Has anyone every had a panic attack where your left arm and other limbs get tingly?
I went to the er because of this they said i have panic attack disorder and prescribed me ativan? Just wondering what others side affects are from panic disorder. Thanks in advance.
Yes panic attacks commonly cause tingling and numbness. It happens when you hyperventilate - maybe you felt like you couldn't breathe properly yet you were breathing really deeply.
When you breathe out, you get rid of carbon dioxide. If you breathe faster, you get rid of more carbon dioxide than usual, so less is left in your blood. This changes the pH of your blood - it gets more alkaline. This then has lots of other effects, one of which is to make you very tingly and dizzy and generally feel weird. This is why people are sometimes told to breathe into a paper bag - they breathe back in some of the carbon dioxide they just breathed out, so they don't get rid of som much.