Is it normal to have physically symptom when a person has an anxiety attack? When I have an anxiety attack?! I feel like I am drowning when I start hyperventilation that make me feel like I am dying. I start having chest pains that make me feel like I am having a heart attack. Or my hands become real shaky. Then I can't hang on to anything. Sometime my face will feel flush and my ear will ring. Is this normal? What can I dfo about these symptoms?