JayJay, check out biofeedback for your anxiety. It's something you can eventually learn to do on your own, and will develop the technique to actually bring yourself down from an anxiety attack. You will be able to do it anytime, anyplace...no meds...no need to be hooked up to anything...
I worked with a psychologist at first (he hooked me up to a machine which a showed a graph which showed my anxiety, and I could actually watch it decline as I learned the process. It's kind of like the graphs you see when you are in labor and watch as your contractions go up and down.) After awhile you will be able to bring it down just by using your mind.
It's really amazing and I got quite good at it. He told me that I would make a good candidate for hypnosis...I declined on that one cause I told him there was no way he was going to get me to bark like a dog...