Do your anxiety symptoms last for days/weeks?

Just reading these posts are putting me at ease. I have been dealing with anxiety for about a month now. I have no idea what could have triggered this. I sleep fine that's the best part of my day is bedtime because then I don't have to deal with this feeling. I am not in terrible pain I just feel anxious and a tingling on my right side. I have shortness of breath and I feel like drinking alcohol is the only thing that helps me. It calms me, but it only works for a little while. And I'm sire drinking alcohol everyday is not healthy. I just want to feel better. I wake up feeling fine and then I remind my self I have no symptoms and then they come. It's like I'm telling myself to feel them. I hope we really find a way to cope with this and I'm all ears so please help if you can.

Back pain I have had for years with anxiety even though I no its anxiety I just can't except it always think it's cancer and and gunna find out its to late and I'm gunna die from it it's horrible does anyone no of anyway of helping the back pain everything I've tried doesn't work hope you all get better soon 

Hello I am 18 years old, I have been having panic attacks and anxiety for about 2 weeks now, I know it's not long but they have been the hardest two weeks of my life, i am worried about so much, I am so scared, but reading everyone's replies has made me feel a little better, knowing I can relate to someone and relate to someone's physical syptoms, I have just started getting chest pains and the rapid heart beat sensation scares me. Because when it all calms down my body akes, expesialy my chest, Because i got told its it was panic attacks and anxiety I couldn't believe that this could cause so much physical pain, but knowing it is due to anxiety, because of all you amazing people with the advice and story's I can just sleep a little better. So thank you

I have chest pains as well, and they in themselves makes the anxiety worse. But I was told by someone I met that they had the same issue and a chiropractor helped them. So I tried it once a week and my chest pains are almost never there now. But when they do come back they aren't as bad and if I pop my back or neck they usually go away. It's been a really big help. It has made my attacks farther apart. I still get them at times, some really bad but I have gone for a month or so without any. I'm hoping to change that record and make it 2 or 3. I hope this helps, it's helped me alot.

I had a panic attack today.and it's the worst thing iv experienced.I was driving with my 10 year old son. I feel a bit better than befor but I'm scared to go out. Why does it happen. It was out of the blue.

Hi Nicola,

I understand how you feel. I've had constant anxiety for the past 4 years. At times I have my good days while others are so bad that I feel like Im dying and need to get to the hospital.

If you try to relax (I try really hard yet most of the time I fail but when I do manage to relax) the symptoms start to calm down too.

Try not to get panicked about those symptoms since they could feel worse with panicking.

As I am writing this, I have a pretty bad chest pain and am having difficulty breathing.

Take care please!!

I am sorry this is such a late response ...are you still suffering from crazy anxiety and panic? I have been this way for many years and it seems no one can fix me....all that I read says that these attacks last for minutes to a few hours but mine go on most of the day...I really hate to be alone for fear of passing out or worse...I have had 2 heart attacks so it's difficult to know what's real and what's do to my crazy disorder. Part of my fear is going to Dr.s and taking meds so I won't have any part of anxiety meds besides I want a cure not a band aid. I cannot drive a car anymore for fear of having an attack while driving I don't like to socialize outside of my home my children think I'm crazy I hate being this way

Hi,

Three days ago I started an intense h pylori treatment and that' s when I started having diarrhoea, nausea and all the side effects of that treatment. I'm weak and the medications made me even weaker. So, on the third day I decided to stop the treatment because I couldn't take it anymore and that brought with it a constipation and a lack of appetite. At night I went to sleep and 15 minutes later woke up and i felt sudden dizziness and light-headedness, and that's when I had this massive panic attack and this feeling of fear made me stand up really quickly, felt tingling in my left side of the head, face, cheek and neck and thought i was having a heart attack. My arms and legs felt heavy and those on the left felt heavier. I felt a tingling in both hands a couple of times, too. I couldn't sleep all night but managed to sleep around 7 o'clock in the morning till 10. Woke up again and the tightness in my face and neck are still there, my left arm hurts a bit near the elbow, my legs are still heavy and the pain, that pressure in the top left side of my head is still there, too. And the air conditioning can't seem to cool my body. I don't know what is this. Is it constipation, a result of that panic attack or just a heart attack? I'm in fear. I'm tired. I had anxiety attacks recently but, this is new and is making me really scared. I feel so alone and I only have mum to ask for help but, i don't want to worry her because I know she'll be really worried and i can't do this to her especially when she has my ill father to worry about. I'm 37 but, I don't know if I can go to the doctor's alone this time because I'm really, absolutely scared of being alone after what happened to me last night. Can anyone help? Thank you.

Hi everyone? I hope you are all doing better than before.  I am having something that I have diagnosed to be a generalized anxiety.  Thought I do not know what triggers it as it has only been a month. After checking the physical symptoms of anxiety on a reputable website, I have found out that I only have the hear pelpitation or the weird feeling on the left side and no other symptoms.  Since yesterday, even that seems to have gone but it has been replaced with just feeling crappy.  I do worry a lot and I think to myself "why are you being so irrational".  The fear things I worry about are what if I end up needing medication? What if they don't work?  What if I end up a mental ward? 

I am a student and work at 2 jobs and they are relatively easy jobs to do so I convinced myself it isn't stress the is a trigger.  

Do I sound like I have an axiety? Are there a non mental diseases that resemble anxiety in symptoms?  Something tells me there isn't.

I have had anxiety symptoms before. did not for awhile now i have been suffering the past week- feel like a heart attack at times- felt weak, shakey, little dizzy but mostly it is the heart fluttering and beating wierd keep waiting for it to stop. cannot stand it- does anyone else have such irregular heart rate with anxiety. I know i have been under a lot of  stress and a lot of changes in my life i guess it is taking it's toll. Gonna go to Dr to make sure it is nothing else.