Wow! Y'all made some really good posts here! I'm being treated for panic attacks, I have been for a long time now. My anxiety never felt like this before, but I guess that's why I'm not recognizing it as such?! I'm so use to TOTAL devastation that this is mild in comparison! However, my pdoc should've been a little more observant of this, don't ya think??? I haven't had blood pressure or anything checked in a while, so I ought to do that too! I've recently been thru a number of big life changing events and I should take that into consideration. Gosh, sometimes it's so hard to see things clearly 'til someone else points it out and gets me thinkin' outside that little box in my head. It's kinda like being inside a tornado or something...I'm feeling a little silly for not having thought of these things myself. When things get going so good I don't want to open my eyes and acknowledge something ain't quite right and have to do something about it. Duh!