Did I just experience some sort of a meltdown?

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A couple of hours ago, at a meeting, I suddenly felt tense-angry. NO PATIENCE! I didn´t say anything, but it grew stronger. I wanted to leave, but stayed. Over my evening soup, I had a stomach ache and began shaking and almost crying. At last I got a splitting headache, neckpain and wanted to scream. I actually cried (tears) and felt a flue-like feverish pain all over. I still feel feverish and about to cry - and tired.
Was that a meltdown?

I haven´t got a clue to what caused it - apart from impossible political arguments.

I occasionally have similar delayed meltdowns and I think it's down to age and experience. As you get older you learn to control meltdowns to a certain degree. Unfortunately, the meltdown will always surface and as the original focus of the trigger is missing the meltdown may not have the usual fireworks of shouting and desk-banging (or whatever) and instead consist of tears and post-adrenaline shaking. The symptoms you describe sound exactly like I used to feel when I was a kid after I'd had a fight due to a meltdown. All the adrenaline is gone and you're left a shaking wreck with a head and stomach ache.

Thank you That was enlightening!
I used to have rages as a teen and a young adult, banging the doors, so the wall- plaster fell down.
As an adult, I´ve learned to control things - and have actually become more fearful, than I should be.
It must have been the aftermath.

Me too. I punched through pretty much every panel in every door in our house, put my fist through a window, threw a glass bottle so it embedded itself in a plasterboard wall, punched myself in the head. It took many years to learn to control it and even now I still f**k up every now and then; the most recent being a broken windowsill from a thrown can of baked beans I've found controlled breathing allows the worst parts of my meltdowns to slowly dissipate.

...actually...so do I....BANG!

It almost sounds like menopause. I didnt know you could get such symptoms from a meltdown. Perhaps you should see a doctor.

No-no. I just wondered, because it was so strange and because I didn´t know, if I have ever had a meltdown.
Not menopause. I´m 63.

That sounds like a meltdown. I'm not sure though. I think you should get that checked with a mental health professional.

Why? It passed.