
General anxiety
According to the DSM-5, a diagnosis of GAD requires anxiety and worry that are associated with at least three of the following six symptoms, occurring on more days than not, for at least 6 months:
- Restlessness or feeling keyed-up or on edge
- Being easily fatigued
- Difficulty concentrating or mind going blank
- Irritability
- Muscle tension
- Sleep disturbance
Diagnosis Tests
For diagnosis, symptoms must result in the patient’s impaired ability to function and cannot be attributed to a separate medical condition.
Cause
- Family history
- Work
- Stressful event
- Relationships
- Money problems
- Excessive worry and stress to situations:
- Extreme fear
- Distressing events
- Frightening events
- Panic disorder conditions (i.e. phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, confined spaces)
- Smoking
- High caffeine intake
- TANC2-related disorders
Syndromes
Medications with known potential to directly cause anxiety include:
- Corticosteroids (cortisone, dexamethasone, prednisone)
- Drugs for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: (amphetamine/dextroamphetamine, dexmethylphenidate, lisadexamfetamine, methylphenidate)
- Asthma medications (aminophylline, albuterol, salmeterol, theophylline)
- Thyroid medications (Armour Thyroid, levothyroxine)
- Seizure medications (phenytoin)
- Parkinson’s disease medications (levodopa and carbidopa)
- Heterocyclic antidepressants
- Atropine
- Cycloserine
- Digitalis
- Ephedrine (found in cold and flu products -decongestants)
- Epinephrine (found in cold and flu products -decongestants)
- Insulin
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors anti-depressants
- Nitrates
- Reserpine
Illicit drugs
Vitamins, herbals and minerals
Symptoms
(Symptoms can be intense)
Emotional:
- Irritated, depressed, anxiety and/or panic attacks?
- Depressed or low mood?
- Go over and over things?
- Have racing thoughts?
- Imagining the worst?
- Worry constantly?
- Over whelming feeling of fear?
- Strong feeling that something is going to happen?
- Fear of having another attack?
Physical:
- Chest pain?
- Churning stomach?
- Feel full quickly when eating trapped wind and burping (‘foul rotten egg smell’)?
- Dry mouth?
- Bad breath?
- Balance and dizziness?
- Heart palpitations, irregular heartbeats?
- Flushed face/Hot flushes and chills?
- Have cold feet and hands which can be numb and painful?
- Pain, numbness, burning and tingling ( pins and needles) sensation in one’s hands and fingers (thumb and/or index finger and/or middle finger and/or ring finger and/or small finger)?
- Sensitivity to every day noise and/or ringing noise within and/or difficulty hearing?
- Shaking and/or trembling?
- Short of breath?
- Sickness or nausea feeling?
- Increase thirst, heavy sweating and need to urinate frequently?
- Voice changes/or a hoarse voice?
- Long term persistent indigestion, frequent heartburn or constant abdominal pain?
Complications /Information to beware of/General tips:
This condition can lead to:
Please beware (as this could be of initial symptoms) of symptoms of:
Driving Authority
This condition may show similar symptoms to:
Please talk to your healthcare professional (i.e. Medical Doctor/Pharmacist) for further advice
Detailed Information
Please copy and paste any key words from the title: Panic Attack and/or Panic Disorder in the following respective 'Medtick References and/or Sources' to find out more about the disease (this also may include diagnosis tests and generic medical treatments).
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