Poll How Long Do Most Of Your Panic Attacks Last?

[The Albatross]

Rare for me minutes to an hour or so.

 

[ihateusernames]

Not to hijack your thread but does anyone else get post panic attack pain in the chest, and surrounding area? I know I am over a long one because it hurts.

I get chest pain during and then muscle pain after, like I've been working out hard or something.

I only had my first panic attack a year and a half ago. (And then ever since.) It would have been nice to continue on about my life without them. Stupid body.

 

[Hope4Now]

I think my panic attacks are different from when I get flooded by a very emotional part. I live most of my life semi-flooded. The panic attacks when they come are like the extreme end of flooding. They have me frozen feeling that I cannot breathe and will die. They can last from minutes to several hours. I have learned how to manage the physical Symptoms of them to some extent. Basically I kind of live my life in a perpetual state of "simmer" so anything cans send my system into boiling over.

 

[SeaQuel]

As I just stated in this thread https://www.myptsd.com/threads/someone-is-stepping-on-my-throat.53010/#post-846314 mine generally last hours, sometimes days. But I still am not clear if what I'm experiencing is a panic attack or something else, because I don't fit the stereotype of someone collapsing to the ground, grasping for breath etc.

 

[DharmaGirl]

All of the above? Sometimes I can calm myself down, but I go into another one. If this happens, I usually take a klonopin after the third one. I have them at bedtime, and jump out of bed and have to stay up for hours doing something grounding, like cleaning, before I can go back to bed.

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

@DharmaGirl - Though I don't like your panic attacks, I like your post because that's how I feel.

 

[Ronin]

Most minutes, but greatly depends on if I'm injured, if I'm dissociated, or if I'm anywhere near a seizure. (If I'm injured, I calm down faster, it's like insta stopper. If I'm dissociated, it gets longer, so hours. Ditto seizures.)

 

[desiderata310]

depends.
What set it off?
How was I doing pre-panic attack?
Did I roll into a flashback?
Did I just roll out of a flashback?
Can something close by help me ground (sometimes, yes; sometimes,)
How has my sleep been?
etc etc etc


two nights ago I had a panic attack that lasted about 45ish minutes.
A week ago I had one that lasted 2 hours.
A few days before that I had been in a panic attack for the better part of a week. To be fair I was also on a med that made my panic attacks worse.
PTSD on steroids.

 

[Tanishq]

Several hours. This hampers my one day which is enough to disrupt whole rhythm of my life.

 

[holdenmonty]

yay I'm not weird for most of my panic attacks lasting an hour or so. All the people that I have talked to that said they should only last minutes

 

[Ed Norton]

No more of what I would consider panic. Technically no panic I learned just higher anxiety with more physical symptoms..heart, sweating breathing

I would say that I experienced low moderate in serverity for all my symptoms...I don't know how to rate nightmares they all suck and I can't separate my early symptoms it was much worse in the early middle stages

 

[killronaldreagan]

It normally takes about 5-7 days for me, the shortest one I've ever had was 2 though. I can't walk, talk, it's difficult. I have a MASSIVE thing of water by my bed because of it, otherwise I'd be unable to get it and die of dehydration. There was even one time I had a few in a row and wound up being unable to eat for so long I had distension, literal starvation, my stomach was swollen to the point where I looked like a man who'd somehow gotten pregnant