Middle of the Night Awakening?

[Looly]

Does this sound anxiety related? I have been having anxiety problems but tonight something weird happened. I awoke to having a hard time figuring out what time it was - and when I fully awoke I awoke to burning across my entire back and across my entire chest with a feeling of anxiety and very elevated blood pressure. As I type this my back is burning and tingling. Has this happened to you. I also had a weird sense of breathing, but I am able to breath. Never had this before. Anxiety, heart, what?

 

[cathy1]

I always say get yourself checked out by a doctor before assuming something is anxiety - having said that, I used to wake up about 1 hour after I went to sleep with burning from my feet travelling up to my head - tingly in my hanRAB, a pulse rate that would skyrocket to 200+ beats per minute and would almost be over breathing like there was no bottom to by breath (hard to describe). I was diagnosed with hyperventilation syndrome. It took along time with MRI's, heart monitors etc etc. Once I realized what it was, and when I would wake up out of a dead sleep I would immediatley tell myself to CALM DOWN which would keep my heart from skyrocketing up. Once I knew what it was I was able to control it to a great degree. It happens only on occasion now.

Not saying this is what it is but strange things can happen when we sleep. Hyperventilation changes the body chemistry which gives you all the weird symptoms.