I have GAD and panic attacks.

After a panic attack I get the obvious “adrenaline hangover”,  it then for days after, this happens:

I wake up, early. I usually get six hours sleep if I’m lucky.

For a minute, I’m fine. But it’s like my brain is just warming up, because like a switch is flicked, my stomach turns sour and my arms get tingly. Like really tingly. Like eventually they feel like my blood is too hot and it’s burning my nerves.

This has happened before, as I’ve had maybe ten major panic attacks like this in the last few years. Each time, for like a week to ten days I get these symptoms. I’m at the ten day mark and they’re only now starting to abate…a little.

I have noticed that if I get overstimulated or anxious the symptoms ramp up and I can also draw them down a tiny bit if I do calming work.

Does anyone have anything like this, with or without the panic attacks? I don’t think it’s like a serious medical thing, it’s just part of GAD manifesting and it’s unpleasant, But there’s not a lot of discussion of symptoms online and I’m just trying to reach out to people who might understand. Even if you don’t get these exact symptoms do you ever experience anything like this?