Posted 8/16/2014 2:24 AM (GMT 0)
Hi all I really not sure if I am having panic attacks or not . I had vats surgery in march 2013 . all seemed ok after that and was doing well , a few weeks ago I started to go gym again, just doing some light weights and some tread mill walking and some swimming . After a few days of going I went on the treadmill and was out of breath . I know this is quiet normal for working out as my fitness level is so low after not doing anything for over a year since surgery due to being scared. But what followed this is what concerned me. I started to think about maybe my vats has gone wrong and my lung collapsed. I was having dizzy spells and my breathing was going bad , I could not get this out of my head . I stopped the gym which was three days ago and now I am feeling lot better, breathing has started to go normal again and I am not thinking about it so much , also a few little pains from the area of the op , but I do suspect this is because of maybe the exercise I have started to do, but this starts thoughts running through my head , which makes me think about my breathing , which then makes me focus on it and force my self to breath so I am not breathing naturally . This then makes me feel like crap and I am sure this puts me into a sort of panic attack mode . I just cant seem to forget about it now and I feel that I am making myself do this by panacking and thinking about it non stop. At this precise moment I am typing this and thinking about my breathing and am focusing on my breathing and forcing myself to breath which I am sure is just making me worse. If I don't think about it it seems to settle down and I start to feel better but it takes a few days . And now part of me is thinking to myself and telling myself to get back to the gym and get through this as I am sure the only way of getting through this is to carry on until I relise I am ok and to stop worrying over every little pain . I really don't know how to go about this . Any advice would be great