I wanted to see if anyone else has had this happen to them. This morning I felt pretty good so after taking my son to school I ran some errands. I was feeling a little bit off but I kept on going by the time I went to the grocery store I was so out of sorts I forgot why I was there.

I came home and took a nap hoping to sleep it off like I usually do but I woke up with a head and neck ache and still felt bad. When I went to pick up my son I was so dizzy and scared I didn't even want to go into the school.

I didn't have any panic attacks, I just felt dizzy, spacey, and sick to my stomach.

Has anyone had this happen where things start off good but then go from bad to worse? All I can think of it that I did to much to soon!

Hi Pink Pirate! I don't have the exact symptoms, but I can relate to feeling fine one minute and then panicky and sick the next. This has been happening fairly frequently to me over the last three years. Mostly what happens is I will have a funny feeling in my stomach, then I start to panic that I'm going to get nauseous, and be trapped wherever I am when it happens like the car or in my office on the 26th floor of my builidng where I work. Then what usually happens is I do get nauseous. I used to think there was something wrong with my stomach, but I've come to realize it is panic and anxiety. I am on week 7, but feel like I've hit a wall in progress. I have used the breathing techniques with some success. I like Carolyn's self-talk "there is no danger". I wish you the best of luck!

Thank you for you help and understanding. I waited to write agian for a few days so that I could test the suggestions that Carolyn had.

On Saturday we drove about 40 minutes to take my son to Chuck E Cheese and on the way I started to feel the tightening in my chest and a little dizzy I think that I was thinking about all the kids that would be there on a Saturday night. So I tried the breathing and it worked a little. And I made it through Chuck E Cheese and some shopping afterwards.

On Monday I had another Anxiety spell in a car wash because I felt trapped in there with all the water and brushes. I did the breathing and it helped me relax until our car came out on the other side.

As for doing to much to soon I have really just tried to slow down and not over schedual myself.

Great support MH.

Pink, can you remember how you were breathing? I couldn't believe how much my thoughts and the associated breathing influenced my physical symptoms.

right now the number ONE thing is to underreact to this. Just name it anxiety (or if it turns out to be the flu, or blood sugar bounce so be it...), deal with it as lesson 2 and 3 suggests. JUST anxiety (tough to hear I know) I used the mantra, "There is No danger. There is NO emergency. I can calm myself down. I will breathe 2-4 and allow time for slowing down...there is no emergency..."

Try this each time it happens and see how you feel this week. Please let us know, Carolyn

More posts please-great topic to weigh in on.

I've been dealing with something like this for the past few days. On Tues I was doing fine, went about my business, then at around lunchtime I handed my kids a piece of cheese and suddenly my head went numb and I went into major panic mode for the rest of the day. There was something in particular that I was worrying about but trying not to think about. Anyway, it threw me off and I've been fighting it off for a couple of days. I've also noticed that if I don't eat every couple of hours this happens to me. I'm discovering that my blood sugar is closely linked to how I feel.

You might have just done too much if you usually avoid doing all of those things. That would be stressful and could cause what happened to you.