Do you get panic attacks?

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DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Panic Attack

A discrete period of intense fear or discomfort, in which four (or more) of the following symptoms developed abruptly and reached a peak within 10 minutes:

* Clear intense panic
* Palpitations, or accelerated heart rate
* Sweating
* Trembling or shaking
* Muscle tension
* Blurry vision
* Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering
* Feeling of choking
* Chest pain or discomfort
* Nausea or abdominal distress
* Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint
* Derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself)
* Fear of losing control or going insane
* Fear of dying
* Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations)
* Chills or hot flashes
* Weakness in the knees
* Confusion
* Tunnel vision
* Blank mind
* Sensing time going by very slowly
* Feeling the need to escape
* Feeling of warmth inside, expanding from within
* Head pressure, unlike headache

I do, especially when I'm in noisy places/crowds etc.

I do. In my early teens I used to have them pretty rarely; say, two or three times a year. I am 17 next week, and over the last few years I've been having them a lot more frequently. When I go through more difficult periods I have a few every week and it's very draining, and scary :/ I tend to have them when I am alone in my bedroom and my mind goes into overload about stressful things. Occasionally I have them at school in noisy classes or other places where there are a loaaad of people making a loaaad of different noises all of which I seem to be hearing at once. It's pretty embarrassing when that happens; everybody wants to know what's wrong and it's quite difficult to explain. :/

I voted yes but really it's that I used to get one. I don't know that I've had a real one in years. I still remember how awful they were, though. I used to just... like be scared to the core of my being, and start shaking uncontrollably, and think I was dying, or something worse than dying even. I don't know what changed, although maybe my PTSD got less intense and that did it, and I've also gotten more comfortable with life (and the idea of death doesn't scare me anymore, so thinking I'm going to die wouldn't have the same effect of terrifying me -- the few times I've been truly close to death from medical issues, I've been surprisingly calm about the possibility, and even the thought of loose ends I couldn't tie up just felt like "oh well I won't care if I'm dead"). Also I've lost some of my phobias, or at least lessened them, and that means like with emetophobia I'm not constantly afraid I might vomit somewhere anymore. I am really glad that I no longer get panic attacks because they're just... really bad. I hope I never have another one again.

Never. Not even once.

Yes, I started having them recently a few months after I turned 18, especially when I was smoking things that shouldn't be smoked. I've quit that now and I haven't had a panic attack since.

I didn't vote because I don't get them anymore but I did begin getting panic attacks when I was a teenager and it continued into my 20's.

I've had 4 panic attacks in my life.

I had my first panic attack in grade 7 when I was picked to read my essay out loud in front of my class. After that I developed public-speaking anxiety. I dreaded and avoided all such situations as that experience traumatized me. Recently, I was able to do it but I required some pharmaceutical and non-pharnaceutical help. I thought this type of reaction (panic attack) due to public-speaking was rare in Aspies but I'm not sure.

Yes. I used to get them when I got lost in the city. I haven't had one in awhile though.

Daily, before work each day. The hardest thing I ever did was cross the doorstep. The panic extended to cover all activities related to getting ready for work and the entire commute. I was unable to initiate activities such as showering, getting dressed, fixing my hair or makeup due to panic. I lost the ability to eat breakfast too. I'd sit on the bed shaking and crying every morning. Sometimes I'd go through all that, drive to work, and be unable to get out of my vehicle and enter the office. I'd be forced to turn around and return the hour and a half commute back home.

When seeing this thread i was about to hastily vote 'No'. However, after reading the possible symptoms (*Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint, *Fear of dying, *Confusion, * Chills or hot flashes, *Clear intense panic) I had to vote 'Yes'.

At the time i had down as shock from a very recent (hard) fall in the snow but i suppose it was technically a panic attack - ****** horrible as well

Yes, but it's been a few years, I think, since I had a full-fledged attack. They were worst in high school.

I've had 2 that I can remember, it happened a few years ago tho and it was after a recent surgery. I was told that after a surgery sometimes people become more sensitive and more prone to stress and panic attacks. One happened in a restaurant and the other at a mall, both times there was a lot of people around (inside the building and outside) and I ran to the bathroom to calm down and because the panic gave me nausea too and I was worried about getting sick. Since then I am always a little worried about crowds and I make sure I know where the bathroom is (I could always run outside too if I needed to).