EXTREME ANXIETY!! need help urgently
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hi people please take time to read this. I am an axiety sufferer and i mean a major major one. To the point where it now controls my whole life. I am a 24 year old male ive had countless bloodtests all normal been to the er countless times yet all tests come back normal. I have had every single anxiety symptom known to man and still am having now even now as i type this im not myself. Currently been perscribed 30mg mitazipine. I have gerd which i take medicane for and severe keriticonus in my eyes. As most anxiety sufferers i feel often detatched from reality and like im doomed for death. my anxiety is health related i have gone from having lung cancer to testicular cancer to throat to esophugus to ms you name it. Now i have a new symptom which is terrifying me and ruling my life. I have this constant head pressure. completely painless and more in my left temple. although someone is pushing my left temple outwards also feel it in forehead and top of nose which does come and go. I get random bouts of dizziness that last for a split second with a head rush type feeling which then sends me into a panic spiral which then makes them worse i cant win. I have been to 4 different doctors about this who reassure me its my anxiety but that could also be a post nasal drip as i have a deviated septum ive been given a nasonex steroid spray. Please does anyone else experience this head pressure in the temple area. The more i think the worse it gets but this is going to end up killing me please help. The docs are that certain its my anxiety they all saod no to a ct or mri. blood is fine and all other tests fine
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will15484 lewis43146
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Hi Lewis I feel like the way you explained everything is exactly me. 24 year old male as well. Don't worry about anything man you're young and healthy. My doctor says I'll live to be 100 but my anxiety is messing with me bad. The detatched feeling is what gets me the most. I'm doing better but still not 100%
lewis43146 will15484
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will15484 lewis43146
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joe_04369 lewis43146
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I have been where you are at. What are you taking for the Anxiety? Mitazipine
won't really help with the Anxiety.
lewis43146 joe_04369
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Yea mirtazipine won't was in sertraline
lewis43146
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Sorry yes mirtazipine 30mg and was on sertraline but didn't feel good on it
joe_04369 lewis43146
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tess33005 lewis43146
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Mirtazapine IS for anxiety, by the way.
It is specifically for depression and anxiety.
That's if you're on it, of course.......
will15484 tess33005
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tess33005 will15484
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I'm a nurse, Will
I used to experience terrible anxiety. I spent two and a halr years in e mental hospital, locked up, so I feel for all people going through this.
I have been better for 17 years.
I have worked in psychiatric nursing, general nursing and midwifery.
Mirtazapine is most certainly licensed for Anxiety. It saved my life, truly.
love Tess xxxx
tess33005 joe_04369
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love Tess
tess33005
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For everyone on this thread:
I suffered anxiety until 17 years ago, so I do understand where you're coming from.
Please see your doctors and psychiatrists and try the meds they prescribe. If they don't work, there are plenty of other meds the docs can try.
Don't lose hope - I recovered, got all my children back, and started a new life.
I hope with all my heart that all of you do, too.
Love Tess xxxxx
joe_04369 tess33005
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I stand corrected and I'm glad it worked for your Anxiety which as you know is a Beast to control.
I pray one day they can just give you one shot and all this Depression-Anxiety would just go away!!
Joe
tess33005 joe_04369
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OH!
I wish that, too, Joe. My youngest child was still breasfeeding when they took me to the mental hospital.
I was given every combo of drugs and nothing helped. And in the meantime, my awful ex-husband refused to bring the four children to see me - for two and a half years!
Any parent reading this will understand my desperate depression and grief. I couldn't get out of bed, I rarely washed, and I attempte suicide twice.
And then a newish doctor gave me counselling and mirtazapine.
Wow.
Within six weeks I was better, discharged, met a new man who I eventually married, and got all my children back.
Ex-husband tried to get them back off me - we hired a lawyer who told us that ex-husband was lying - like I needed to be told that!
The Judge asked all the children who they wanted to live with.
MUM! they all shouted.
Their daddy was given visitation - I didn't oppose that, because he is good to them - no violence or cruelty............until the youngest one, now aged four, said, "Do I HAVE to go to dad's?"
I told him he did. I told him that mum and dad loved him and he should see his dad when he got the chance. So he did - and enjoyed it when he got there........
Thank you, Dr. X, for the counselling and the mirtazapine. I was on it for a year, then gradually tapered down with my doctor's advice.
Hope everyone on this forum finds solace in this story.
Also hope you'll get the correct meds FOR YOU and that you have counselling and therapy.
I've been back at work now for fifteen years. I became a Specialist Dementia Nurse and now take private patients, in their own homes. I'm proud to say that every single one of them died at home - which was their wish and the wish of their families.
Hugs to everybody,
Love Tess xxxx
joe_04369 tess33005
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WOW that's a pretty amazing journey you went through, I had mine 8 years ago as you know and for the most part have controlled my depression and anxiety, it kicks in sometimes but we have the tools to deal with it!
God Bless you! Joe