Help! Want opinions!

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Hi guys! So, a little over two weeks ago, I got online and freaked out at what I saw after I had been feeling some slight tingling in my feet. I have gotten a lot better in the last days with my anxiety... My symptoms of "ailments" have seemed to have diminished quite significantly, and I am now able to eat more normally. However, I still get super worried because I now have more recently started receiving headaches, normally at the top of my head, the side, or right between my eyes. Sometimes it feels like it comes from my ears as well. Every single time I get one, I start freaking out!!! I will be living my day pretty well (much better than the past couple weeks), I will think more rationally, but then one hits and I will automatically assume I have c****r or MS or something like that! It makes me really worried! Also, I have started waking up every single night after about one hour of sleep, I wake up normally around 11:30 pm, and it scares me! I started taking Tylenol PM a couple of nights ago as a gentle sleep aid, and I still wake up at 11:30, and I want to freak out, but I find myself not really able to, because I think the medicine is making me drowsy? Then it doesn't not help when my dad just goes "are you losing weight?" Rationally, it can be attributed to the fact that for two weeks I did not eat very well, but then I start getting those "what if" questions in my mind. Do you guys think this is just all worry and anxiety related? How do y'all deal with this?

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    Oh! I also want to say that I feel that I have been getting slight "floaters" in my vision.. But only when I am outdoors? I seem to purposely stare only at the ground when I walk because in my mind I am scared at what I will see when I look up.
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    Make your doc appointment....might need a bit of help just to calm you for now....AM sure all anxiety related....but better safe than sorry....then....loads of alternative therapies about....I got a book..mindfulness, finding peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman....give it a go.....try to take back control...it's hard but you can do it....best of luck...we are all here to help...
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    I lost a lot of weight due to anxiety (horrible nervous feeling in my stomach put me right off food),and normally I would be chuffed if someone made a comment about my weightloss,but my appearance was well down the list of priorities. I also suffered for months with insomnia. My doc refused to prescribe me sleeping tablets,so I started taking Nytol one-a-night. I needed three of these tablets just to get 3 hours sleep. Sleep deprivation can cause you no-end of problems. My memeory and coordination went to pot,and I started slurring my words,it was terrifying. Once I got contol of my anxiety,my stomach cramps eased,which meant I slept longer, and the knock on effect from having more sleep was my other symptoms improved. The twicthes,leg cramps,numbness,pins and needles and so forth all eventually ceased.

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