STUCK IN A HEALTH ANXIETY LOOP...HELP!!
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I'm at my wits end...I have been having a rough couple of weeks...running to the Emergency Room all the time!!! I have no medical team, no insurance, so I cannot follow up with my primary care doctor or go see a specialist that they have referred me to. ALL of my tests from the ER have been normal but I am still having HORRIBLE physical symptoms and cannot break the thoughts that I am dying and they are missing it...any helpful hints or tips that worked for you that might work for me??? Please and thanks in advance!!!
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jan34534 racheld1975
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what physical symptoms are you having?
And what specialist do they want to refer you to?
Keep in mind that severe stress and anxiety can produce hundreds of symptoms.
Also, even if you don’t have insurance, you can get free or low-cost counseling in many communities.
Also keep in mind that the more anxious you become about the symptoms, the worst they will get. The first step is to really relax your mind.
Sounds like fear and panic have taken over and those can cause many symptoms that resemble something serious but actually are not.
All your tests were normal and if something was seriously wrong, it would have shown up!
Take a step back.
Learn the proper breathing technique for anxiety and panic because it get you in control of your anxiety.
Search for it on YouTube called “mindfulness breathing guided meditation 10 minutes”.
Another one that is excellent and short is called “mindfulness meditation guided to 10 minutes”
I highly recommend that you take a few minutes out of your day, go somewhere quiet and get comfortable and then listen.
You need to take control back! Anxiety has led to fear which leads to negative thinking. Fear and negative thinking are not based on fact or reality.
relax.
Take one day at a time.
Practice the slow deep breathing and mindfulness meditation.
I can tell you that I had eight or nine symptom happen all at once when I was in my 20s and I was terrified. All my tests were normal. However nothing was wrong. I could not believe it but it was true. Every single symptoms was brought on by long-term stress and anxiety.
You see, the body can only take so much stress before it has a “breakdown“. Meaning the stress shows itself through symptoms. My body was trying to tell me there was too much stress. “The straw that broke the camels back”. Luckily our bodies are forgiving and we can regain control. Hope you feel better soon!
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sybs jan34534
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i cant cope with leaving the house and going out to venues.I do go out locally.I am supposed to be going to a venue this evening,feel awful stomach churning etc. Thanks for reading
racheld1975 jan34534
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Thank you for your reply Jan...I know as a rational person that it is most likely all to do with my anxiety BUT I am stuck...stuck in the physical symptoms and sensations...I am doing just slightly better today but I have been spiraling out of control for a while now. I will definitely check out your suggestions on YouTube, I have tried meditation before and it never really worked for me but I am not opposed to trying something new. Heck I would like a frogs arse if someone guaranteed me I wouldn't feel like this ever again LOL!!!
mero88355 jan34534
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Ash85 racheld1975
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Ash85
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racheld1975 Ash85
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I have chest pain, pressure and tightness. I also have upper back pain, epigastric/upper stomach pain and bloating. I have IBS symptoms, heartburn/GERD, widespread pain all over my body like hips, knees, back, etc. I get numbness and tingling in my hands, feet, and face from time to time. I experience what I can only describe as a vibration sensation, my whole body feels like I'm wired up on like 50 energy drinks but I haven't had any caffeine. I get hot and cold and back and forth for nothing to do with temperature, I'll even get chills where my teeth are chattering and I'm not running a fever and it isn't cold temperature wise. I've been getting a lot of pain and weird sensations in the sides of my neck, I say my jugular veins because it feels like that not the muscle or anything and it doesn't hurt when I move just feels like crampy and like blood is clotting and getting stuck and then popping loose if that makes sense. I have had a few episodes of blurred vision in one eye upon waking up, feeling like my face was heavy and like my tongue was swelling and I couldn't swallow as well. I know I am probably missing a lot too. I've been having these symptoms since around 1995 best I can remember and have seen multiple doctors, specialists, and been to the Emergency Room more times than I want to admit. I have a few "real" health issues but nothing ever with my heart or a stroke or anything like that. I have been diagnosed with GERD/acid reflux but only because of my symptoms, been scoped up and down 3 times and they never found anything. I had my gallbladder removed in the early 2000s because of gallstones. I was diagnosed with pernicious anemia but the last thing my doctor said before i lost my insurance was she wasn't sure about that diagnoses and wanted to send me for further testing. I have had a few thyroid tests come back abnormal, underactive, but have never been to a specialist so the regular doc would just send me for a repeat tsh and when it came back normal the next time was like see its normal, you are fine. I am obese, I have been most of my life, definitely overweight my whole life, and have tried everything to lose weight and nothing works. I don't eat like people think I would mainly because I'm scared to eat and end up in pain. I did lose 25 lbs a few years ago and have kept it off but I hurt my knee and have not been able to work out like I was then, which was probably too hard resulting in the knee injury in the first place lol. I went through periods of not wanting to leave the house, of going grocery shopping and leaving a half full cart just sitting in and aisle as I ran for my car to speed home to "get away" only to realize there was nothing to get away from because you can't escape yourself. I have had a time where I had vertigo so bad I couldn't leave my bed and had to be put on medication just to get back and forth to the bathroom...that just kind of went away, thank God, not sure if it was anxiety related or not. I was put on a combination of meds, after years and years of playing the guessing game and the doctor really doesn't care game, and finally felt like a "normal functional human". I was on clonazepam, amitriptyline, escitalopram, and my doctor was testing me for EVERYTHING!!! She was taking each of my complaints one by one and trying to figure it all out. Which is when she came up with the pernicious anemia diagnosis and I had to go have iron infusions and started on b12 injections, supposedly for the rest of my life but thanks to our lovely healthcare system and being "poor white trash" I no longer have a regular doctor and am not on anything anymore so back into the black whole of anxiety and whatever else is going on with me...