Does anyone else have physical anxiety symptoms 24/7

meteror63, it is 4 years later but I have been suffering constant anxiety as you describe here. Physical and mental all day long. The same thought(s) are in my mind, and they are terrifying. So terrifying I don't want to share the thoughts.  I have deep seated trauma from childhood that has been full on in my mind for the last 2 weeks. I spent a week absolutely petrified to sleep. This is still there but with a sedative in very small doses I can just about cope. This week is slightly better. Citalopram is known to make anxiety worse and give you panic attacks where your chest tightens until you slow your breathing down and get it under control. People react differently to anti-depressants. I started hearing voices after 3 days on Citalopram. I also had the panic attacks you described. I am now on Sertraline anti-depressant which is more for anxiety. I am on day 5 so it will take another 4 days to a week to get the full benefit.  I have the dry mouth as well. I need diazepam to calm my anxiety during the day but I am scared of getting addicted to it so I have stopped taking it. Waking in the morning at the moment is hell as the anxiety hits me full on. Making breakfast is such a struggle. I'm not coping well at the moment. I have been told I need trauma focused CBT. I am not working and don't have money. Hope this helps in some way. You are not alone.

Hi, I have the same problems, constant palpitations, numbness in my left arm, tingly and shaky legs. I’ve never had anxiety before but since my first attack everything seems to be getting worse. It’s all I can think about, I used to run 10km every day but I’ve just been to the gym and running made me feel like I was about to have a heart attack, horrible chest pain everything. I don’t know how to make these symptoms stop. 

Hello

Ive suffered from anxiety and panic attacks all my life in school then they stopp

Hello

Ive suffered from anxiey and panic attacks since high school it happened cause i got bullied then they went when i was in college i met loads of friends i got pregnant when i was 19 had my little boy at 20 the panic attacks and anxiety came back when i was 20 weeks pregnant i thought they would go after i had my baby cause my mum said when she was pregnant she had dizziness and after she had me it went and was the same when she was having my 2 sisters im now 21 my little boy is 14 months pld nearly i have them none stop now some days i can be fine others i wont be i put on a brave face for my baby i smile all the time even when having a panic attack but im fed up of being like this so im going doctors tomorrow ive never been on medication or anything i get panic attacks before going out aswell and i have to ask this does anyone get vision problems or panic attacks after usong there phone? I normally go on my phone at night or if im not going anywere i go on it a bit during the day not alot tho cause i cant these are my symtoms

Sweating

Dizziness

Tingling in legs

Tingling in chest

Burning sensation in chest/stomach

I always need the toilet

I get tired

I get uncomfortable

Feeling sick..

I can control the dizziness i just close my eyes or lie down for a few minutes it goes

But im hopefully gonna get it sorted tomoz

Hello everyone.

I used to not ever have anxiety and then one day it hit me. The good news is that it only lasted for 3 days and found out that the cause was pretty simple. I'm only writing this because while I was going through the random anxiety I came across this forum and felt exactly like many of you feel, so hopefully my story helps you guys out.

My anxiety occured on a Thursday morning and it went on for 3-4 days. In my desperation I called my doctor and had him receive me the following Monday and while we were trying to figure out the reasons of why I felt that way, I happened to mention that last week I bought a bottle of Vicks 44 (a popular cough syrup) for a nasty cough I had. I took it for 3 straight days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Then I stopped on Thursday which was the day I started feeling anxious and weird. I felt like I had lost my soul. I felt trapped in my body. I didn't feel normal at all. So it turns out, my doc is an expert in chemical reactions and he figured out that Vicks 44 contains dextromethorphan which somehow is based on opioids. And that's when we understood that my anxiousness was because I had stopped taking the cough syrup suddenly so I was having opioid withdrawals. I didn't feel normal until that day I saw the doctor and knowing the cause really helped me because not knowing why this was happening to me only scared me more. The good thing is that the chemicals left my system after 3-4 days.

As you can see, the reason for me feeling like that was pretty silly. I bought an over the counter cough syrup and it ended making me feel like I had lost my soul after I stopped taking it. So my message to you guys is, please, please check what meds you're taking because they might be the reason for your anxiety. Even some anti-anxiety pills have opioids in them so they can not only worsen the anxiety attacks but also keep you addicted.

Be careful and take any meds you took before your anxiety started to a doctor who knows his chemicals.

God bless you and I hope this helped someone.

Hi, I am a sufferer of Extreme Anxiety. I need some confirmation, so I don’t feel like I am dying! Does anyone else have symptoms of like tingling internally through arms and legs, a full throat feeling like something is stuck, constant neck tightness or issues, fighting to get to sleep for several hours each night and the worst of all, feeling dizzy like you need to close your eyes and chill out. When I get up from sitting I feel dizzy, when I am just sitting I feel it as well. Just on and on weird symptoms. Please tell me others out there have this. I don’t want it to be my Heart. 

Yeah. So I'm very similar. Landed in the ER in mid Jan. Landed in the ER again less than a week later. Went to see family doctor. I've been "guess" diagnosed with anxiety, acid reflux, hiatal hernia, etc. I've had a 64 slice CT scan on my heart, ultrasound and hida scan for gall bladder, cat scan of my torso, 24 hour heart monitor halter test, the works. I've had 3 ekgs. All are normal. Oh and a endscopy and colonoscopy. All came back with nothing wrong what so ever. I'm still waiting on the results of a pulmonary test and echo test on my heart. Today I've been proscribed some anti-anxiety meds that I'm going to be reluctantly taking.

So my symptoms were out of nowhere, I mean literally never anything similar before I got hit with the urge to breath fast and deep and tightness in my chest. Tingling in my lower facial are and weakness in my legs. That's what landed me in the ER twice. Lately I've had persistent chest pain and "butterflies" like feeling in my mid chest area. I've also had shooting paints that almost feel like sore pectoral muscles from a super hard weight lifting session. And it can last for an hour or so without subsiding at all. It can come and go in a matter of minutes. But it's fairly persistent, it's not like it's an every other day thing. At least 8-10 times a day. At this point it's been going on for nearly 3 months. There were times when I thought I was better because the episodes where so light and becoming in frequent but then I'd relapse and it would get intense again. One of my weirder symptoms is that I wake up feeling short of breath now but pretty much ONLY right at the start of dozing off. I can be lying down, sitting up, however, if I started to doze off I like wake up feeling short of breath just for a couple of breaths. Generally though if I ever fall asleep then I'm good, it's like that initial hump, like stage one sleep or something that I'll get the shortness of breath, then I'm good if I ever get past that.

It's been a long 3 months full of misdiagnosis and a butt ton of anti-acid meds which I'll be stopping at this point. I hope you find or have found some relief, I've been pretty miserable/stressed out about it myself and I will be closely following this thread.

I am suffering from anxiety disorder for almost one and half year. Sometimes I feel good but sometimes anxiety come back and effect my daily life.. feel shortness of breath,chest pain,nausea,dizziness,muscle tension,fatigue most in the case. But now a days I feel a bone fracture pain in my thigh area and it's horrible. I have already visited doctors for more 10 times.. last time he out me from his chamber. I know it's simply anxiety but sometimes I scares what the f**k is going on! Have anyone face same problem? Please say