IGA deficiency
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Hmmm....interesting Polly. I was not aware that you could have a panic attack while asleep. I guess I could see that if you were already in a certain sleep stage like a night terror. This is the third time its happened to me and I'm always on my side. It feels very hormonal/neurological. I have been so fatigued lately house hold chores are a real chore! But this fatigue is intermittent and will let up at times. I don't think it is sleep apnea or heart related. (I'm a lean runner when I had the energy to run) I just think there is a missing piece of my puzzle I may never find....until my thyroid and adrenals just completely give out. The diet change really started the ball rolling. Thats the only connection I can make so far. Thanks for the input!
Vanessa
I believe you are probably right on target there, because I've checked my oxygenation level at such times, and found it to be excellent. But so far I've been unable to verify anxiety as an initial cause, because when it occurs, the only thing I seem to be anxious about is the breathing problem itself (after it appears).Polly wrote:Anxiety is a common cause, too, and often presents as an inability to take a deep breath. Often we are not aware that we have been hyperventilating until we can no longer take a deep breath. The best treatment in this case is to rebreathe exhaled air for a while from a paper bag tightly covering one's mouth/nose. It seems unlikely that anxiety would rear its ugly head while falling asleep, but it is actually possible to have a full-blown panic attack while asleep.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.