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I'm hoping that more research would turn up what to do with as severe a reaction as you get-- the advice that's easy to find is about more average levels of anxiety.
My hypothesis is that if you got enough massage to be more relaxed in general, you'd find that you'd be less anxious when you started to meditate. However, this is merely a guess, and would involve a substantial investment of time and money unless you got into self-massage, in which case it would be time but not money. Probably not worth it unless you like massage anyway and/or more evidence that it's useful turns up.
Tentatively again-- if you have problems with anxiety under other circumstances, it could make sense to try anti-anxiety meds. If it's just meditation, then drugs might not be worth it.
I did find some sources about severe anxiety, but only from traumatic flashbacks or the like.
Turns out I already have data on that: I dropped from having several panic attacks a day to slight nervosity in specific situations. This changed nothing about meditation.
How did your panic attacks go away?
They faded away on their own accord over five years. Moving/changing schools helped more often than it hurt. Why do you ask?
I thought it might give a clue about how to lower meditation-related anxiety, but apparently not.