I can't accept that some symptoms are caused by anxiety

I'm 100% the same mate, it's crazy how powerful the mind is.

When I thought i had angina or some kind of blockage in my heart causing my chest pain, i 'd get chest pain whenever i excercised, i'd get shortness of breath with my chest pain, i'd get chest pain walking down the street, i'd get chest pain playing football. 

I had all the tests and my heart structurally is as clean as a whistle, and guess what, the chest pain went.. never get chest pain anymore.

Thought i had bowel cancer, i had this horrible horrible pain in the right side of my stomach, wouldnt go, hurt so much, every day.. had the tests, looked in my bowels and nothing.. and guess what, the pain went. 

For some reason my mind/body needs an answer, it needs a test to say im fine to get over something. Im just about to start CBT to try break this routine, but my symptoms are 100%, just like yours are, there doesnt have to be an explanation for them, like my chest pain i searched for different answers constantly, acid reflux etc, no no, my chest pain was caused by nothing else except anxiety.

I'm sorry to hear your going through that, I can relate I have a cyst on my nut doc says it's fine but I'm freaking out, I hope your OK now

I really never thought I would suffer from anxiety and stress but ended up in A&E and having been told I was having a full blown panic attack and suffering anxiety disorder I started to feel much better. I have had two gastroscopys all clear a ultrasound scan all clear a cat scan of my abdomen pancreas kidneys etc all clear urine samples all clear stool samples for inflammation all clear blood tests for everything including all the hepatitis etc all clear.

I still have stinging pains under ribs on both sides. Burning back pain shortness of breath coughing dry mouth and throat pain in wrists and legs pain in my right testicle and so on not all at once sometimes 2 or 3 at a time and sometimes they last 10 minutes and then get different pains elsewhere for another 10 minutes or so.

I feel weak when I wake up which is several times during the night and I have to stay in bed 12 hours or more even when I can't sleep as I just can't force myself to get up. I also feel very little pain when I am lying in bed but I know pain will start shortly after I get up so maybe that's why I can't get out of bed

Anxiety can cause a million and one symptoms so I am told and I try hard to think that each time I feel the pains even though it's hard when they appear every few minutes but when I concentrate on something like doing the garden or cleaning out the garage I notice I go long spells without pains or noticing the pain. Maybe it really is the anxiety causing the pain.

On the issue of medication It's obvious to me now that you may not think your anxious or suffering anxiety but you are it's an underlying anxiety. I thought I best ask for something to control anxiety but sirtraline gave me more anxiety no sleep at all my jaw came out of its socket twice on the second day I had unbelievable diarrhea within 3 hours of taking the first pill my teeth were grinding and I felt I was getting a mild to medium strength electric shock. Horrendous!!! I would look at this tiny pill and feel so anxious about putting it in my mouth because I wondered what hell it was going to do to me today. I stopped it I couldn't take no more symtoms and after a week of taking them it took two weeks for my mind to settle down and actually I felt like my anxiety had gone after going through that hell. It hasn't gone but my head is a lot better and I sleep better although I really do have the weirdest dreams like you wouldn't imagine. My pains have changed and got worse though so I really do hope I can find different medication to rid me of anxiety without horrific side effects. the doctors say these anxiety meds settle down and don't really work for about 4 weeks but I couldn't put up with sirtra line another day longer

Hi.

I stumbled across your thread. There's many replys here but all seems to be going around in a circle.

You believe anxiety can not do this to you.? You believe there is a problem.

You need to first understand the make up of the body. The nervous system down to the communication on how the brain and body speaks to relay pain and vice versa.

18 years in HELL I have been with Anxiety. I have had every known disease on the record from mad cow to Ebola to cancers to heart failures and heart attacks.

In 1 year only I had called 192 ambulances 208 ecg's.. blood tests, xray's and 2 MRI scans.

I purchased a heart monitor and diabetic testing equipment. Total cost through my journey £11,300. On private testing not to mention NHS testing.

I am well and not dying. There's never been anything wrong other than my mind.

The mind once active in a fear state starts to interpret normal signals into danger signals.

One ache is advanced to a danger state and then the mind uses its memory of eperience to find a answer. When there is no answer fear takes over. Fear of an outcome that is not yet known.

This then causes stress and in turn you start operating daliy full on stress hormones and adrenalin. Once your functioning on this everything you feel will be a threat.

There was no pills that worked for me. No amount of talking. Even paying £80 a hour had no effect.

My body started to shut down. Legs went. Strength went. From 13 stone 10 to 9 stone 2 in 4 weeks.

Could not eat. Didn't want to.

Then realized fear. What was it that started it all of. When did I start the madness.

18 years prior I had 2 minutes of palpatations after a daily diet of coke and coffee. That was the first trip to the hospital thinking at the age of 19 I was having an heart attack. From that point, that moment I changed. I was affraid if death. If I had not been affraid afraid of death I would not have gone to the hospital on day 1.

Death is an interesting topic. It is unknown. We all fear what we do not know. We like things simple. We like to know that everything is ok and nothing bad is going to happen.

To panic is to not understand the outcome and to be affraid of the made up outcome.

While in this state of panic the brain will misinturprett signals that are normal into pain.

The moment i let go of the panic and understand the drive behind it. Everything went away.

Try to revise what's happening and what others are saying and trust there's thousands been there and many thousands still there.

Love to you.

Tom.

Jramble... I can't make your anxiety over bowel cancer go away, I am aware due to my own behaviour than anything I say will not make you believe that you are not ill until you have the tests you desire - as I say: I speak from experience and I know how you can be utterly convinced of having something.

I just wanted to offer you some reassurance.

I read your symptoms.

You do not, from the symptoms you wrote about, have bowel cancer.

Why can I say this so definitely? Because I knew someone who did.

You wouldn't be at work, for a start.

The person I knew had a small cancerous growth. They were told they were the lucky ones as it had not spread anywhere.

Even so and armed with this good news, the pain this person was in (the growth was little more than two inches at most,) was inbelievable.

They also were not constipated until the grow caused an obstruction - once this happened ...well. It was awful.

You do not have bowel cancer. Not even early stages of it...it just doesn't work that way.

Everything you listed, constipation, feeling ill in the mornings, bags under eyes and losing by weight - i can relate. This is what anxiety does.

It breaks you and makes you feel AWFUL. I have lost so much weight I feel I look ridiculous. The mornings are the worst - sometimes I feel ILL. Really horrid.

I just wanted to share with you my story - as I say, I don't expect it to change anything for you. I hope you can get the tests you need to put you at ease.

I'm getting very similar symptoms. I had a flare up of chest pains which seem to have worn off, although fast resting heart rate and palpitations still persist. I have also just started to feel a very light but dull ache in my testicular area, low appetite, at times very lethargic. What was the outcome of your symptoms after tests?