For the last 2 months I've been having physical symptoms such as nausea, abdominal pain, bloating, stomach gurgling, stomach flutters/pulsating/ twitching, heartburn, chest pain, muscle twitches , skin and muscle hypersensitivity, being startled easy. I went to my doctor who couldn't find anything wrong so she just said it was anxiety. However, when this started I didn't feel very anxious at all maybe just slightly stressed. Is it possible that I just exacerbated the stress by worrying about my symptoms too much or could there be an underlying cause of my symptoms. Has anyone had anything similar to this? Please help cuz my worrying about this is just getting worse. Thank you!
I starting having physical symptoms a month ago when my High school friend passed away. I was dizzy everyday like the derealization feeling, muscle weakness, muscle twitches, pressure in my left ear and left side of my head. I have bad anxiety so I couldn't understand why all these symptoms just came on at once. I swore up and down I had a brain tumor! I had blood work done which was normal. I had a Ct scan done and it was normal...the pressure has since then gone away so yes anxiety can heighten those symptoms and make them worse. The absolute worst thing you can do is google your symptoms because it'll make you think terrible things and get your anxiety going even worse. My doctor says it's most certainly my anxiety that caused it.
Okay thanks for the help about how long did it take for your symptoms to go away?
I'm still having them. Besides the pressure on the left side of my head and the muscles twitches have went away. I was put on sertraline 50mg last week and waiting on those to get in my system and start working. It's an antidepressant but also works on anxiety. I'm hoping my physical symptoms will go away when the anxiety is under control!
My doctor put me on that but I had terrible side effects so now I'm trying therapy but today is just a bad day for my anxiety and I just can't get myself to get off google. It's terrible
I know how you feel. It's hard. But anxiety can't hurt you. You just have to accept it and kind of ignore it at the same time. I know that doesn't make sense.
My main problem is that one minute I can tell myself it's just my anxiety I'll be okay and then the next minute my mind will go but there's a chance it's not. And that's when I get attacks and have to start googling symptoms and stuff.
Dr.Google stinks. Its not comforting at all. No doctors cares what it says. Its prudent information that some person types in. Some of its is dead on incorrect too. Lies. You think its like a bible but its science and science isnt written in stone, its not a religon. It changes on a dime and it will terrify you or at times give you false hope. So personally yes i have googled like a fool but i cant stand it. I really cant stand it almost resent it at this point. The internet can be useful in other ways though. Pinterest has so much alternative and positive stuff. Utube and books and such. Dr, google is dr. Evil hahah. The day i can submit my blood or saliva and it can proprly interpret or scan me or examine me is when i like it better lol.
Thank you I really needed that! I'm gonna try my best to stay off google haha
Yes I am the same way! One minute I'll be ok and the next I freak out. It's like you're in a circle with the anxiety. It sucks. We have to break the circle and know that this will all get better in time!
Ive concluded we dont trust the process of life. We just dont. And because of that well we are always fighting to swim upstream with no rationale and no reason for it. Maybe cynical personalities i dont know if thats a thing and i think impatient. Put no trust and impatient together it doesnt go so well. I read we only know to go off past experiences in life and when that didnt go so well it makes one cynical or whatever word would be befitting. But dr. Google i cant stand. Look even on the positive stuff it says i went to the doctor for my ear..they didnt follow google at all. Maybe google doesnt know insurance doesnt want people doing all that and that its not always so cut and dry on being all prudent and then wallah life is good lol. So deleting the terrifying fear that it tends to provide overall even trying to follow the positive aspect it is wrong. And then i try to go into forums too. And i use them in good times myself to try and help others but it is mostly very unhapoy people or desperate ones on it. Me me included and it is nice not to all alone in all this even with ailments. We are animals and we need refuge and solace so we search it out. Lol that was a long reply. I think many of is know this whole fear thing is sabatoge and all that its breaking this knowledge from the learning to doing and living that seems to be the issue haha. Hence meditation, hypnotherapy to some degree if you can find a really good one..etc..then wed see the world and ourselves differently. Same world mind you but we would have a healthier perspective of it, some people really love life. They trust for the most oart, they accept stuff and just know how to ride thru life. Annoying isnt it hahahahaha.i know a couple of these laid back type b personality people. Envious wouldnt even be the tip of what i feel when interacting with them.
Very well said!!
This endless circle is just terrible and I wish there was an easier way to just jump out of it besides medications and all that kind of stuff.
Hopefully one day there will be. Sometimes this stuff all goes away for spans of time as well. I have had that in my life.i dont know is really behind it nor does anyone else just yet. Its global. 25 percent of the world have some issues. 18 percent have anxiety disorders so thats a ton of people. Thats whatbstops me from believing its diet related. They have it in jaoan they eat so well all fish and healthy stuff, they have it in new Zealand, middle east, they have it in china, they have it in the uk, usa, its global. That to me would delete its what we eat maybe. I dont know lol. I think half use medications, they dont work on half.thats the statitics. Again who knows. Ive wondered if its a personality type too, or a virus (maybe epstein barr) that was awakened somehow, mercury levels, genetics, trauma that awakened it or burns the nuerotransmitter out..so many theories, or does it all start in thengut. Mal absorbtion then cant properly make serotonin ninety oercent is made in the gut. I hope to live to see the cure i do want to know.
The world may never know what the cause behind it is but I also hope to live to the day they find a cure for it.
You kmow i just read some scientists are transplanting a head of one person to in another body. Not even the movie s here in real life. Theres a movie like this. Do you believe this stuoidity? This is what they are focusing on. Clearly science because i would think this would screw uo the souls awfully, but we need cures for the issues at hand not that crap. I dont understand why that made news or why they are doing it at all. They cant figure much of anything but this is what they deciede is important.here or how that matters much for the people and the millions who are ill will no cures. Haha nothing to do with life just randomly venting.. this is our lovely world
I heard they were attempting a head transplant but I just don't see how that will end well. But more power to them if that's what they choose to invest their time in. Someone should tell them there's more important things to study tho.
Hello Sara.
Yes the symptoms you describe are all classic signs of "anxiety" , i know as i suffer from those symptoms on a regular basis.
If you visit your GP / Doctor they can help and will make you an appointment with the Well Being service and you can also be referred to a counsellor.
It is not easy to make the first step to get help but it is worth doing and you are not alone with this problem.
I had the same thing for 2 months, started off with the dizzy unbalanced feeling like I was walking on a boat, then like you I googled it and convinced myself I had a brain tumor or MS, well everything got worse then, I was so ill, weight loss, no energy or apitite, buzzing and vibrations in my head and awful trmors all the time inside my body, terrible beely aches especially in the morning etc etc, i had never had anything like it before and like you didnt think i was anxious when it all started but I think by google convincing me I was going to die, the worry caused all those horrible physical symptoms , it wasnt until I got told it was most likely anxiety and started reading up on the physical symptoms that anxiety can cause and reading similar stories on here , that I finally beleived it and all the symptoms started to go away, my appetite came back, the weight came back on, the tremors stopped, my bowel returned to pretty much normal and my energy came back. I still get the vibrating thing in my head in the early hours of the morning and a bit dizzy at times but I am so much better. If you feel you have to go on google then google physical symptoms caused by anxiety, you will be amazed what it can do. good luck, Im sure you will get better soon .