Posted by Victoria on March 16, 1999, at 18:52:21
In reply to head trauma and mood elevation, posted by Elizabeth on March 3, 1999, at 21:28:08
Not panic attacks, but I had an experience that might possibly be related. Last August, I had an injury, fell and hit my chin, causing a whiplash-type neck injury. That triggered post-traumatic fibromyalgia. I did experience a very unusual period of euphoria (a few hours long) the evening before I first began to develop the flu-like fibromyalgia symptoms. (Of course, I thought it was flu, and it took several months be be properly diagnosed, but that's another story.) The euphoria was something I had never experienced quite that way before, and does seem to me to be related to whatever chemical or other changes in my brain turned on the fibromyalgia.
> > I am happy that you seem to have gotten better,
> > Nancy, however the results you describe seem
> > to conform with the brain damage theory which many
> > anti-shock people claim-head trauma is associated with
> > many things, one being elevated mood.
>
> Steve,
>
> I don't want to argue the pros and cons of ECT, but I found this interesting because I often have a period of elation before a panic attack. Some doctors have speculated that my panic disorder may actually be a form of epilepsy due to some peculiar features such as this one.
>
> What do other people think? Does anyone else have this kind of "aura" around panic attacks?
>
> -elizabeth
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