Thank you for input Hoosiermama. Maybe the better question isn't what is happening to me, because I certainly agree that they are panic attacks, but are there techniques that other people have used to combat them? Everything I read online has more to do with teenagers having sex for the first time and that isn't the case here. I really don't want to go on anxiety medicine just so I can relax during sex or intimacy, but that may be the short term solution. I know that before when I took medicine like that it had a very bad affect on my mentally so I shy I away from using them.