Relapse - First Panic attack in years

I'm had a panic attack today at work, and have very high anxiety still. Today at work around 3 I got up for water. I ended up drinking around 50oz of water within 10 minutes. I started having head pressure, and having trouble concentrating. I thought this was weird and googled "headache after drinking water". I found several hits referring to water intoxication and hyponatremia which can be a very serious and fatal condition. Needless to say I started to panic. I went to the vending machine and got peanuts and poured salt on them to try to increase my salt intake to counter all the water I drank. I'm really worried I might have caused some sort of damage to my body or brain.... I've also been a big water drinker, and I've had headaches in the past that may be related but I never made the correlation until now...

I'm 6 ft 200 lbs. I work in an office so I don't get any activity or sweat. I had 16 oz of water before I left for work today, and 10 oz of coffee at work. Right after lunch I had 18.5 oz of ice tea and 10 oz of coffee. Around 3 I drank all the water, around 50oz I'm estimating. After eating and adding salt I started to feel better, but I'm worried...

Hi AD,

Sorry to hear you had a PA at work today . I imagine it was pretty scary.
However, water intoxication/hyponatremia is very, very rare. I mean you'd have to drink essentially 2 swimming pools full of water to even break the surface of having either one. Was the water you had to drink cold per chance? Sometimes cold drinks can induce quick headaches. If not, they're probably completely unrelated. Either way, I know you'll be just fine!

I guess the best thing to do is from here be cautious and not take in more than 1L per hour, monitor my water intake.

Hi a_d,

I am glad you are feeling better now.

Hopefully this p/a was a situational one and done...

...but know we are here for support anytime you need it!

S.C.

nice!

Yeah definitely try to take sips instead of gulps.