Health Anxiety
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Hey guys, new on here and i just wanted to say its great to know i'm not the only one going through all this!
I was diagnosed with anxiety a few weeks ago and prescribed citalopram, and despite taking for about i week, i stopped taking them because i felt like i needed to be strong enough to cope with this myself. Since then i feel my symptoms have gotten worse, I get chest pain and tightness, swollen feeling in the throat, pain in shoulders, arms and legs. I'm always tired, i'm developing Irritable bowel syndrome, i get groin pains.. basically everything under the bloody sun. The hardest bit is accepting its not a heart disease or anything cardiac related, since the symptoms are so similar. Its ruining my life at the moment, i have no energy to do anything, i live in fear 24/7 like i'm going to die. i get mardy and can snap at people.. now i know we're all going through this i feel a little better. i guess because i'm 19 and i've never really been ill or anything, my mind is blowing symptoms out of the water, so to all my fellow health anxiety sufferers on this forum, i hear you guys. the feeling of thinking you're going to die.. Its probably just as bad as knowing you are.. so, yeah. Hopefully this will all end soon and its just some stage i'm going through.
thanks guys!
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one way i eased myself of the immediate 'OMFG I NEED AN AMBULANCE" feeling was to see exactly WHY the symptomns were being caused by anxiety. For example i found that the short sharp pains are caused by gas bubbles trapped in places they shouldn't be and that the body literally produces gas when stressed out or anxious as a side effect from increased reactions, and i don't know if you get these but i get this 24/7 pain of tightness in the chest, which i once read as a sign of an angina, so that completely freaked me out, but then i read its the muscles around the chest wall being pulled because of subconscious contractions. Knowing this helped me big time because although i still feel scared all the time, and feeling like there is something wrong with me, my brain is beggining to understand the scientific reasons as to why there is pain. Because i know how unbelievable it is that a state of mind can cause physical pain!
hope this might help you too! i think we can all see that we have anxiety rather than heart disease deep down or we wouldn't be on this thread to begin with, but thankyou for the welcome and i'm always available to message aswell laura! x
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also i have just moved out of my parents house to live on my own and my work hours have tripled so maybe the stress from that has caused it.
finally before my anxiety was diagnosed and i have any chest related pains, i had a horrible swollen throat. usually i'm a rash and calm person but for some reason my mind instantly thought i had throat cancer. i worried about it so bad until my doctor told me it was just the cold weather and there's nothing wrong. after that was when i got the chest pains and all other symptoms because i was anxious and stressed about my throat.
but yeah could be any of those reasons really.
what about you, do you think you had a trigger?
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yeah i know how it is man, completely life ruining, i wish i could just take my mind off it but i can't
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