Constant physical symptoms 16 months help!!!!

Hello Mango6. I am suffering exactly as you are. I've been to the emergency room 3 times and numerous doctors and they never find anything g I'm a little older than you (47) but this may help you: while going from dr to dr trying to figure out what is wrong with me I found out I was suffering from perimenopause. My hormones are very low and they think this is what caused my anxiety and all of my many physical symptoms. I'm now on bioidentical progesterone and DHEA and I'm slowly starting to feel better. Good luck to you. 

Hi Mango

ive just re-read your thread. I'm just wondering, you said you'd tried many meds. Did you feel this bad before you took the meds? Or have you felt worse since taking the meds? Often they 'meds' can cause anxiety symptoms and it can take a while to recover from them.

Hi yes I felt this bad before meds I havnt taken any meds since christmas my doc thinks my body is so sensative it can't handle them so she said no more meds I have tried about 30 over last 18 months.carla do you manage to lead any sort of normal life  mine stopped 18 months ago I struggle to get my little boy to school and that's about it sometimes I can't even do that.for a week now my ears have been so bunged up I feel like I'm underwater and of course that makes my lightheaded ness worse.are your sympyoms constant 24/7 take care all xxx 

Hi Mango6, I first want to say thankyou for sharing what youve been going through. I have been surfing the web looking for people with symptoms like myself and ran across you on this discussion. I dealt with anxiety and depression in 1990 after the birth of my daughter and death of my brother 5 months later. It has been under control for years. I was on antidepressants for several yrs but didn't feel the need for it anymore so my Dr took me weaned me off but kept me on Atenolol for a palpitation issue I dealt with for years. But after a bad divorce 6 yrs ago, and then a bad relationship for 4 yrs  I started developing anxiety again. I knew how to handle the attacks so I dealt with it not knowing depression would get worse again as well. 5 months ago I began to develop tingling in my lower legs and in my hands which wouldn't go away. I lost my job, my car blew up and Ive been without a car and working from home for 6 months. My mind began to believe all kinds of things. Stress in your life with bring on many physical problems.

Next thing I knew I was at the emegency room unable to breath, chest pain, stomach pain,tingling, etc. they admitted me ran all types of blood work, EKG, CT scan, MRI of brain and spine etc. They found nothing wrong with me but I came home feeling the way I went in with no answers.

I realized my subconsious was developing these symptoms but didn't know how to stop it. I recently went to a Dr. who put me on Effexor but my first dose was horrible so I stopped taking it. The anxiety ramped up worse with it.

I feel my eyes and my head stay stressed all the time. I have started relaxation techniques through youtube which have helped but Im still far from over this.

I have continous days of worry and fear and do a lot of Body Scanning which is common in anxiety and keeps us self diagnosing. Its hurting my work, my life, and my health. we keep waiting for the next big blow to hit which keeps us in anxiety all the time. I sympothize with you and if you find out anything that helps let me know

I had this problem for about 2 years.  I was getting tingling and twitching and self diagnosing.  I thought I had motor neuron disease.  I had all the tests but everything was normal.  Of course even with these results you still think they have missed something.  I have had health anxiety for years and so far have not found a cure.  Therapy and meds help but not completely.  I have been working with health professionals to try and make doctors more aware af this disease and it's effect on the individual.   I think the worse thing for me is the internet.  I can spend all day and night looking up my symptoms.  Hope this helps a bit.  You are not on your own

Hi Mary..yes the internet is a wealth of information but also can be very harmful. Just like perscription drugs on TV. They throw out a drug and ask us to ask our Dr. about us trying it..Kinda scary because your mind can make you believe anything in the subconscious. I am currently ready a best seller called " the power of the subconscious mind" I encourage anyone dealing with anxiety to read it.

Also go to TEAL SWAN on youtube. She is amazing at teaching how to stop anxiety and why you deal with it. I enjoy her. I am going to expose some truth about myself here for a moment. When I had anxiety years ago it was because I thought I was dying and personally I didn't feel ready to die because I didn't think I would go to heaven. I felt like a dirty sinner who didn't deserve salvation. I tried to live my life right but there were ghost in my closet that kept telling me God didn't love me. Once I recieved Jesus I began years of relationship with Him and all my doubt fear and worry disappeared. I was no longer afraid and I didn't need medication because I was at peace. 6 yrs ago that all changed when my marriage fell apart. I began running around and sleeping around, hanging in bars, stopped going to church and ashamed to say it but I became an escort because I was on my own and couldn't find work. I was angry at God and ashamed of myself and that went on for a few months. During that time I met a man who was in a troubled marriage and he and I were both going through divorce. We leaned on each other for 4 almost 5 yrs. even talking about this now makes me anxious. I knew I was wrong to be with this man but kept trying to do things my way. Eventually we split and I now am in a new relationship. But all this past 6 yrs I have felt very distant from God, trying over and over to forgive myself. This is where my anxiety is and where my fear came back. I advise anyone not to do the things I did. Satan is there waiting to attack. The first thing to do is get to the root of your fear! Why do you fear dying? What makes you scared? Once we combat that and face it head on you can begin to heal. 

Hi Mango....like you, I've been frantically (obsessively) searching the web, looking for others who suffer from daily physical symptoms related to anxiety...I've had more medical tests than I can count, and the only diagnosis I've received is anxiety...the most troubling symptom for me is the dizziness/off-balance feeling I have almost every day (it feels as though I'm swaying/about to fall over even when I'm sitting or lying down)....and as often as I tell myself it's "just" anxiety, the sensation doesn't go away....it's difficult for me to go out and do the things I used to do without a thought (even going to the supermarket is not easy)....I miss the person I used to be and sometimes despair of ever feeling "normal" again....I'm doing my best to not fixate on the physical sensations, and "float" through them, but it's not easy....I'm so exhausted from this experience (it's been about sixteen months for me too)...the only advice I can offer is to try and remember that this too shall pass, difficult though that may be to believe at times...and take comfort from knowing that you're not alone in this....there are more of "us" out there than you might think! Take care

Hello all. i woul like to share my story. i also suffer from anxiety, it started about 8 years ago with a panic attack, I managed to get about 80 % of my life back and i thought I was going to be OKish. I have developed obsessive thoughts (horrible morbid) and depression, but I could still function and work. now about a week ago, my granny died and it all started again (I think it was the trigger, but not sure). I just cannot get calm, my body is tense, I am shaking inside, have got horrible thoughts about suicide and the feeling of guilt about everything I have done wrong in the past. I dont know how I am going to cope (btw. sorry, english is not my mother language)

Mango, I just found this old thread. Wondering how you are doing?

hello. i am curious to know how you are doing now?? i’m going through the exact same thing.

Hi I realise this is an old thread but I’m going through the same things and wonder how everyone is getting on now and how they have treated themselves?