Hello i also have the same problem as you the social anxiety and panic attacks had 4 of them the last one being the most terrible of all, in my case the panic attacks are triggered when im in a place full of people that i don't know and they start making too much noise hearing about 40 people or so talking at the same time in a closed place for example it triggers a panic attack immediatly, the way i found to control those attacks when i am in places like that is to have close friends at my side, with people i like around the chances of having a attack are less , it also depends on the situation, in my 4th attack i was in a temp job and while i was in a small room taking a break to eat dinner suddenly another person walked in the room to eat aswell and i started to have some symptons and after a minute or two more 3 random people join us and the 4 of them start to talk loud about random things and it was awfull i had to leave that place immediatly and ran off to a place were i could be alone.

About the meds i used to take some anti depresants and one other that i don't remember, i didn't worry about abusing them but they did not have any affects on me my psychiatrist once changed my recipies and still no effects so about 3 months ago i stopped using them they were useless, don't know if i did the right thing or not but i won't take them anymore and will try to recover without their use, still need to tell my psychiatrist that i stopped them she still does not know about it. xD

Good luck on your recovery and thanks for sharing your experiences.