A 66-year-old woman presented to an urgent care clinic for 2 to 3weeks of general malaise, nausea/vomiting, night sweats, and dyspnea. On examination, she was tachycardic, and her laboratory evaluation was normal except for a lactate level of 4.4mmol/L and platelet count of 118脳 10 9...
If I’d known that my Christmas Day symptoms were that of a panic attack, I wouldn’t have sent myself into an even further health-anxiety spiral. “Common symptoms are a pounding or racing heart; sweats; chills; feeling faint, dizzy, or weak; and shortness of breath,” says Awstin ...