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Does anyone else have physical anxiety symptoms 24/7

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meteor63
meteor63

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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  • Sillysally1978
    Sillysally1978 meteor63

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    i too have been dealing with this for 3 months. no one has a clue whats wrong. im on so many meds for all my issues... 4-5 that help with other things and anxiety. then why do none help this? im miserable.

    i have a mental health med prescriber. reg dr. counselor. me tal health crisis works close with me. yet no one knows whats up. it all just HIT.

    im interested in talking to others in the same situation. its hard for me to type alot as i have some tremors from other meds.

    im 42, female, from oregon usa.

  • tara06816
    tara06816 meteor63

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    I have physical symptoms of anxiety constantly. Pit in my stomach, slight tremor in arms, sometimes legs too. The pit in my stomach is the most frustrating. I am not usually worried about anything I just have physical symptoms. I can go weeks or months with the symptoms and then weeks or at the least a month with out it and then boom its back. When Im having the physical symptoms and I think of the littlest thing I dont want to do the pit in my stomach will surge bigger for a few second then go back to the normal pit. I call it a pit and its that usual feeling you get with anxiety if you can relate. Going on for 3 years.

    I am on Lamictal, Wellbutrin, Propranolol and Lorazepam as needed, Seroquel for sleep.l

    Of course if I am actually worried about something I have symptoms.

    I read some things about over active adrenaline but Im not sure why it happens.

  • dawn81303
    dawn81303 meteor63

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    hi yes i have this really bad i have weakness in hands arms like i have lost strength when i lift anythink i have been like this for six weeks now i am so ill with worry thinking i have serious things up with me i am googling all the time then get in a state because i convince my self i have things

  • gary86832
    gary86832 meteor63

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    hi there. sorry to hear about your experience. i went to see a neurologist yesterday and he put all my symptoms down to anxiety and depression, but i dont believe him. i suffer from tremors, body jerking, shoulder pain etc i dont see how this is to do with anxiety. anxiety is also a big symptom of parkinsons disease

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