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Today at work I suddenly felt "out of it", I broke out in a sweat, my pulse went up, I started trembling and I felt a mild sense of anxiety. It lasted for several minutes. I've felt this before and I've always associated it with a drop in blood sugar. The thing is I had just eaten a meal only a half an hour before. This has happened before when I've had an attack but had eaten recently. I have been very overloaded the last few days and I wondered if what I really was experiencing was a mild anxiety attack. I looked up the symptoms and the similarity between the low blood sugar and the generalized anxiety attack are very similar. I have wondered why I seem to have low blood sugar attacks when have already eaten. Maybe I hadn't considered an anxiety attack because I wasn't in a full blown panic and had no irrational thoughts about impending doom. I just felt this generalized unease. What do you think? Oh and BTW the site about anxiety attack symptomology mentioned an intense craving for sugar, which further blurs the two. When this happens to me I don't fall down or anything but I can't do anything until it's over.

sounds like a panic attack

Can I ask how old you are, Aimless? I have a feeling it might be hormonal. I get the same thing. Also eating takes a lot of energy so some of the peripheral blood leaves the extremities to rush to the gut, your core temperature rises(so you feel cold) and your blood sugar can change dramatically(sorry, very broad description and probably not in the right order of operations ) . Have you had your thyroid checked recently? It can feel like a general sense of unease, bordering on dread. If that is what it is like, I hear you.

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I used to have 'panic attacks' every morning for a few weeks in HS. Eventually, I realized it was a drug interaction. It's something you always have to be aware of.

I am 52 and post menopausal. I have had my thyroid checked as a teen and as an adult and no problems were seen. This doesn't happen every time I eat. The only time I've had what feels like a low blood sugar attack after eating is if I've eaten something high sugar and nothing else. I believe I have reactive hypoglycemia. The reason I'm wondering about the anxiety is yesterday I had what was for me close to a meltdown at my meds management appointment. My car broke down yesterday when I was in a rush anyway and life just kind of piles up sometimes, you know? My reaction to stress usually is to feel intense fatigue which is how I was most of the day. When I got home I fell asleep for two hours and then later I was trying to watch the news when my son was on the computer playing a game with headphones on and making irritating noises and I found I couldn't concentrate on the news with the noise he was making and I suddenly felt like screaming at him. I didn't, but this is why I'm thinking it's anxiety related.

Something like that happened to me once. I was just watching TV and a guy said something that just seemed HORRIBLE. I have no idea why, but it just caused so much sudden anxiety that I had to go hide under the covers (Childish, I know.) until I could breath again.

I've actualy "fainted" due to anxiety. I can still, see hear and feel but I have no control of my body. My parents think I am making it up for attention. I've always assumed it is like those Tennessee still-leg/fainting goats.