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Hello to all,
?I am new to this forum. Its the first forum i have ever joined. So i am nervous not really knowing what i expect.
?I believe i am struggling with anxiety, and in particular "health anxiety". When i look back over my life, i guess i could see this developing. Now it is out of control. I am trying to determine weather or not this is a real physical sickness or simply my anxiety out of control.
several months ago back in 2017 of October, while i was out of town, i became very anxious and felt feelings of uneasiness, like something was about to happen to me. I called my wife and she talked me through it until i could catch my flight home. When i got home, i felt drained of emotion. I could not feel love, anger, hate. I was simply numb. As time progressed things got somewhat better and i felt some "normalcy" returning.
?During that time, i constantly worried about my blood pressure which did at times spike and return to normal. I was obsessed with checking my heart rate which some times seem to drop to low fifties. My doctor said that was normal for me. Everyday i would check my blood pressure perhaps 20 times in a day just to see how it was reading. Most times it was normal.
?Eventually, my doctor convinced me to get on Buspar after i had a bad anxiety attack in Jacksonville florida. Once again it was a constant daily feeling of uneasiness and worry that something was gravely wrong. Around 8 days later, it seemed the buspar was working and i was getting some "normalcy" back. I began counseling which seemed helpful if nothing else it was good to talk to somebody.
?During that time i felt better, but had some neck tightness that seem to go down into my arms. My arms felt kind of weak and so did my legs. Eventually (a few days ago), i started getting twitching in different parts of my body (arms some times calf, sometimes thigh). They are not constant but periodic. Sometimes my legs just feel like jelly or overly fatigued. This led to be getting an EMG that read normal but have carpal tunnel. Didn't receive an explanation concerning the legs. Mind you, i began really worrying about this once i heard of the scientist that died of ALS. This past Sunday, i even was feeling like my throat was tight and difficult to swallow.
?I guess my question is has anyone else dealt with this kind of anxiety, and how do you manage it? Does it sound like i have a health issue?
?Jacob
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rieez Jacob_66932
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Hi Jacob. It looks like you have anxiety. I also have health anxiety. Mine sometimes worry about my brain, my liver, my heart, my kidney rtc. Everytime there are any tiny ache in some part of my body i thought the worst. Right now i'm dealing with hands tremors and racing heart beat. It's been there on and off for 2 months now. Been to Dr they didn't say anything just told me to exercise and eat more (I'm underweight). Currently i'm managed it without medication. I'm trying to eat healthy and add some multivitamins. When my anxiety is bad i turn to this forum. Somehow knowing i'm not alone battling with anxiety makes me calm a little bit
srk904471 rieez
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hilary07926 rieez
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Am getting better.
rieez hilary07926
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I'm glad you're getting better. Sometimes my obscure is that i want to get rid this anxiety but i don't hv enough power to change my lifestyle. The anxiety makes me worry on anything that i really wants to do. Like everytime i want to sit in front of computer to do something, the 'what if ' questions always pop up in my head! Or if i want to go exercise, the what if my anxiety getting worst, what if i get sick, etc. 😑😑
alyssa05596 Jacob_66932
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Sounds to me like you just have some pretty intense anxiety. Anxiety is such a difficult illness to live with because the symptoms we all feel are so real but they don’t show up on tests, so it can make us feel like we’re going crazy. As far as your legs feeling like jelly and your nerves about that, in my opinion I really think that’s just a part of your anxiety. Being anxious almost always causes us to tense up our bodies, even if we don’t realize it at the time. So you being in a constant state of anxiousness has your body very tight and tense a lot of the time. I can almost guarantee that’s why your legs feel so weak and strange, because once you finally relax for a minute your legs are just exhausted.
I think it would be really important for you to try and figure out what your triggers are, the things that set your anxiety off. Once you’re able to pinpoint some of those triggers, you’ll be more confident that they are only anxiety attacks, not some other health condition.
nicole_37071 Jacob_66932
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john53416 Jacob_66932
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Hi it sounds like you have a anxiety issue and prob nothing else going by my own anxiety issue does it feel like you get over one hurdle only to find there's another one try to concentrate on the good in your life your wife who seems understanding your family I wish you good luck
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