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My name is Sean and i'm a 34 year old male in fairly good shape (215 pounds). I run 2 miles per day. Last year was pretty stressful for me searching for a job, bills, new job, etc. I felt alot of stress and some anxiety but I always seemed to manage my emotions without loosing control, and I can shamefully admit that I medicated with alcohol most nights to take the edge off.
Well in October of 2014 I lost my grandfather who helped raise me so he was basically like my father. I took it kind of hard and wept for a day or so but THOUGHT I was over it because he doesn't have to suffer anymore. Well on December 17th I woke up with a slight hangover so I decided to take a BC powder for my headache. I began feeling anxious which I attributed to the over consumption of alcohol so I took some bach rescue remedy and some Lithium Oratate which I heard is good for anxiety.
Well 15 minutes later I became very warm (hot flash) followed by a fast heart palpitation which landed me in the emergency room. I told the doctor the only medicine i'd been taking is Prevacid and amoxicillin from the dentist. I have continued to get palpitations, and hot flashes with new occuring symptoms ever since. I've been tested for everything under the sun from a MRI, MRA, Gall Bladder scans, Stool Test, Chest X-rays, heart echo, eye test, bone scans, blood word, etc. The only thing they have found is that my thyroid is in NORMAL range but on the hyperthyroid end 0.56 (0.34 being abnormal), my testosterone is in the NORMAL range but is on the low side 347 when it should be in the 600's. I was also low in Vitamin D 23 (with 30 being low) which I have been supplimenting for.
My symptoms have expanded over the last few months and now i'm experiencing the following, at different times:
Hot Flashes / excessive sweating
Heart palpitations
Extreme Anxiety
Eye Floaters
Weird vision/ unreality/ wierd head/brain numbness or pressure
Cold or tingling hand and feet
Muscle twitches in random areas
High frequency ringing in ears (only occured a few times)
Neck and upper back stiffness/ popping (No Pain)
Googling my symptoms has made everything WORST and pushed me to what now feels like a nervous breakdown.
Although I have tested negative for lyme disease, (Elisa/ and western blot), a guy from another website still insist that I have lyme disease.
I would love to hear from some of the more experienced anxiety sufferers to see if this is indeed health anxiety or something else.
Thanks, Sean
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pf7 sean63809
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rachel60225 pf7
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This was posted 2 years ago but I wanted to talk anyway. I am experiencing many of these same symptoms with no answers
thus far. All the research I have done points to MS, fibromyalgia or the ever common panic or anxiety disorders. I don't believe this is panic or anxiety. I only started getting panic attacks after these symptoms developed. And my fear and trepidation over my health caused the panic and anxiety, not vice versa. I have
been experiencing these symptoms for almost 2 years now. If
you ever managed to get any answers or a firm diagnosis,
please, please, please let me know. Thank you. I'm getting
desperate.
ella14984 sean63809
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- shallow breathing (feeling like i cant breathe and gasping for air) every day
- heart palpations
-heart beating extremely fast all the time
-chest pain and a tight feeling
-armpit pains
-shaking/trembly feelings
-sweating in cold and hot
-feeling dilusioned in my head and feeling weird like im here but im not
-trouble with staying asleep
- panic attacks
I hope this helps and i hope you feel better soon, hopefully you get down to what you think it is to keep your mind at rest.
sean63809 ella14984
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patsfan5777 I hope we both find out a solution to our problems because things are getting unbearable. I do suspect that this is anxiety but i've ALWAYS been able to shake it with anxiety tricks i've acummilated over the years (welcoming the anxiety, etc), but this feels like another level that I wasn't prepared for.
I'm sure that Google is to blame for alot of it. When I started using google for symptoms they were only chest pain, heart palpitations, and hot flashes. Now as you can see from my list I have accumilated quite a few more since then, which are probably all due to panic (fearing the worst). I believe the first 3 are due to a hormonal imbalance of some sort that my natural doctor is trying to get to the bottom of.
ella14984 sean63809
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all the best!
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windy91233 ella14984
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Hi Ella, I experienced it very young too. I'm 38 now, but I had hypochondria when I was in Jr, High. I was convinced I had a brain tumor and couldn't sleep because I would worry at night. I didn't tell my parents for a while, I was very lonely and scared. I still have GAD and hypochondria. I would actually feel pain from it as well. I have taken meds for over 20 years.
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Pablobrown sean63809
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1) Twitches (everywhere, but mainly my thumbs,fingers,biceps and thighs)
2) vertigo
3) hallucinations (red traces)
4) insomnia
5) numbness (face)
6) Cramping (legs)
7) loss of appetite
8) Brain fog (I would mumble my words)
This was all down to googling my symptoms.Ella is right,you sound like you've got GAD.
sean63809 Pablobrown
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Now I see that there are different LEVELS of anxiety, some which affect the self conscious body. Not only do you need to concuer it mentally, your body (In itself) also has to be retrained not to be anxious.
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sean63809 Pablobrown
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I would actually rather this whole experience be something benign as anxiety or maybe even a minor hormone imbalance and not anything else. I think the worst thing i've done was post a thread on a well know lyme disease forum trying to eliminate that possiblity (marking down my check list), and posting on their was the biggest mistake that I've made.
Everyone has names like Lymeanator or Ms. Lymie lol, and they are all talking about how Lyme complex is a LIFE time fight and their is NO CURE and that I DEFINATELY have it based on symptoms. I was told the two negative lyme test that I took were no good and that I still probably had it.
They said things like you probably have Lyme bacteria in your eyes which is why you see the floaters, and the lyme disease has penetrated into your nervous system creating all the different symptoms you're experiencing including the anxiety. It affected me so much that I talked my doctor into prescribing me a month of doxycycline antibiotics and I actually just finished my second week of that (with no symptom improvements), but I do have 2 weeks of it left.
I am going to stop surfing the web, and keep a positive mind frame from here on out.
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