In the article, we consider the symptoms and treatment of panic attacks with VVD.
Panic attacks are causeless and uncontrolled panic attacks - a fairly common symptom in humans. However, many who suffer from such disorders do not even suspect that such panic attacks can be well controlled and treated. They are characteristic of vegetative-vascular dystonia.
Causes of Dystonia
Symptoms of a panic attack during VVD are rather unpleasant.
The main causes of the syndrome, experts call a genetic predisposition, which has a significant effect on the patient’s nervous system in the presence of adverse environmental factors. Neuropsychiatric disorders lead to the activation of some processes, while others slow down at the same time, which negatively affects the systems of the human body, mainly the cardiovascular one.
In babies
Heredity factors in most cases affect the occurrence of vegetative-vascular dystonia in infants. A large role in children's health is given to the emotional state of a woman during pregnancy. With constant nervous tensions and frequent stresses in the first trimester, one should expect a negative effect on the nervous activity of the baby's brain. By themselves, children are emotionally unstable, and when accompanied by a child from birth in such a state, the likelihood of developing vegetative-vascular dystonia increases. How panic attacks manifest themselves during the IRR is interesting to many.
Reasons for adolescents
Over time, the child grows up and becomes a teenager. This period is not only a physiological process when children turn into adults externally, but also neurophysiology. In adolescents in transitional age, vegetative-vascular dystonia often appears due to constant conflicts, stress, endocrine system disorders, lack of motor activity, chronic diseases, and increased mental stress. These factors provoke the occurrence of VSD in adolescents.
In adults
The cause of pathology in adulthood is hormonal changes - the period after childbirth, menopause, pregnancy. It should be noted that women are more prone to dystonia than men. The symptoms of a panic attack with an IRR of the hypertonic type are discussed below.
During pregnancy
In particular, dystonia is undesirable during pregnancy, since any violation of a woman’s health will affect the baby. Another provoking factor in dystonia is overweight people. Obesity causes hypertension, which heavily loads the blood vessels and heart. For this reason, the onset of dystonia affects all age categories.
Symptoms of a panic attack during VSD
Vegetative-vascular dystonia does not have any specific signs and symptoms. This pathology is an extensive list of signs characterized by disorders of the nervous autonomic system. Other individual symptoms may indicate both dystonia and other diseases that are not associated with the functioning of the brain and nervous system. However, in general combination with other signs of the cardiac and vascular system, symptoms can indicate the occurrence of vegetative-vascular dystonia. It is characterized by the following manifestations:
- weakness;
- Dizziness
- fainting
- headache;
- drowsiness;
- sweating
- suspiciousness;
- heart rate increase;
- sudden mood swings;
- noise in ears;
- unstable body temperature;
- obsessive syndromes and phobias;
- obvious pains in the heart and sternum, change in heart rate.
Symptoms of a panic attack with a hypertensive type of VSD are manifested as follows. “Trigger” is an inner sense of danger and a stream of disturbing thoughts. The nervous system, they are perceived as an existing threat to life, adrenaline, cortisol are thrown into the bloodstream. In response, arterial vessels narrow, blood pressure rises, pulse rate and respiratory movements increase. Due to the increased ventilation of the lungs, the carbon dioxide content decreases, dizziness occurs, a sense of unreality of what is happening. Sweating, hot flashes, followed by chills, lack of air, an attack of severe shortness of breath, in some cases nausea, abdominal pain. The most common symptom is pain in the region of the heart, tachycardia, and palpitations. Crisis surges or seizures are poorly tolerated by older people who suffer from concomitant illnesses.
Symptoms of a panic attack during VVD cannot go unnoticed.
The essence of the phenomenon
A panic attack is an episodic alarming manifestation that begins suddenly without obvious reasons. Attacks last from a minute, can last for an hour and appear periodically, up to several times a week, or not at all to let you know about yourself for a long time. Panic attacks do not pose a threat to life, but frequent attacks can turn into phobias. For example, when an attack occurs during movement in the elevator, claustrophobia may occur. Such manifestations of the pathology can greatly poison the lives of patients and limit its family and social factors. At times, seizures are similar to seizures of epilepsy. It is possible, in principle, to get rid of panic attacks using various methods, which will be described later, however, the complete cure of the patient is not guaranteed.
Symptoms of a panic attack during IRR at night are very unpleasant. A panic attack at night often manifests itself much more intensively in comparison with paroxysmal anxiety attacks in the daytime. An attack lasts an average of up to 20 minutes. All the symptoms are most pronounced in the first five minutes of the crisis, then their intensity decreases. The attack can result in vomiting, urination, which is especially typical for children. After the cessation of the attack, a person has a feeling of depression.
Diagnostics
With vegetative-vascular dystonia, when there are no specific symptoms, the diagnosis is quite difficult to establish. Symptoms characteristic only of dystonia cannot be classified. Experts do not have any laboratory or hardware research methods that at least to some extent determined the presence of pathological manifestations. Classical procedures and analyzes are only helpful in identifying violations, but only in combination with other factors.
Often, specialists who do not want to delve into the intricacies of pathology or inexperience often prefer to explain a person’s anxiety with fatigue, pressure surges with hypertension, dizziness with hypodynamia. In adolescents, VSD is written off for the transition period, heredity, and so on. Among the standard recommendations are such as the need to reduce body weight, proper nutrition and greater physical activity. Prescribe a sedative, hoping that everything will normalize by itself. Naturally, such recommendations are based on certain experience, but problems cannot be finally resolved.
Surveys
To correctly diagnose the symptoms of a panic attack during VVD, a specialist needs to study the medical history, as well as the presence of pathology in the next of kin. The following tests may help:
- rheoencephalography;
- Magnetic resonance imaging;
- sonography;
- rheovasography;
- electrocardiography;
- consultations of a psychotherapist, endocrinologist, optometrist, neurologist and ENT specialist.
Symptoms of panic attacks with VSD and osteochondrosis can manifest themselves more strongly.
Disease treatment
With VVD, panic attacks can be eliminated, however, this requires medical attention, since the therapeutic regimen is determined by the causes that cause this disorder. First you need to go to the therapist to rule out the organic causes of this disorder. Additional consultations with a psychotherapist, cardiologist, neurologist, and endocrinologist may be required.
Drug therapy for VVD is aimed at eliminating concomitant chronic and viral diseases. The activity of the endocrine system is monitored, the functioning of the thyroid gland is given great importance. If necessary, hormonal drugs are prescribed. In crises, it is recommended to take medications that regulate the work of the heart, sedatives and vitamin preparations. With more severe manifestations, sedatives and antidepressants are prescribed: Diazepam, Piracetam, Carbamazepine, Amitriptyline, Pyritinol, Piracetam, psychotropic drugs: Sonapax, Mezapam, Grandaxin and Grandaxin Frenolone. "
How to cope with a panic attack during the IRR? In addition to drug therapy, physiotherapeutic procedures can bring great benefits: swimming, acupuncture, physiotherapy exercises, massage. It is recommended to go out of town for a short while for a change in everyday life.
Folk methods
For the purpose of prevention and therapy of vegetative-vascular dystonia, it is possible to use treatment with folk remedies in combination with medications prescribed by a doctor. In folk medicine, there are a lot of different herbal preparations, on the basis of which infusions and decoctions are made.
First collection: two parts of Rhodiola, mistletoe, Leuzea and angelica roots. Add to them three parts of valerian roots and St. John's wort, as well as four parts of licorice roots and rose hips. Everything should be well chopped, mixed. Two tablespoons of the collection are poured with boiling water (one and a half liters), infused in a thermos. The patient needs to drink half a glass three times a day. Therapy lasts about 2-3 months.
The second collection: a part of elecampane roots and mint, two parts of meadowsweet, nettle and horsetail, four parts of dandelion roots, birch buds and six parts of rose hips. The infusion is prepared in the same way as the previous one, it is drunk in the same way.
Another popular recipe involves the use of freshly squeezed juices, honey and wine. Take two hundred milliliters of juice of lemons, radishes, beets and carrots. Juice of fifteen heads of garlic is added, as well as two hundred milliliters of red wine and honey. All ingredients are mixed in a blender, taken one tablespoon half an hour before a meal three times a day. The treatment course lasts until the end of the remedy. The mixture itself is an excellent alternative to vitamins from a pharmacy, cleanses blood vessels well.
To all of the above, we can add that maintaining a healthy lifestyle, proper nutrition, mobility, and good sleep is relevant. It is advisable to walk as often as possible, since it perfectly strengthens the heart muscle and immunity.
Symptoms of a panic attack during VSD in adolescents are most often manifested.
Vegetative-vascular dystonia or panic disorder?
In such situations, Russian doctors most often make one of two diagnoses:
- neurocirculatory (vegetative-vascular) dystonia;
- panic disorder.
Doctors abroad do not make a diagnosis of vegetovascular dystonia . A similar disorder / disease is absent in the international classifiers of diseases DSM-IV and ICD-10. And for the symptoms described above, the term panic disorder exists. However, the difference is only in words.
Such a diagnosis as vegetative-vascular dystonia, in many sources, indicates somatic problems in the autonomic autonomic nervous system. The root of the pathology is physiology. Psychological problems appear later as a consequence.
Panic disorder
Panic disorder is located in the international classifier of diseases of the tenth edition in the section "Mental and behavioral disorders", which means that in the treatment of panic attacks, the main attention should be paid to the psyche, and only then physiology. That is why there are differences in treatment methods. For example, in panic disorder, the main therapeutic method is psychotherapy and antidepressants. According to foreign statistics, due to antidepressants, improvements occur in 80% of patients, and psychotherapy - 85% with such a disorder.
What do doctors prescribe more often?
With vegetative-vascular dystonia, the patient is prescribed tranquilizers, antidepressants, motherwort and valerian grass, vitamins, cerebrocorrector, nootropics, b-blockers.
The list is supplemented by fairly expensive procedures, including acupuncture, spa treatment, massage, aeroionotherapy, balneotherapy, physiotherapy, electrophoresis, electrosleep and dolphin therapy.
Reviews of the symptoms of a panic attack with VVD
There are a lot of recommendations on the Internet that talk about ways to get rid of panic attacks. However, practice shows that they work only with minor fears. If the disease is more serious, doctors advise against self-medication.
First you need to undergo a thorough medical examination to exclude possible dangerous organic diseases. If everything is in order in this area, then you should consult a psychotherapist and / or psychologist, and if the symptoms are too strong, consult a psychiatrist. The latter will prescribe pharmacological preparations according to the results of the examination to reduce the intensity of anxiety. Such a specialist as a psychologist will help to find and process the main cause of panic attacks.
With exclusively medical treatment, there is a chance that it will not be possible to finally get rid of fears, since the main reason will not be processed.
At the same time, when working exclusively with a psychologist, the degree of stress can increase at first, and there is also a risk of interruption of psychotherapy and the absence of a positive result. We looked at the symptoms and treatment of panic attacks with VVD.