Shakey, wobbly, trembly? Just want to feel like ME again.

hi anxiety girl. 

I'm in the same boat yes my anxieties have been really high lately too.Yes stress is a major factor. I do the same I worry constantly about my health and lately at doctors my heart rate goes up. To much worry can make us anxious too. We need to tell ourselves that everything is going to be okay. All we are going through is anxieties. Yes it is scary but we are not dying from them and no we do not have terminal deases. We have to think positive and just let everything pass. 

I have been in a mental hospital and something they taught me in the groups is that we got to let go of these anxieties. Yes they are going to be there but I think we are taking these anxities with to much worry. 

What I mean about let go of the anxiety just let the anxiety be there. We are all human and yes everyone has anxity in their own way. We just have to learn to work with them and let it be. If your anxious then just let it go because it will pass when you get your mind onto something else. 

Try relaxation, try yoga, try singing a song don't let the anxiety control you because thats what I have been doing lately, We can control how we feel we can control our emotions we just have to work on it. Take time for yourself and relieve those stessers that you have by relaxation and yoga and just being to yourself we can beat this we can we are strong we are strong and we can beat this We do not need HRT drugs to bring on a period or stop these anxities we just got to learn how to cope one we are feeling anxious and depressed and stressed 

Hello Anxiety girl, I'm sorry to hear you are going through this. It's almost certainly hormone related.

I am still suffering with depression and anxiety and I'm in perimenopause (49). My GP agrees that the hormones may well have triggered this but says the only way to treat it is with antidepressants regardless of the cause. I'm not sure if I agree with this entirely and I'm still pressing on with St John's Wort before considering starting the SSSRi she has prescribed.

Sometimes it feels as though the shakiness inside has nothing to do with anxiety - it just seems to happen and my stomach turns over. But I think the hormone fluctuations trigger a fight of flight response so we feel that adrenalin rush and experience it as anxiety which of course makes the anxiety worse.

You are not alone with your health anxieties, I've had it bad during the last year. I'm at a point now where I'm battling health anxiety over the depression and anxiety - thinking all the depressed/spacey/edgy feeling are symptoms of an even more sinister brain disease (like depression/anxiety isn't bad enough!).

It's really hard because I just don't FEEL like the woman I was even six months ago and I just want to feel like my old self again. I just keep telling myself over and over that it's hormones, nothing else would explain such diverse symptoms. It's one day at a time. I know how hard it can be, but try to accept all the strange feelings - don't wrestle with them but just acknowledge them and know they will pass in time. This is a temporary phase. We will not feel like this forever.

Love and hugs x

Thank you for that - it's such a relief to know I'm not the only one, even though I wouidnt wish this on my own worst enemy!

I think will go back to the GP and ask for blood tests although I think they'll fob me off, even the two who I really like and trust and who know I'm bonkers!

I'm totally with you on the brain disease thing - I fell last week and jarred my neck (only just stopped seeing an osteopath in October due to neck related headaches) so the headaches are back and I'm constantlu fighting with myself saying that's all it is, not something sinister. Cat lease the trembles have gone today anyway!

Do you take anything else other than St John's? I've never tried that but I did find Agnus castus relieved the really bad boob pain I suffered with last year (even a trip to the boob clinic where I burst into tears when the consultant said straight away it's not cancer!). I don't have that so much anymore so I stopped the Agnes.

I feel exactly like you said - I just want to feel like me. The days where I do it takes me a minute to work out what's wrong - then I realise there's nothing wrong and that's what feels different!

In the last 2 years I've had on and off and at varying degrees - headaches, boob pain, gastritis, lightheadedness, anxiety, trembles, jitters, aches and pains just about everywhere, nausea, stomach upsets, tinnitis, palpitations etc etc etc.

Thanks again for your reply and good luck with it all x

Same here with the anxietis, stomach problems palpitations they went away finally. Was always worried that something was realy wrong but doctors tell me everything is fine. Sometimes its hard to believe people

Your symptoms sound so much like mine. It's so disconcerting isn't it? I've had regular periods all my life and none of these symptoms. It just all hit me last year, one thing after another. I could have coped much better if my mind hadn't also been affected with the anxiety and depression. The trouble is that many of the symptoms - dizziness, trembling etc - are so anxiety inducing. Hold on anxiety girl! We will get through this!

 

PS. I'm not taking anything else apart from some extra Bvits and the occasional valium if the anxiety gets too bad. I take Nytol occasionally too as I have trouble getting to sleep/waking early.

Hi Ruthie

You are lucky your periods are regular, i have not had a period since 2013 and yes i have had a lot of anxieties, bathroom problems both urinating and the bowls, and just not feeling myself, crying more, mood swings more i never know one day from the next if i'm going to lashing it out with my boyfriend. I never know if my anxieties are going to throw me into a panic attack its scary. Then feeling weak and crying more to where my nose is all stuffed up i feel like i just want to hide from the world when i am like this. do you ladies feel this way too

Hi Margaret, thanks for reply. Yes I've been to the GP and a gastro consultant and had every blood test and endoscopy possible in recent months (had lots of digestion issues) but all has come back clear.

I know I'm in peri because I've been having odd periods for the last year (this in itself triggered health anxiety last Spring as I was convinced I had womb cancer for a while but have had an ultrasound and CT of all my 'bits' since then and nothing could be found).

The GP did an FSH test last July which was normal but I hear this is often normal right up until post menopause so isn't an accurate indicator of whether or not you are in peri. Best to go on symptoms I think.

It sounds like you are having peri smptoms. I had terrible prolonged nausea for weeks last year and bladder problems too. I hope you will start feeling better soon xx

 

Thank you Ruthie, I think I am in peri too and if bloods ok I will say that to the Doc.  I am wondering if oestrogen cream may help...anyone? I am worried about HRT as it just prolongs the agony until the future but this is just so hard to bear!!  I also have joint probs which I really struggle with as I love exercise!!  Oh well will wait and see hwat all the tests come up with.  It does make me feel better chatting with folks so thanks.XXX

Hi, yep the bladder thing just seems to come and go....bit of it now but I am trying not to get too worried!! NO sickness or anything for a week now!!!  I also thought I had ovarian cancer.  I was scared witless last year until I had an ultra sound. I am having another one this Thurs.  It really is a trying time. Lve to you all.X