Panic attack caused by allergy medication?

[roethlisberger3192]

I think I had some sort of panic attack, or just a mental breakdown, and I think it may have been caused by a combination of my prescription allergy medicine and school stress. I am a sixteen year old sophomore in high school in honors classes with about a 4.0 gpa at a difficult catholic school. All school year, I would, of course, get a little bit stressed during tests, but I had one of the worst experiences of my life this past wednesday: I almost lost it. I had just started my allergy medicine for this year; i had also used it last year, and nothing like this ever happened. The night before my big honors algebra 2 test, i felt really anxious, even though I studied for hours. When I sat down to take the test the next day, I answered a few of the easy short answer questions; then i got to one I didn't know. I skipped it, and moved on to the problems. The first one I couldn't do. As usual, I moved on to find one I could do, you know, to boost my confidence. Whoops out of space
Anyways, suddenly I couldn't do any of the problems. My face started to get really hot, I started get waves of cold sweat rushing over my body, I felt nasuous, and I could feel my heart racing. The room seemed way too bright, and I felt really dizzy and light headed being in there. I started breathing faster, and felt a terrible adrenaline rush. I jumped out of my seat, and then covered it up by asking my teacher a bs question. I don't know how long it was, 5, 10, maybe 15 minutes, but I started to calm down, did a few problems, then ran into another I suddenly couldn't remember how to do, and it all started over. I was frantically flipping through my test, and I couldn't do anything. I calmed down again, but there were only a few minutes until class ended. Is it possible that my allergy medicine could've caused more anxiety than normal, and then the stress of the test triggered an anxiety attack?
By the way, could this cause a phobia of tests? I had an honors chemistry test today that I started out doing really well on, then I hit a problem i couldn't do and felt that terrible feeling. This time, I somehow got a grip and pulled it together, and got through the test. My teacher graded it right away and I got one of the highest grades in the class! (a 96%). I guess I'm afraid of failure. Could that be the cause of these recurring panic attacks.
Okay, these details are getting kind of ridiculous, but when I was having my panic attack, suddenly scenes from Superbad started playing in my head, and Smoke on the Water, which I had listened to on the way to school started playing in my head. Now I'm afraid to listen to music on the same day as a test. Can one panic attack cause a phobia?
sorry for all these details. Another wierd thing that happened was that I felt like a litte kid; I was scared and I wanted my mom. So many wierd things happened at once that it's hard to remember all of them.

[wantsshy]

Yes it was likely a panic attack and if you take Allegra it can make matters worse, but more likely you are beginning to get panic disorder. Stay away from caffeine, nicotine, and get enough sleep. Try to get 30 minutes of cardio exercise daily. Eat well, don't be underweight and take a mult vitamin. If it continues to happen talk to 7your doctor you can take an SSRI like Zoloft or Paxil o prevent attacks