Anxiety and/or Chronic Fatigue?

Good luck, these things do pass.

Thank you so much for your reply! At least knowing someone can identify with my symptoms helps me feel I am not going mad! I have recently downloaded a couple really good meditation apps which I listen to on my iphone. They do actually help me switch off and relax for a while. I also have a few books on mindful meditation and understanding/getting through anxiety. I recently consulted a brilliant nutritional naturopath who successfully helped me with an unrelated issue a few years ago. We are in the process of working out a plan and I have an app with her tomorrow. It is great to hear your daughter had good success healing the natural way too. I do hope she is still doing well! I think my symptoms are so broad and general, they could be related to many things. A process of elimination first I thought, hence booking myself in for various tests. Do you know much about anxiety too? Thanks again for your support and advice........ greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards

I have similar things as you do... including some hormonal issues (estrogen excess my entire life) which comes with migraines. I also suffer from anxiety from a young age and it seems to come in waves.

I recently had uncontrollable crying bouts for no reason, I would be shopping with my boyfriend and just start crying out of no where and literally could not figure out why..

I didnt go to work for 3 days because my anxiety was so bad I would debate for hours whether or not to go. Here I am a month later and I am fine. Still anxiety bouts but no more crying.

I also get mega tired even though I sleep like a rock for 7-8 hours a night, seriously I sleep like it was an olympic sport.. i fall asleep in 2 minutes or less.

I too get light headed, spacey, sleepy (could seriously fall asleep any place at any moment), sensitivity to light not particularly sound but when too many people talk at once i tend to space out or get mega irritated.

I do meditate and do yoga which is usually enough along with breathing exercises but sometimes it is just not enough. I was prescribed adivan but it made me even more sleepy, so I only take it if my anxiety is bad enough that my heart is racing and get nausea.

Its not fun but I here you sister! Get your naturopath to talk to you about possible thyroid problems/ adrenal fatigue. I too see one and they suspect this, we are working on the same things . Some thyroid dysfunction does not show up in tests.

A big thanks for your response :-) Yes it seems we are going through a very similar experience. I've always put any odd symptoms down to my anxiety. I'm only now exploring other causes, such as CFS. Honestly, sometimes after mooching on tinternet, I come away thinking I have every dreaded disease known to man!! Funny thing, I have never considered any hormonal issues. I've never had my hormone or vitamin levels checked. My GP is female and thinks it is anxiety related. She has never even mentioned anything hormonal.I've never felt this rough for so long with anxiety though. Admittedly when I think about it, this could be a build up of several months general anxiety, which has finally made my body tell me it's struggling to manage it? I'm also interested in your comment about adrenal fatigue. It's something my nutritional naturopath mentioned last week. I'll know more tomorrow when I speak with her. I think it's also worth me getting my hormone levels checked out too. I don't cry much though. How do you feel when your anxiety is particularly bad? Do you also get the muscle weakness, body like jelly feeling? Mine is worse in my fingers. toes and legs. I often feel shaky and weak too, then very tired. Not on an Olympic level like you though :-) My sleep is often disturbed. I'm also totally with you on the sound sensitive thing... if too many people are talking at once, I too become really irritated. It would be great if we could just switch our heads off for a rest sometimes eh?? How are you getting on just now? Have you ever been prescribed fluoxetine (Prozac) for your anxiety? Please also let me know how you get on with your Naturopath. Thanks again for finding the time to reply x

I had every medical test available with no results and a doctor after 6 months of this, then diagnosed CFS. Many other doctors did not recognise that CFS even existed.

I was devastated to hear that these symptoms could be with me anywhere between one year and life.

I read every book I could find on the subject, I also found a specialist who lectured and specialised in this area , he prescrbed the supplement Q10 and said that managing symtoms of anxiety would help too and in time I should feel better . He did ask me if my immune system had been comprimised in any way. 

It had been when I had been in hospital and been issued with an extraordinary amount of anti biotics. I was also told that many sufferers had at one time had Glandular fever. A simple blood test revealed that I had had this but never knew I had it at the time , it was probably something I thought was a bad cold.

Seven years on , I am dramatically better. However I have periods of fatique with a little flu like symptoms and heavy muscle weakness. Its managable though and I can acept I have periods of this every so often. I manage my symptoms by taking Q10 supplement. Evening primrose supplement and a good diet. I try not to overdo things and pace myself. I take care of myself as much as I can and rest for a while each afternoon , even twenty mins of quiet time sitting to relax. 

I also get a monthly B12 Injection which boosts my energy levels even though my bloods did not appear to be particularly low in B12.

I was very scared when I first got CFS and no one understood or could empathise with me , I always thought it would be easier to have a broken leg. 

I'm now not looking for why or how I got it. I accept it and manage it. I also manage my anxiety , still do not know if the two are linked , I really don'y know. I have both and I have a wonderful life and a healthy mind and body routine which I believe has helped enormously. (Excersise outwith the periods of  severe cronic fatique but importantly do what you can when it is mild or you are feeling well)

I sincerely hope that you are feeling much better and that it helps knowing that there are people like me that totally understand how frightening and frustrating

CFS is . You will get better, aceptance and positive determination are key.

take care.

I know this is quite an old thread now but after trawling the internet for an answer to my symptoms, yours seem to fit mine the best.

You mentioned you had a series of blood tests that all came back normal (as mine have too). After a whole 10 years of struggling with anxiety I'm looking for a cure now. It's always come in waves, lasting a week or two, the longest stint being when I first experienced anxiety 10 years ago which left me agoraphobic for 9 months. I got over that but it still showed it's ugly head every now and again. I could manage it knowing it would soon clear off in a week or two. It's a social anxiety usually, worrying about being out of my comfort zone.

This time is different. I lost my great nanny in May this year and I have felt horrendous ever since. I feel woozy and spacey (dream like), strange pressure feeling in my ears (like muffled but I can hear fine), forehead pressure headaches, heavy eyes (as if they're strained) and pressure on my nose (bridge area like sinus). I will suddenly come over with an extreme fatigue feeling throughout the day. I can't enjoy anything or concentrate properly! I feel exhausted!!

My mind is constantly ticking, I google my symptoms and get on a tangent of reading from one thread to another. I've mentioned to my doctor about my worries of having a brain tumour (after stumbling across a thread about it when googling my symptoms), this anxiety seems to be very health related. My doctor has checked me over several times as well as doing lots of blood tests which were all normal. Although I'm suffering these symptoms pretty much all the time (evenings are better), they are increased around the time of my period so have been prescribed cerazette mini pill so will pleased to see if it eliminates the feeling increasing during my next period.

I hope you're feeling a bit better now, you mentioned you were due to have a scan. Did you get any kind of result from this? Xx