Anxiety: bouts of nervousness, dry flushing and nausea

@merry - no I have no diagnosed illness, but my anxiety attacks are so strong that I really do feel like a stroke or death is imminent. If I get really upset during the attack, it gets worse and hangs on longer. If I give in to it and say”who cares what happens”, it seems to go away faster. Beats me why!

@annedodrill44- I'm very glad that you aren't ill. Anxiety attacks and I go way back. I think that mine was triggered when I went to a University in CO and experienced incredible homesickness. After I flew back home I woke up next day and started gagging- or dry heaving. And for several years woke up every morning like that. I started splashing my face with cold water every morning and that would break it up, and if I was near a faucet when I was out and about I'd do the same thing.
When I went to a local University in RI I had to commute from Providence- About 45 minutes away. I drove down RT 95 dry heaving all the way on to campus.
Not that you have to have a major event in your life but mine went away after my first lobectomy. The fear of dying from cancer seemed to put things is a more realistic light. I'm not so much afraid of dying as I am of suffering. I don't want to die and after 3 more lung cancers I think about it, of course.

@annedodrill44- I'm very glad that you aren't ill. Anxiety attacks and I go way back. I think that mine was triggered when I went to a University in CO and experienced incredible homesickness. After I flew back home I woke up next day and started gagging- or dry heaving. And for several years woke up every morning like that. I started splashing my face with cold water every morning and that would break it up, and if I was near a faucet when I was out and about I'd do the same thing.
When I went to a local University in RI I had to commute from Providence- About 45 minutes away. I drove down RT 95 dry heaving all the way on to campus.
Not that you have to have a major event in your life but mine went away after my first lobectomy. The fear of dying from cancer seemed to put things is a more realistic light. I'm not so much afraid of dying as I am of suffering. I don't want to die and after 3 more lung cancers I think about it, of course.

@annedodrill44- I'd like to invite @grannynacky to join this discussion.
I've had 2 lobectomies for lung cancer. I'm sorry that I confused this issue. Lobectomies remove a lung lobe mainly because of cancer.
Anxiety attacks are triggered by something in your past that makes you feel very uncomfortable, maybe threatened or long buried in your mind. When adrenaline floods your body at the onset there are a lot of chemical changes that take place setting off a lot of physical reactions, like you had.
Here are some links that explains anxiety attacks, palpitations,...
Flushing can be caused by a number of things. Have you had any blood work?
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-palpitations/symptoms-causes/syc-20373196
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/panic-attacks/symptoms-causes/syc-20376021
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/generalized-anxiety-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20360803
Keep me posted!

Merry, thank you for responding and for sharing your experience. Oh yes, I’ve had plenty of blood work (all normal) and am scheduled for my annual physical at Mayo in March. Will let you all know if I learn anything new about treatment for anxiety!

I have an important update for all of you! A physician who has spent 4 years researching what is known as the “gut-brain axis” tells me he is convinced that anxiety, depression, and illness in general, does NOT stem from the brain but from the gut. If crucial microbes are depleted or off balance in the gut, you will be ill. He recommends a probiotic with the highest number of Lactobacillis you can find — I got mine at Costco and it’s called Trunature.
So I now eat yogurt for breakfast, have a cup of Kefir in the afternoon, and take the probiotic capsule following dinner. It is not recommended to take a probiotic on an empty stomach, or in the morning when most people take other meds.
After I added the above to my diet, I felt considerably better within a few days. Am I perfectly well? No. Uneasiness is my companion. But I have not had an anxiety attack in 2 weeks. For me, that’s improvement! Try this safe, relatively inexpensive, easy approach, and see if it helps you. Then let us know. Peace to all!