Hi all, I've posted on a few times. I got diagnosed with Anxiety in February and since been on Setraline (now 100mg) and (30mg) of Propranolol. Per recent posts my Anxiety was focused all of my health, I'm a fit active person, workout 6x per week. My anxiety focused mainly fast heart rate, chest pain, tight chest, worrying all day, IBS, shaking, some breathing difficulties and panic. I was convinced something was wrong with my heart, resulting in 4 months of hospital trips. Probably 10 EKGs in total, an echo heart scan. All came back perfectly normal. I then still worried, so the doctor gave me 24 hour monitor and results came back perfect. But even now I'm still convinced something is wrong, its crazy. throughout May and June I've been 99.9% back to my normal self. For these months I haven't even thought about my heart and suffered next to no symptoms. But slowly but surely started worrying about the next problem that could be wrong with me Now I'm back to worrying something is wrong with my health. I had chest pain today, so I've talked myself into a heart problem again. I've been for more BM than usual, so I'm worrying I have a bowel disease or cancer. Slight headache and I'm thinking I've had a stroke. 6 month of this now, will I ever recover? Sorry for the long post but today is a very bad day for me.
it is definitely a vicious cycle. Unless the cycle is broken it goes on for the rest of peoples lives. you have to get to the point where you say to yourself enough is enough. Go get your regular physical appointment once a year at least and if everything’s OK you absolutely must move on and forget about all of this. I know it’s not easy because I’ve been through it but I had to let it all go. Because when you allow it to go on, it starts affecting you physically such as high blood pressure, it can cause stomach issues like gastritis, ulcers, and other conditions. It’s just not worth it. While you are young, get some help with this through a counselor. when I think of all the worrying I did for absolutely nothing it really makes me upset. I wasted so many years doing that and with all the stress and fear and negativity and worry I ended up getting physically sick. . So please try to get help with this! Long term anxiety, stress, cause disease. Which basically means Dis-ease. The body is off balance . it is not at ease.
so if you can’t stop the negative thinking on your own, please get support. It’s very unhealthy to every cell in the body.
I thought to myself that it’s actually more unhealthy to stay in the anxiety cycle worrying about conditions that we don’t have and eventually get sick over it with who knows what. we could end up with something worse than what we’re worried about.
it would be worse to do that then to actually have A condition that can be treated. bowel conditions, heart conditions etc can be treated.
But don’t give yourself a condition that doesn’t now exist from all the anxiety and fear! Take care of yourself.
i feel for you thats how im feeling but im getting confuse like my head its so light and heavy lately plus so i dont know whether i have allegies that is or is in my head .im having digestive problem too recently had my bowel checked that was fine and normal ct scan showed no cancer .now waiting for gastrocopy .but in my head i keep thinking there is something wrong with me now im so tense that my body dont know how to relax..i so want to be normal .i want to try and fight this because i dont want to on anti deppressant