Panic the day after drinking alcohol

a hangover is a result of dehydration from the alchohol increasing how frequently you pee, and from your body trying to digest and process the alcohol. they are not withdrawal. they are mostly dehydration.

I suffer panic attacks about 5 times a day, constant worry and Ive suffered panic attacks that severe twice so far after drinking heavily. I am 24 years old, female, a bit overweight, but been healthy my whole life until maybe the last year when I started stressing and worrying about everything! I had to quit my job, and lost a lot of friends. About 2 weeks ago, I woke up randomly with a bad attack (tingling, chest pain, dizzy, arm pain and a scared to death feelling) I had been worrying a lot to previously because I was having chest pain frequently so I thought it was heart related (thinking the worse) anyway, I went to the ER, they took my blood preassure, oxygen level and made me wait 9 hours, finally after getting in, they put me in a office room and I waited another hour before a nurse came in and started talking to me about mental health. I was then dignosed with severe Generalized Anxiety Disorder and OCD tendencies. He prescribed me 21 pills of Ativan and sent me home after checking my blood preassure again, and seeing how it went down from when I came in because I was calm, checked my breathing and my tyroid, said it was a panic attack, not a heart attack which is my biggest worry and even though I saw a doctor, I 'm still not convinced its not my heart because my panic attacks feel like that. I go to my first appoinment with mental health in 5 days. I hope they can help me, and I am going crazy because I am on a list for a family doctor and still haven't heard any word, so I will do what the ER doctor said and talk to them, hopefully they start me on a anti depressant or something for anxiety because I can't live like this everyday for the rest of my life. Tonight, I had a BAD attack after drinking last night... I am just calming down from it now lasted almost 3 hours, and the physical side of things were unreal. I think for anyone who drinks and has these attacks the best thing to do until you get your anxiety fixed properly is to lay off the sauce, because really it isn't worth it the next day.

I have suffered from this feeling of chest pain after drinking alcohol for years also and have recently found consuming vitamin c calms the sensation. If you drink alcohol always have fresh oranges ready to go for the next morning. The stress hormone cortisol is released due to vitamin c deficiency so eating a few oranges fixes everything.

I also wake up after drinking between 3-4am with panic attacks. Then I am usually depressed and unmotivated to do anything the next day.

 

Having suffered from a panic disorder for 30 plus years, I finally figured out why I feel an impending panic attack all day long after a night of drinking. For me, when I do have a panic attack on a regular day, in addition to the panic sensations of out of body feelings or disassociation, heightened awareness, adrenaline rush, etc., I get other physical symptoms of stomach upset, dizziness, heart palpitations (occasionally), nausea, etc... What I put together for myself is that those physical sensations of illness I experience after a night of drinking are misinterpreted by my mind/body as the same sensations of a panic attack. After having this disorder for so long and experiencing those physical sensations of illness so many times during a panic attack, they are now tied into a reflex of "something is wrong" thinking. At that point my body/mind reacts and interprets this as "I must be having a panic attack". It really sucks but now I know that if I plan on a night out with alcohol, I might need to take an extra dose of klonopin the next day and really rest if able. Now that I figured it out I don't get so freaked out about it. I just think, "this isn't a panic attack, I just don't feel well". I finally tied it in after getting ill with a stomach bug and noticed I felt panicked. It's only natural for our bodies to try to put things into context. For anxiety/panic disorder sufferers that context our body knows is anxiety.

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 I now repeat as a mantra (when about to have a panic attack) "this is a natural bodily reaction that is occurring OUT OF CONTEXT". It's true. We are programmed to react like this for dangerous situations to save our lives. It's just the flight or fight response...unfortunately for us it just happens at the wrong time and out of context.

What i can recommend you guys is after drinking eat alot of VITAMIN C 

i myself have that feelings to, after drinking but i eat alot of vitamin c.

 

lemons ,orange... use 10 lemons and make a great salad.  thats it.

 

that crappy feeling will not last so long so i dont care drinking anytime :)

OK everyone. This is called "the fear. Waking up in the middle if the nigh, wide awake and freaking out, after a night/ nights of drinking. This is 100% about diet. You body is releasing serotonin after each drink you take. Your body runs out quickly and when it tries to use another dose to keep you asleep all hell breaks lose. Eat carbs and tons of em. Like a whole pizza to yourself. It will subside. Try yo eat the carbs before you go out drinki

I had the exact same thing. Sucks to be able to feel every heart beat doesn't it? You were probably on a low carb diet like I was. This is due to a severely decreased level of saratonin in the brain. We need carbs horribly. If I would have know this at the time I would have eaten 2 large pizzas to myself and it would have taken care of itself.

I hadn't ever googled this until after I solved the problem for myself this month. Just registered to share in case it would help anyone. God knows how much it affected me over the years.


Drinking alcohol to the point where I have a hangover always resulted in me having near attacks or actual panic attacks ~24hrs later (i.e. the night after the night out). It has got worse over the years and this New Year's just gone was too much.

For over a decade, I have been eating well, I'm fit and active, working, happy etc etc. - it's just at the end of a hung-over day that it would all go wrong for me. Still the panic effects worsened.

I thought I'd try a different angle.

When I was a kid, I was tested for cholinesterase deficiency after a close relative had complications under anaesthesia. I have low cholinesterase activity. This means that my parasympathetic nervous system works a bit like a dripping/faulty faucet in that messages keep on dripping through - or even starting up of their own accord from a little too much dripping causing a flow in the next nerve down. The upshot is that when I make adrenaline, I over-produce and, and end up stressed. When I drink and after, there's more adrenaline.

The official medical line on cholinesterase deficiency is that it has zero impact on your life. It simply ain't so. My close relative, by the way, has revealed to me that they suffer similarly when drinking, and this is foremost in their mind when offered a drink which they usually decline.

Plan A was to find a way to boost my cholinesterase activity but I can't (but, boy did I find many ways to make it worse e.g. potatoes, tomatoes - so-called cholinesterase innhibitors) so I turned my attention to the adrenaline. If I'm over-producing and then becoming panicky from it, what can I do?

Simple. Fifty milligrams (50mg) Vitamin B3 on a full stomach. I didn't know anything about Vit B3 until just a couple of weeks ago. People take it as a supplement for some reason and there's this thing called the 'niacin flush'. Vitamin B3 is niacin. People advise getting around the risk of the flush (the flush feels like sunburn and makes you red for about 10 minutes, no big deal) by taking a different form of Vitamin B3. Unfortunately, that alternative is not going to help me because I need the adrenaline-preventing variety which is nicotinic acid (don't worry: not nicotene!) The no-flush variety is niacinamide, by the way.

50mg nicotinic acid / niacin / vitamin B3 and make sure it's the type which does not advertise itself as "flush safe".

To avoid the risk of a flush, do the following overkill method: -
1. have a 300mg aspirin before food (if you're ok with aspirin)
2. eat something relatively substantial (thin soup or a lettuce leaf won't cut it)
3. atfer you've had your meal, take 50mg niacin

One hour later it's busy mopping up the precursor chemicals your body might otherwise use to make adrenaline. This gives your system space to clean itself up.

Worked like absolute magic for me. I googled hangover panic attack this morning and was appalled to see the number of people out there who have this kind of problem. I'm not saying everyone has low cholinesterase activity, but niacin worked magic on me. I worried I had some kind of drinking-related nervous malaise. It feels good to know that I don't.

50mg is enough. It's small enough that you can take it more than once in a day, which is good news. With food, of course. Plan your hangover around avoiding cholinesterase inhibitors and getting niacin down your throat when it feels like time.

I'm not going to stick around on the forum, but I have the thread set to email me with replies, so I will come back in that circumstance. Panic attacks are so frightening. Wish you all well, whatever your circumstances.

Ciao

hey, try some vitamin B complex. i was going through this one time and i took a shot of vitamin b and several pills of it. my husband told me that he read that you lose vitamin B while drinking. i felt MUCH better afterwards. Just tired. Hope it helps!

This is the thing happened to me in flight I just drunk 4sips of wine then I slept. Once I got up I got this same irrational fear like some thing is wrong. I can't fly. I want to get down now itself and about death fear also on my family do I cannot control that panic those times Iam feeling like Iam becoming mental. I too want to know the clear reason for this problem and solution too.

Sorry to hear this I am going through the same same exact thing now exact a couple of things! Don't have a clue what to do me and the bottle as im writing my body is rushing!

these are some good points to read. tough subject. i dont get the hangovers and i have major anxiety problems. the problem is, when i took xanax it made me paranoid and i quit taking it. i never mixed the 2. never will. i got the world by the butt now, with a lot of stress dealing with the usual. wife, parents, job search, way too much time and just plain bored. this is not an easy task and i am embarrassed its kicking my butt. i also suffer from low confidence, dont know why. just is. thanks guys. appreciate it.

even if im tired i wake up. i always thought it was the other way, youd sleep all night. but, when im up im up.

My symptoms are quite different does anyone experience this:

After hard drinking day or 2 days drinking in a row. Eventually I wake up in the middle of the night sweating and havind DULL lower obdominal pain. somewhere around belly button area. It comes and goes and seems to come at its stongest when I try to fall asleep. I would also feel like im suffocating.  Anti axiety meds dont help as much. Usually lasts for a couple of days. During the day I feel like a zombi, drugged and super anxios. Keep going to doctors but they cant find anything.