Constant anxiety symptoms
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I'm 51 and have suffered from anxiety for 5 years now. it literally goes from one extreme to another. during the course of that time I have developed several real health issues that just feed and fuel my anxiety. very recently they put me on buspirone 10mg and 2 days in taking it I got debilitating dizziness which sent me to ER and I was told to stop the medication.
while detoxing from it I started to have pain in my leg and my mind immediately went to I may have a BC that will kill me in my sleep. If it wouldn't be that symptoms it would be something else. I have a long list of actual health issues past surgeries ect. But fear/anxiety has completely controlled and consumed my life.
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anne30266 valerie24561
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Valerie,
I also have similar symptoms that used to give me really bad panic attacks. I started sertraline 6 weeks ago and the medication seems to lessen up the symptoms. I still have anxiety and intrusive/obsessive thoughts about my health mainly, but i feel i can manage them better. I am on a 50 mg dose but am willing to increase if that helps me heal faster. I will also start working with a therapist in few weeks which I hope it'll help me get rid of my fears and worries.
valerie24561 anne30266
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I've seen a therapist for 5 years in my case I wish I could say it's helped but it hasn't. I have tried yoga breathing, several other breathing techniques, meditation, exercise and prayer. while I do have hope that one day something will help I haven't found what helps me yet.
emma05714 valerie24561
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hello,
I have been suffering from severe fears for some time now. I wish i knew the answer for you but i am in a position i can only give you my empathy, if you want to you can check my post, i share some similar fears. Therapy has not been helpful for me either, it is something that begins from our minds thus only we can control it. What tends to help me is to do things, to not let my mind go places i don't like. Try take sometime off, surround yourself with people you love, go on a trip, go hiking. Just let go of your responsibilities and thoughts for a day. See if while distracted your symptoms tend to be better. Maybe if while feeling less stressed your symptoms fade, your mind might slowly begin to realise that they are a creation of itself.
valerie24561 emma05714
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I also of course left out that I also participated in the the whole parade medication train too. You see all these commercials on TV and people telling us their is help out there, treatment for us. I believed that too and saw a psychiatrist a few years and tried countless cocktails of medication in the end I was so medicated that I could not stay awake. in this fog of not paying attention I realized I had put on over 100 lbs on that medication in a very short time. Now I probably would of understood more if I literally had eaten my way to that 100 lbs gain.
I understood that I couldn't keep taking all that. when I was awake it did very little for my anxiety. I do not even like the labels on health related anxiety the definition hypochondriac is not a fair representation of what we suffer. I really tried to do the traditional methods of medical professionals and therapy to be in this place 5 years later no better. I still lay awake at night and my mind conjures these images of what if....I never get better what if their is no hope in the mix of my REAL medical conditions. people I love do not understand. Only people who suffer the same understand.
I go to elaborate lengths to distract my mind. I end up awake most nights stressed out and trying to understand why my mind and body are betraying me. I have read articles, listened to hundreds of hours of meditation for anxiety and still here I am.
however for a couple years I did manage my anxiety well until my mother died then I had 3 surgeries in 2020 and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Then my anxiety took an express course back into my life and every thought.