whats the difference between a panick attack & an asthma attack?

Question

Ive been experiencing one of these two for the past nine months & need to know.

Answer 1

Both make your chest feel tight. Both can feel like a heart attack. Both will freak you out. The most obvious difference is that during an asthma attack, your bronchial tubes close (the tubes that go into your lungs). It feels different. A panic attack can hurt your chest, make your breathing go crazy... but an asthma attack closes your lungs so you CAN'T breath. Panic attacks can make you hyperventilate (breath too much and feel faint). Make sense?

Answer 2

Asthma is an allergy and is triggered by something. The best non medication treatment for asthma is learning your triggers and avoiding them. Common triggers are smoke, dust, mold, mildew, plants, dust mites, pets and grass/weeds.

If you can not figure our your triggers, you may need to see an allergist and have allergy screening done. This may point out your triggers.

The National Asthma Prevention Program and the Expert Panel of Diagnosis and Management of Asthma both agree if you have to use a prescription inhaler such as albuterol more then two time per week, your asthma is NOT in control and you will need a prescription controller medication.

Controller medications are steroids (Asthmacort Asthmanex, Flovent, Pulmocort), Leukotriene modifier (Singulair, Aculade, Zyflo) or mast cell stabilizers (Cromolyn sodium, Intal, Tilade).

You may want to talk to your doctor about several strong controller medications and maybe Xolair shots.

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Answer 3

your doc can answer this question. but an asthma attack is when the bronchial tubes inflame and can't pass oxygen through them well. There is almost always wheezing the respiratory problems from panic attack usually are more like a hyperventilation - a fast breathing - you can't catch your breath because you are breathing so fast and hard. although, I imagine that if you are asthmatic a panic attack could bring on asthma.

Answer 4

have you been diagnosed with either? asthsma attacks can be pretty dangerous if you have a bad one. with those, primarily, your ability to breath is compromised. with a panic attack, your heart can race, you can have trouble catching your breath, get the shakes, sweat and a few other things. i suggest you talk to your doc and have him check you out. while panic attacks aren't deadly, they can feel as if they are. athsma can, of course, be very serious.