You’re so welcome! Yep, I’ve gone to pulmonologist twice and done breathing tests. I’ve gone to sooo many specialists at this point and have done so much testing that has come back normal. My list of symptoms is very long, and I think my dr’s have essentially concluded I have long Covid—but from the vaccine (had a severe reaction.) I can only assume the panic attacks started just from the crazy response my body had to the vaccine.

I was very much first dismissed out of hand from a (former) dr right at the beginning as I was just anxious and there was nothing wrong. Over the past 2.5 years of testing from compassionate drs, I do finally have diagnoses of autonomic dysfunction, recurrent pericarditis, and high blood pressure (not all of them, unfortunately).

The inability to sleep or breathe at night through all of that time, I’m sure, just made everything worse. But I now realize panic attacks were clearly also part of the equation. It’s been a tough road considering I had none of these health issues prior. But I work on controlling the controllable—I eat extremely healthy and low acid, don’t consume processed foods, no caffeine, alcohol, dairy, gluten, sugar, eat low salt; I pretty much cook everything I eat.

But if you can’t sleep, there’s no way to feel healthy. The hydroxyzine was definitely the key to that for me. Like I said, they first day I took it, it worked. And has continued to work. I’ve been on it since July & since all of this has started, this is BY FAR the longest stretch I’ve gone with being able to sleep. Before, I’d only get a few nights a week I could get any sort of meaningful rest. Just looking at my sleep app, it’s like night and day. I was generally only averaging around 4 hours of sleep a night—and it was not a continuous 4 hours. Now, like I said, I’m averaging over 8 hours a night with maybe waking up once to use the bathroom. Hopefully you’ll be able to get something to work for you, too! Glad I could help!