Terrified about symptoms, keep being told anxiety. Help!

I had sever axiety depression due to it . I use to be such happy going women now yea 3 years so still issues Julez and basically not going out every day doing things keep me busy my wheel chair broken till Canada care gets to it . My doctor say this due to what I went through having disease sort of like having shock to your body many people said well ifd be depressed to . On medication for that but I want to hopefully get off every thing one day . When you had gbs you didn’t go paralyze all of your body ? Did you feel sick like not normal inside of you like some thing was not normal ? And are you having any issues with nerve damage ? Do u think it’s pissible that the numbness in my feet part of leg is just nerve damage ? 

Hi caroline! I did not have as extreme as a case and did not have paralysis. There are varying degrees of GBS and it depends on how aggressive your body attacks the nerves. I never had axonal damage so I could still walk but barely and I did have numbness in part of my feet and legs which resolved with physical therapy, massage and time. I did feel awful inside. I felt so shaky all of the time because my body felt so weak. I had lots of pain and tremendous fatigue. I did have a little nerve damage and can still tell when I overdo things with the parts of my body that were hit so hard. My symptoms began after I received a Tdap vaccine four years ago. My immune system began attacking the myelin sheath of my nerves. It's called molecular mimicry. Some structures are so similar to the myelin sheath on the nerves like the Tdap vaccine structure and some immune systems have a tough time with this. The good thing about nerves is that they can recover if not damaged too badly. Some vaccines, viruses, and substances have structures similar to other things in the body and can trigger this response especially when there is hereditary factor of this type of immune system and the conditions are right. My doctor told me that there is a 2 to 5 year recovery period with GBS and I have learned that the recovery period can go beyond that for some people. Have you tried physical therapy? It has to be the right physical therapy.

hi julie do u kno about fnd if so any advice ?