My anxiety has been through the roof lately but I'm in fear it's not anxiety and it's something more sinister. I'm 29 years old female and I smoke im 128 pounds and 5'4. I've suffered anxiety my whole life but it's getting worse. I get so shaky and lightheaded then get extremely hot and feel nauseous. I hyperventilate constantly and always have a pain in my chest. Lately I've been having heartburn and acid reflux. I feel like my heart is just going to explode and I'm going to drop dead at any moment. I just checked my blood pressure and it was 152/92 and I've never had high blood pressure before. I'm sick and tired of always being so in my head with these horrible thoughts of dying. Please help!!
I understand what your going through, im in the military and recently decided to get out and do bigger and better things. since i was a kid i have always been worried about my health and life, and now i feel more stressed than ever. i have constant heart palpitations and i get dizzy sometimes, even while driving, my bp is normally 150/82, it feels like im going to die sometimes and it makes it worse....all i can say is that your not alone with this! so never feel like your alone.
thats what helps me the most, is to know im not alone, people have worse issues, and to know that its gonna be ok.
Jacquelyne all I can offer to you is what I'm going through as well. And its health anxiety. I posted earlier today the same message on how I feel there something more "sinister" going on. Can I ask if you had any test with your doctor? I know I have and I still feel as if there's something not right. Do you take anything for anxiety?
5 years ago after I had my first child I went through severe anxiety and was at my doctors office once or twice a week with a new fear. This went on for a good year. I Mostly thought I had cancer. My doctor ran every test he could on me and told me it was all related to anxiety. The fear of going through all the MRIs, cat scans, X-rays and blood work again makes me literally cringe. I'm at the point where I fear that if there is something wrong with me other the anxiety I don't think I can take it so I'd rather not know. I actually had to go to my dr today bc I have a what I thought was hernia in the center of my chest and I was terrified my dr was going to send me in for a X-ray and find something like lung cancer. He didn't though and the lump on my chest is actually just my sternum. He said it's just more pronounced and noticeable but nothing bad. I need to go have a physical done because I'm way over do for one but I fear so much that they will find something and I'd rather not know even though I'm going crazy not knowing. I'm not on any medication for my anxiety. Anxiety Medication oddly enough makes my anxiety 20 times worse.
I'm sorry for what your going through anxiety is so scary sometimes. The dizzy spells and heart papaltions are the worst. I'm a hairstylist and the worst thing ever is feeling like your going to faint from hyperventilating while doing a haircut. I try and cover it up because I'm so worried my clients will think I'm crazy or on drugs. Sometimes after I finish a client I run into the break room and burst into tears because it's all to much to handle.
I definatley hear you on not wanting to know if something is wrong. I was that same way! its not crazy its just burring your head in sand sydrom. Lol i made that sydrom up of course but you get what im saying right?. I did that all the time up till two months ago when i got a bad vitral infection. That really spiraled my health anxiety. And here ia am now. Thinking somethings realy wrong when doctors have assured me theres not.
​Have you ever seen any one for xanex od clonopan? Those are quick fixes for anxiety.
I've had anxiety sense I was a child I remember washing my hands so much that they would bleed. I was so scared of germs or getting sick that I constantly had to wash all the germs off of me. When I got a little older like in my teens my anxiety went away completely and I had no fear in anything, until I was in my 20s and had my first child, my vision all of sudden started changing and started becoming blurry so I went to a eye dr who couldn't figure out the cause and sent me to a specialist who told me it was most likely a brain tumor and sent me in for a MRI. My anxiety came back with avengenes after that. My MRI came back clean and come to find out it was only dry eye but ever sense having that fear of having a brain tumor 5 years ago, my anxiety is out of control. So I can relate to how your anxiety all of sudden came from a health scare. On top of health anxiety I have social anxiety. I'm literally exhausted with everything I put myself through on a daily basis. I drive myself crazy. I just wish there was some kind of magic pill to make our anxiety disappear without any nasty side effects. I have been prescribed xanax and i couldn't stand it making me feel like a zombie so I couldn't take it any longer. I've also been prescribed Ativan and it did the same zombie like affect. I've been prescribed so many different medications for anxiety that I've just stopped taking after a few days that I could probably run my own pharmacy with all the full bottles in my cabinet.
I used to do the same thing as you though anytime my dr. Reasurred me I wasn't dying I'd think he missed something. That mostly came from me googling too much and reading stories of how someone's doctor missed their dignosis of what disease they had. I try to stay away from webmd these days because it makes everything 20 times worse. But anytime I get a headache or a pain out of the oridarnary I automatically assume the worst but I feel like if I don't google my symptoms and instead wait a day or two that the pain goes away and I forget about it.
Hey there I sympathise with how you are feeling as I have had anxiety most of my life and I am 46 now.It seems there is no magic pill out there and I like many other people have tried them all! I am surprised nobody picked up on the part where you said you ar a smoker! I smoked most of my life but I finally stopped two years ago. The reason I mention it is because in my long experience with anxiety one thing has become clear, it is very important to be physically reasonably healthy. I found that when I was smoking I was just exausted from them all the time. No matter how much I slept I could not sleep off the tirdness from smoking, add the anxiety into the mix and I was just miserable, as anxiety makes us lethargic anyway.Now when I am anxious at least I can take a breath full of air.Have you considered quitting? I know as good as anyone that it is not easy but very worth it! The number one best way in the world to quit smoking at the moment is the "allen carr method", millions of people have quit easily using it.here is the website if you are any ways curious; http://www.allencarr.ie/.There are clinics in most countries. I am guessing the smoking bothers you as you mentioned it here. Anxiety causes all sorts of physical symtoms, and then the way our "anxious heads" works, we tend to think the worst! Best of luck to you