Do your anxiety symptoms last for days/weeks?

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My physical symptoms of anxiety seem to never go away 😟 does anyone else have the same thing and is this normal? I'm sick of it and because it's always here I think there definately is something wrong with me! It's horrible living like this.

Also, when you start to obsess with one symptom (me chest pain mainly breast) I feel like it's actually something serious and its like I'm seeing more symptoms of it being serious. It's hard to describe but if you obsess that much always lookin etc if it possibly for you to make up new physical symptoms in your head?? I'm making myself go mad. Want my pain to

Go away and it won't which makes me more anxious.

Thanks for reading, Nicola xx

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    Hey Nicole I'm 29 male, i have the same exact symptoms everybody on here says , at first I was freaking out thinking I was going to die, now I've kinda accepted it. At times I would cry thinking i had major problems and was on my deathbed . I thought how crazy it was that it would come and go like it does , when I keep myself busy it goes away, as soon as I think about it , it comes right back , it goes away for months and comes back for a week or two. You are not alone ,I feel better knowing there is a lot of people going through the same thing we are. Good luck with everything and hopefully we can all get rid of this

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    Hey I know exactly what you are going through right in the beginning of July I almost passed out in the post office. A week after through out that week I had an off balance feeling so I had gone to the ER 3 times and they found nothing to be wrong with me. They did an MRI twice, X-rays, an Echocardiogram and about 5 blood test, all of which showed up normal. Since then I've been home, I have not worked since that week of feeling faint, to be specific right towards the beginning I was afraid to go outside and felt disgustingly sick and at some moments I would get these crazy palpitations and feel as if the air was getting thick and could not breath, not to mention my vision seemed to be off from normal and I read up on something called derealization that is an effect of anxiety. Now about 3 weeks ago the doctors told me my liver and all of my organs are working fine so they believe this to be anxiety, and basically told me I can't stay in the house or it will just get worse and control me. So I forced myself out of the house and I have felt some what better and I don't really struggle with the palpitations as much or feeling off balance as I did but now I'm trying to get my vision back to what it was and also get my ear, nose and throat checked out by a specialist because like you I believe my situation is deeper then just anxiety and when someone is feeling off balance that always deals with the ear. If you feeling like there is something wrong get as many test as possible don't feel embarrassed or as if you are wasting people's time, that is their job to reassure us that we are okay and it's our jobs to be concerned and cautious with this one life we have!

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    Everything everyone is posting is me. I feel like I'm going crazy, and no one can tell me that I am not going to die. I want to stay home. I don't want to drive. I refuse to take any medicine because I have before and it made me feel worse. So I said I'd rather be crazy, I stay in all of the emergency rooms in the city I live in. I keep it to myself I only talk to my mother thank god for her. I was taking medicine for high blood pressure come to find out it makes me have panic really bad. As a matter of fact almost any medicine I take does not agree with me. I stay up all nigh because I'm afraid I won't wake up. I hate we all have to experience this but I'm glad I found that I'm not the only one. You know that's it's just all in my head. I pray that we all find some comfort and get over this or I'll end up in a straightjacket 😩😢😱😨😰

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    I have had such bad anxiety and panic attacks it's been so bad it's made me so sick

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      Hello. I just want you and everyone suffering here, to know that you can fight this. Try your best to not let this control you. I'm trying my best to fight it, too. Ask for help. Don't suffer in silence. There's nothing to be ashamed of. There's always someone out there who wants to help. Gain back your strength to push all those fears away. Go do a full check up at hospital. I've always thought that check ups can actually relieve a lot of that stress and anxiety. Knowing that everything's fine with you will help in fighting that anxiety. Breathe. Don't let it control you. Engage yourself in something you love. Try to ignore bad thoughts as much as you can. Just breathe. Love yourself even after those attacks. Calm down and just Pray hard that all those fears go away. I may sound as if I'm ordering you here to do all of this. I'm in fact was saying all of that to you besides myself and everyone else. Stay strong. Be happy.

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    Hi there, I know exactly what you are going through. I am an 18 year old who recently started college, and my long term (2 years) girlfriend moved across the country to Arizona. Starting about 6 weeks ago, I started suffering from horrible panic attacks. I am now struggling to live alone, and constantly worrying that I have a serious medical condition. It's absolutely debilitating. Hang in there, everybody

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    Can anyone help me too. 3 weeks ago I went to the hospital with a headache. They did a ct scan on me it came out normal. Then they did a lumbar puncture on me that took the dr well over a half hour of jabbing me in the back anyways it had blood in it, so she thought I was having a brain anurisom, took me by ambulance to another hospital. They did a ct scan on my with contrast and came out normal, they sent me home after a bunch of other test and said I was having cluster migraines. I went back a few says later and they did another spinal tap on me came out completely normal again. Said im having migraines. Went to my drs a few days later she said I had a sinus infection. Put me on a bunch of medications. I went to a ent, they said I didnt have a sinus infwction but could have because I was on meds a week before I even went there. Anyways I had a follow up with my dr and she thinks I have anxiety from everything I went through. Now I am anxious all the time. Scared there is something wrong with me when they have done every test possible. Every little pain I have I want to run to the hospital. Headaches have gotten better but still been having them daily
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    Mine started two weeks ago I am so scared to leave the house now and don't do anything I used to dosad(

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      I know it's difficult, believe me, but you can't stay locked in your house. It will only make things worse. One of the only effective ways to cope with anxiety and panic attacks is to face it, not fight it. It's like swimming. If you gently tread water you can float for hours. If you violently flail your arms and legs, you'll surely drown. If you stay strong and face your fears, you'll eventually see that they aren't so scary after all. Good luck to you.

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      Your right what u said I have not wanted to go out or do anything because my panic attacks and anxiety it's debilitating and I'm so stressed over this I keep thinking something is going to happen to me

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      I'll give it my best I'm just keep thinking I'm going to die it sounds stupid but my heart raced like never before yesterday. I had to sit down and breathe for about half n hour

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      It's not stupid at all, it's very real. When I get panic attacks I feel like my heart is beating so fast that it's literally going to explode. But anxiety is like quicksand, the more you fight it, the quicker it will suck you under. Surround yourself with the things you love. You have to think so positivly, that rainbows start shooting out of your butt lol. Anxiety isn't who you are, don't let it define you. Keep your chin up and face the day a moment at a time. You got this smile

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      U word things great thanks a lot fella al try my best to get through this
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      Thanks! You can always reply here if you need someone to talk to. Sometimes just having someone who can relate to how you feel goes a long way.
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      Exactly whenever I have one I just need my mother to tell me I'll be fine and that always helps rather than no one around to help

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