Hello everyone, I'm new here since anxiety/panic attacks are a rather new thing for me and currently I'm having the worst night yet. The strange thing is that the past week was pretty stressful and I have been feeling fine, but today before bed I suddenly felt dizzy/unsteady and that always scares me and now I'm up all night feeling bad. I usually feel like not getting enough air, being light headed, sweating and just generally feeling weak. It is comforting a bit that I had this for a year now and nothing really bad happened yet, but right now it isn't helping. Its like its coming in waves with me feeling like I'm nearly dying, back to kind of ok again and repeating. How can I even be sure that its anxiety and not something else? Its also very hard for me to control my thoughts and to stop thinking so much so its hard to fall asleep.


It started around one year ago when I suddenly felt dizzy/light headed. I'm having a hard time explaining my symptoms in English and even my own language. Since I'm not dizzy in the room spinning kind of way, more like a pressure in my head and neck area and feeling unsteady while sitting or standing. I have always been the nervous kind, it usually caused me to have stomach pains, but it changed one year ago with the dizziness. I did the usual tests like MRI and CT, getting my heart checked and everything turned out fine, except having some back problems, probably because of sitting in front of a PC a lot. I can imagine the back problems causing some dizziness which then makes me panic and it's like a circle thats hard to get out of. For the past year its always been there though, sometimes every day (but not as bad as tonight), sometimes I had a week where I felt fine. Dealing with this almost every day is damaging my general mental wellbeing too. I'm 30 years old and very worried that I will always have to deal with this and that it will never go away.


I'm moving abroad soon and am already very scared that I might feel this bad on the long flight. Just feeling hopeless and helpless right now. Maybe someone here has some tips but even if not, thank you for reading. Writing this distracts me a bit which seems to help.