Does anyone else have physical anxiety symptoms 24/7

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Hi. I just wondered if what I'm experiencing is normal. For the past 2-3 months I've had constant anxiety symptoms. I'm not just talking anxious thoughts (although I have those all the time), I'm talking physical symptoms. All day long, I have a horrible tightness in my chest, butterflies in my stomach, dry mouth, internal shaking in my legs and adrenaline rushes up and down my body. I can't control the symptoms, no matter how hard I try. When it first hit, it was different. I had constant nausea & a general feeling of not being able to cope. But I could switch out of it sometimes and feel normal. Now I can never switch out of it. It's there all the time, although the nausea has stopped. I even have it in my sleep because I've actually felt it in my dreams and when I wake up, it's still there. (Not that I can sleep much in this state. 5 hours is the most I ever have.) I'm on Citalopram but if anything, it's made my anxiety worse. The leg symptoms weren't there before I went on the drug and nor was the chest tightness.

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    I am also suffering from these symptoms since one month and can't get help with any medication. I want to know some easy self-treatment, so guys please share you ideas with me.

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    Are your fingernails affected by anxiety\ stress? I've noticed that on some of my fingers, the nailbed has redness at the very tip, and when I walk or lay in bed that redness goes away. Can someone help me figure this out? I've read somewhere that this is an early sign of heart disease. I'm 26, 170 lbs and have major health anxiety.

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    Hello there,

    I have physical symptoms all day from anxiety and panic attacks... Feels like surges of adrenaline, heart pumping loud and hard, shortness of breath. Hardly any Sleep , Or feels like I'm can't get enough oxygen in and I feel like I'm literally going to die , My hands And Feet Sweat Ridiculous amounts and I feel anxious of every and anything it's so scary I can barely leave my home if I do my anxiety gets to the point I have to return home immediately, And it just started happening about a month n a half ago and it was mild now it's literally all day every day... My doc put me on 50mgs of vistaril Hydroxyzine PAM. 1 capsule 3 times a day and it works so well I can almost function as well as I did b4 all of this hit.... I still struggle a bit in the morning hours however I try to just sleep through it when I can!! To make it all worse I'm 20 weeks pregnant and these hormones wasn't helping matter however this vistaril is a god send it has helped me beyond words I'm so happy n grateful that my doctor knew what was recognized it and treated it quickly!

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    My anxiety is so bad i feel like im dying! I cant breathe and my head feel like a band around it and get really dizziness i been dealing wit this for 15 years and im 25 i been to the er over 25 times and same results .. Im just tired of living like this having anxiety everyday for like 2 months and then it stops for 2 weeks and then start back and go for 2 months.... I just lost my job and now its at its worse.. I cant get my mind off negative thoughts
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      your not alone... im here to talk eberything will be ok i feel the pain it helps to talk to people with your pain! im here bud

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    Yes I get all these symptoms and I have suffered them for 10 yrs.

    Nothing seems to stop them or even get rid, they come and go whatever I'm doing, it's a waste of time visiting a Dr I think anyway, they don't know how to really treat them, but I suppose every one is different.

    If I don't have any symptoms I'm 110% fine and fit, but when they hit out the blue I'm absolutely grounded, they are the worst thing to ever experience, and before all this I was a out going person who like to socialize, but came to an abrupt end 10 yrs back, I have tried to got out but your feeling ill, feeling sick, shaky legs, palps, chest tightening, hard to breath sometimes, extreme lightheadedness, sweating there's no way u are going to out socializing. I have been looking for more help for yrs but no Dr seems to be interested, I have tried cognitive behaviour and numerous pills but it's all crap for me did not wrk at all.😡😡

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      tips.. keep your mind busy!!! go golf go play video games work just keep your mind from thinking it will get back to thinking like it should im here to talk!

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    I’ve been experiencing what you’re going through for about 4 years now. In my head I think I’m going crazy. I can’t remember the last time I felt at peace. Except for when I had gotten my hands on Xanax a while back. I know now a days everyone says it’s bad for you. But that’s because those people didn’t need them. While I was taking them I actually felt better. Not just physically but mentally things felt like they were going back to normal. I was able to have normal conversations with people, like I actually had time to think. & Now that I’m not taking anything it feels as though my anxiety as risen to new heights. It’s frightening because it’s all in my head and I just can’t seem to let it go.  

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    I just like you. Exactly like you, a free mind but you I feel the physical symptoms 24/7. Nausea, dizziness, for 15 years now. There is no cure

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    There is no cure, so we are talking about managing.

    The worst is that there is no reason. Things seem ok. Clearly there is a problem.

    Also it changes over time.

    Recently I am sweating over night. Around the neck and head.

    After eliminating night flash, below neck, virus, whole body. Only anxiety left.

    I was never prone to alcoholism.

    Lately that is one of my controls.

    The other is Ativan, but just occasionally.

    Simplifying life is necessary.

    I worry, even when I think I am not.

    Best not to know anything. No news, but even movies, if you are very empathic like me.

    lh

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    hey there i came here to see if anyone faces this... i have for years since i turned 16 im 19 now and ive had months i would get better then like now im "dying" but its the hardest thing to overcome but it will get better im here! if anyone facing this needs to talk your not alone you not going crazy!!! 5your brain is fine nothings happening you cant die... from anxiety just relax if you have depression your not alone im here i panick when im alone i feel like no ones going to be here for me.. everything is ok i promise

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    Hi I can relate completely. I have been diagnosed with CFS and fibro and the symptoms associated with those too are as long as your arm and that is without the anxiety they bring. I ended up in emergence seven times last yr when anxiety exacerbated symptoms. Problem is now where does the CFS end and the anxiety start and vice versa? Some days I am a mess and I cant tell if it is anxiety or not or both.

    Physical symptoms that I know anxiety makes worse is chest pain and raised heartbeat, neurological stuff on face and extremities, muscle twitching and lightheadness.

    I will say prior to becoming unwell some 18months ago anxiety played hardly no part in my life. I had no idea who much it can effect you physically. By the way I am 57yrs old.

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      I separate CFS as lack of energy. That means rest is needed. If no rest, everything gets worse.

      So I call it physical.

      Anxiety I call mental/phycological/emotional .

      In case it helps to understand what is going on at the time.

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      Sorry I am confused about your reply. I wasnt saying my CFS was a result of anxiety, rather the latter has badly affected it and continues to do so. Until the past year or so I was totally unaware how anxiety could affect some physically.

      Apologies in advance if you were, but were you trying to say something else?

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      I wrote that to this, in case it helps.

      " .....I cant tell if it is anxiety or not or both...."

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