Are these typical panic attack symptoms?

I have almost no strength in my arm or hands, and I feel like a need to be supported by something (i.e.; leaning).

I also have a pain somewhere in my back, and I feel very much "off in the distance". I feel like I’m going to drop any second, but I know that I won’t.

It started this evening when I was walking down a dark road to the store. All of a sudden, right in front of me was a huge deer, with red glowing eyes. I got scared. I guess I might have thought it might charge at me. I don’t know. My mind was in a fog. All of a sudden, I began hyperventilating and I couldn’t stop. Then I began shaking and just trembling. Soon after, I was inside the store, and I lost almost all of my upper body strength. I had to lean my upper body on the handle
of the cart for support, and just use my legs to move myself about. I also noticed when I went to pick up a box of disposable plastic food containers, that my hands weren’t opening, and I couldn’t move them, so I used my wrists to pick up the light weight box. When I got home, some of it subsided, but I still feel very distant, and I’m having to type in a strange way because of lack of strength.

I’ve had panic attacks before, many times. However, I normally only get a tight, clamping feeling in my chest and I hyperventilate.

Do these sound like panic symptoms to you?
If not, do you have any idea as to what’s going on?
I feel like there’s something wrong with me.

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