Anxiety High Again

Mental health
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Hello everyone, I hope each of you are doing well or if not, that you are finding the strength to get you through X

I posted the other day as I was worried that my woozyness/off balance and light headed feeling was worse since catching a bug. The bug seems to be passing and I do feel a little better, I am also keeping on with the medication my GP gave me for suspected eustachian trouble causing my woozy sensation and balance trouble.

Yesterday one ear felt better but the other didn't, which made me feel a bit worse as I felt woozy on my right side and it triggered my anxiety. I had a panick attack but I managed to calm myself down and get on with things. I noticed that once I was calmer that sensation of being woozy on one side seemed to subside.

I couldn't sleep last night well at all, which lets me know I am badly anxious... I seem to only ever fall into a light sleep which is broken frequently and leaves me disorientated. I also feel like I get no real sleep and by the time I need to get up I feel tired.

It sounds ridiculous but sometimes I wonder if I do have problems with my ears or if I am generating these symptoms... This is quite a thing for me to admit, because for the past nine months I have been so desperately scared, convinced I had a brain tumour.

I've been to my GP many times over the last few months and he felt that I began with ear trouble which my anxiety then attached too... Sometimes I expect to feel dizzy when I don't, I even dream about feeling dizzy. It governs my entire thought process and leads to terrible anxiety.

I am not as bad as I was but today I feel just generally anxious. I was worrying in the early hours of this morning about things, even my husband commuting for work.

My anxiety is definitely high.

I just wanted to share really sometimes I feel so isolated by my anxiety that I can't speak to people, or I feel that I lay too much upon the few people I do tell.

Sorry, I hope I'm not being a nuisance x

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Hi sillymop u are not being a nuisance anxiety is a horrible thing ive been on citriloparm 10 mg and on day 16 just wanna be myself again and how much longer have i got to wait for this to happen x

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Dear Sillymop

I know how you feel. I feel like I burden people when talking to them about my anxiety. I usually just keep it all to myself.

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The worse thing you can do is keep it to yourself, I always feel better when I talk to people about how I'm feeling.

The dizziness and being light headed is what scares me the most about anxiety which then makes me worries and more worked up. Just got to think it is anxiety and it can't physically harm you in anyway or you won't get hurt... that's what I've had to get over.

Hope you're ok X

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Hi sally are you on meds for your anxiety and how long does it take to feel better x

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I know what you mean... I am sorry you sometimes feel like a burden, I can truly empathise with you. Some times, especially when I feel I have pushed my poor loved ones to the limit I sit a cry, just needing a physical release for what I feel inside.

This forum has been a godsend. I wish I had found it sooner..to be able to share and speak with others in a similar situation is such a blessing.

This year has been so hard that sometimes I wonder if I will ever find a sense of normality within myself again. I think of how I was this time last year and I feel like a shadow of that person... That is frightening.

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No im not on anything at all, I really don't wanna go down that route at all.

Download an app called MindShift if you have an iPhone/iPad. Really helps :-)

I've just looked up breathing/medical techniques and this really helps too X

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Thank you, Sally yes... The dizzyness and light headedness is very frightening. It's a new symptom to me and I am still not utterly convinced that I don't have some dreaded sinus or ear problem. I do still fear I have worse but I try not to linger on that fear as much as I did.

I've always been healthy and suddenly I fear my mortality. Everything I suddenly question... Health anxiety has definitely hit me hard... Of all the anxiety I have experienced, this is by far the worst

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hiya i answered ur post a while ago i cauit an ear virus last year and ive been having balance issues and anxiety ever since, jus lately ive also been experiencing dizziness off balance on and off headaches nausea, it did calm down a bit while i was experiencing other symtons, now theyve gone its come back again, theres always something, i too think ive got a brain clot or a tumour XX

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Hi Mopsy!

How dare you apologize for being ill, you naughty creature!

Nuisance my ass

Feeling like a burden to loved one's is common with AD sufferers. As is feeling isolated and alone, as though the Ad has seperated one from normality and those around us

Lightheadedness is one of the most unpleasant and frightening symptoms of Ad and one I used to dread. It might be only momentarily but the fear it induces can unsettle one for hours

When it occurs you must be firm with yourself mentally

Say, Ugh, that was nasty!

But it's passed now

And get on with the day, not allowing it to hover in your mind

When it's gone it's gone but the quickest and surest way to invite it back in is to fear it's return

Until the eustachian tube is functioning normally you can expect to feel woozy and odd. The ears are our "balance" It is common to have balance problems with ear problems. Doubtless when you feel woozy your anxiety enforces it. Having a bug exacerbated everything

But all in all Mopsy, you are doing just fine. You are thinking things through. trying to make sense of them as opposed to allowing your imagination run wild.

Overcoming AD is a slow and difficult process but you appear to be going about it the right way

Hang in there honey!

Hugs, helen.. and quit apologizing, lol, No one posting? No Forum! Okay?

 

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I know what you mean. I just want to feel normal again. I hate how anxiety has physical done my body. The last 9 months have been a nightmare for me. I hate feeling like a problem for my husband even though he assures me that I'm not.

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Haha OK that is true! If no one posted it would be redundant. I didn't think of that!

I've had Horris pains in the sinuses around my forehead and ears like a squeasing, swollen pain which is not nice and I'm hoping it isn't the medication causing it but instead is the residue of the bug I had. I feel a bit sluggish and still a bit woozy. I am hoping that I'm not reacting to the meds though I would have thought if I was going to then I would have done so before now especially as I've been taking it for just over a week.

As you say, the woozyness is terrifying and when it lingers, or when it catches me if I move or stand up it frightens me and I begin to panick that something is wrong....that is my undoing really.

I'm desperately trying to remain calm and to not panick... To keep on the right track and see it through. I am quite anxious about my up coming GP appointment, in case she sends me off for tests... I'm still frightened that I have something wrong but I'm not so homed in on the one thing now... Not sure if that is good or bad! Lol

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Not Horris pains... Horrid ones instead! Lol

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Yes I remember you saying! Hello again and sorry to hear you too are still battling with it perhaps when your inner ear is put out of balance it can take a long time to heal... I have been wondering this myself. It doesn't make it any less worrying though so you have my sympathy!!! X

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You're never a nuisance, friend. We're all here for each other. I hope you begin to feel less and less anxious. If you ever need to chat, I'm usually around. (:

Peace...

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Strength in numbers, right?

This is our gathering place

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You're never being a nuisance on this particular forum, Sillymop. Isn't the idea that everyone helps one another?

Have you been tested for Meniere's Syndrome or Meniere's Disease?

They both cause dizziness but nausea is usually a factor as well.

Chrissie

 

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No I haven't, I am ashamed to say that I don't know what this is. And yes it does sometimes make me feel queasy

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Thank you, that is very kind of you the same applies to you!! I am often here

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Don't be ashamed, Mopsy. Google them (I rarely say that) as it's the quickest way to find out if you've got either of them - oh and they don't kill you or anything so don't get into a panic.

Chrissie