Hello, So for the past two years I have dealt with Anxiety and it has gotten me into some right states health wise. I often look well generally ill and run down. My bad days hugely outweigh the good and it impacts a lot of my life. I struggle getting through a day of work, let alone doing something fun! I struggle shopping as i tense up so much, my balance goes and panic symptoms flood. I get breathless, palpitations, faint and dizzy completely out the blue. I also had quite bad IBS symptoms. Recently I have been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Vit D3, iron (been bleeding a lot passing stool) deficiency due to it. The specialist thinks I have had it a good year given the presentation of it in my colon. I am now starting new medication for that which is helping. frustratingly 5 of the main anxiety symptoms (breathlessness, palpation, fatigue, balance and shakes) are also main colitis symptoms which explains why anxiety treatment didn't work as i had an autoimmune problem. My biggest concern though is my wife. she has been hugely supportive and really worried about me. Its been affecting our relationship as its limiting what we do as a couple. if we go out. its either my anxiety or UC which ruins it and i feel guilty for it! on my days off, I am knackered from the effort of just getting through work and often dont feel up to doing much. I moan a lot more than i should as well because she is the only person i can talk about this with. Everyone else gets the front that all is fine! Can anyone relate? How do you improve things relationship wise? - We have been together 9 years, married for 1.
i completley feel tour pain, i too have ulcerative colitis and suffer with severe anxiety. currently in the middle of a UC flare up which has unfortunatley made my anxiety rocket and i am having allsorts of awful physical symptoms as you - diziness feeling faint palpitations. mysef and my husband are going through a really rocky oatch at the moment (together 16 years married 1) theough no fault of his own. he tries to be there for me but i get frustrated with him as he doesnt understand so when i am having one of my panic attacks or high anxiety moments he just tells me to snap out of it. The UC has a huge impact too when im in a flare up as i am so tired and emotional. it is hard i wont lie to you but just bare with it, once your medication is right for the UC you will find the anxiety becomes controllable too x