Trouble Swallowing/ Head pressure

Apparently ALL of us who have all these awful disabling symptoms are all anxiety. I think they should seriously change the name from anxiety disorder to SEVERE neurological disorder that causes all sorts of unexplained physical symptoms! It seriously causes ALL sorts of crazy neurological problems apparently with me and everyone else on this site and always they say anxiety. They need to just change the name anxiety because to me anxiety just means being nervous. a lot of the time i'm not even nervous until I have all these damn symptoms. In fact I wouldn't be nervous or have anxiety at all if I didn't have all my physical symptoms. CRAZY

 

I’m right there with yea, last night I had probably the worst attack of my life and it took everything in me not to call 9-11. I’ve been to the emergency 10 times since I started having these attacks, it’s not embarrassing but it is frustrating so I get it. I also struggle accepting that this could just be all in my head, but at the end of the day I find it helps to think back to my very first attack and think of just those symptoms. It helps be remember that despite having 9,000 other new symptoms since then the first one was very much just a black and white panic attack. Keep going, keep breathing, and remember your not alone. It’s not fair that we’ve got this horrible condition but it’s our lives now and we have to find a way to live with it. 

Yeah, I have also been to the Er with all REAL symptoms and REAL problems, it is not in our heads. but I was told my whole life by everyone that it's all in my head which is devastating and ruins a persons self esteem. I was always told that or that I ''wanted to be sick'' or that there's nothing wrong with me, sometimes I think that's more awful than being sick. I'm called a hypochondriac. because whenever I went to hospital or doctor i'd be pretty much fine apart from some abnormalities. TIL recently when I just kept getting worse and worse and ended up finding out that my brainwaves are all abnormal. One neurologist thought I had epilepsy, Another best neurologiust around that specialized in epilepsy didn't think I hand anything too bad, but said I did have all abnormal brainwaves throughout the entire test. But he said my brain is just different. It was ALL I NEEDED to make me completely change. I used to feel So awful about myself because of the fact everyone thought my whole life I was faking it or wanted to be sick etc. I got the proof I needed even though doctor considered me disabled a LONG tiem ago nobody ever believed it and said I was scamming the system and just made me feel awful. But once I finally had proof for myself that it's all caused by my brain, I felt ENRAGED. I am SO SO SO sick of bullies and people who accuse and blame you of faking it or being lazy. They are A**holes and I am at the point in my life 41 years old that I NO LONGER ever have to explain myself to anybody, or explain what's wrong with me to them. I have the proof I need and I am SO angry at these people  they can all go screw themselves for all the abuse I dealt with WHILE suffering from this crippling illness. Bad enough I have to suffer every day ALL DAY with my illness on top of it I had to be told nothing was wrong with me and I wanted to be sick. they're all complete jerks and I no longer care about these ignorant people. Please if you have low self esteem or if you fee bad about yourself. Don't wait until you have proof that it's the brainwaves or an auto immune or MS or this or that or just anxiety alone. My friend has M.S. and suffers a lot of symptoms although it seems way less than me unless he's actually having an attack where it paralyzes the area but you can't tell by looking at him he has M.S so in the beginning everyone thought he was crazy or hypochondriac also. it's a very old mindset. I don't think ANYONE wants to be sick or really anyone is faking illness. They really feel what they feel. A lot of things cause symptoms. YES some of us are extremely hypersensitive (I know I am) but it gives nobody the right to say these things. it's becoming very obvious to me that ''anxiety disorder'' is obviously a very serious crippling neurological disease no different than schizophrenia major depression bipolar etc. We need to stick up for ourselves and start not caring what people think, we're the ones suffering not them.