[Aliska]

Well, back then I didn't pay much attention, just took what they told me, didn't know what class of drugs things were and I took pharmacy for 1 year but didn't like it. I knew valium was a tranquillizer, didn't seem to do much for me.

In about 2005 or 06, I started getting six awful panic attacks a day for no good reason at all. Couldn't walk them off or anything, just had to wait until they were over in about 1/2 hour.

Well, before they started giving me xanax, when the worst ones hit around supper time, I would get in my car and start heading for the ER, not intending to actually go in the ER. It worked. They subsided a few blocks from the hospital.

But the xanax was a problem because you are in an out; it doesn't hold. So they put me on clonazepam. It works a lot better for me but none of that stuff makes me really feel any better otherwise.

[steve86]

Hope the clonazepam works out for you. My family has dealt with panic attacks also and although I personally have only had one full-fledged one, it was a doozy. I don't think most people can appreciate the sheer terror and acute sense of imminent death that these can entail.

"I would get in my car and start heading for the ER, not intending to actually go in the ER. It worked."

That's strikes me as funny because I have done similar things, not for the exact same reason or destination but it's a little reverse psychology played on yourself and can work.