ive had anxiety basically my whole life but lately symptoms has changed if it even is anxiety, im going through hormonal changes as well. i constantly have tension in my neck my head is not right constant feeling spacey off balance i have a feeling of a tight band around my head head feels heavy as well. mornings is so bad as i keep having the adrenaline surge in my stomach and internal jitters and feeling wired. thing is i dont know what triggering any of it as im not panicking over anything. i feel all this 24/7 i cant function or enjoy doing anything scared of all this horrible things. only thing i can think if is hormonal shifts causing all of this. the head symptoms is the worst and just want it to stop seems its effecting my vision as well seems off not sure how to explain it but i can see just fine. anybody else experience any if this with anxiety?
Yes, anxiety can change symptoms all the time. And I can honestly say I think I have had every one that you have mentioned at one point. It can be hormonal changes, it can be just about anything causing it.
Have you tried therapy? Or antidepressants? Have you had your hormone levels checked? I would talk to your Doctor about it, no need to feel so bad all the time I learned that the hard way, I waited and pushed it off for years. The medicines really do work!
Best Wishes
hi thanks for replying ive been in therapy didn’t help much ive tried so many meds for anxiety with not much improvement. the latest one ive tried is vistaril 50 mg three times a day, my hormones was checked three years ago need to have those rechecked again. i just dont know how to keep going without some relief it’s getting the best of me.
Hello and feel your pain you couldnt have wrote my life everyday any better.Feel exactly the same way as you its so awful im a mum of 5 and just dont feel here anymore.The mornings are the worst from my stomach to feeling super spacey have every test over the years and all say Anxiety its so hard to believe thats really what it is feel like im going crazy or could die any moment.Just stay positive and know its nothing bad and so many are feeling the same way as us wish there was a miracle cure.Do think hormones are to blame for sure being a woman is hard on us mentally and physically shall pray that you feel better soon and that we can get on with our lifes how we remember i do miss feeling normal thats for sure.
ive experienced every single symptom that youve spoken of here. it is anxiety. youre going to be ok. dont worry… i know thats easier said that done… but talking helps. feel free to mesg if u need to talk.
It does sound like a change in anxiety, i seem to have a different symptom of this awful illness every 24 hours, its like i cant keep up with what i am going to have next and like you its starts the minute i open my eyes however by about 5pm most evenings i start to feel 50% normal, i go to sleep praying i will wake up in the morning feeling like i do in the evening but no groundhog day. its back 100% again and then i wait to find out what symptom is going to scare me all day that day. I really feel for you and everyone else who suffers as i just dont know how to cope some days, i am under a counsellor and am going to start medication next week to see if it makes any different as i cannot continue on the path i am on. sending a big hug out to you.
thanks for all your replies yes its hard and i pray we all get peace and our lives back, i do think hormones is causing it to be so much worse. the only thing i have tried that helped my anxiety a few years ago was klonopine but the psychiatrist took me off and switched me to gabapentin and that didn’t go very well at all. my dr seems to want to keep me on this vistaril which has no effect what so ever and ive tried telling her this. i stopped seeing the psychiatrist because she didn’t want to put me back on klonopine. ive tried so many effexor,prozac, Lexapro,zoloft,paxil, gabapentin, vistaril, Wellbutrin many makes things worse and some have no effect what so ever. i try the exercises my therapist told me to do and it doesn’t help.
yes i can relate to your symptoms especially the head and neck my doctor has said its anxiety i’m 5yrs postmenopausal but i keep telling him is it the head and neck causeing the anxiousness,have really dull headaches everyday and the off balance my neck is really painful especially on theright hand side someone told me it could be cervicogenic headache or cervical spondolosis but my gp said its caused from anxiety i know its not but i’m going to change gp as the one i’m with seems only interested in dishing pills out without looking further testing
i seem to think my neck is causing all the head stuff as well and being made worse from hormones and anxiety ive recently saw an audiologist and says he cant find the cause. im not post yet but wish i was it’s so hard getting through the change and anxiety on top of it all
Yes this is horrible. I’m going on a week for wellbutrin and have been on buspar almost a month. I have to say I’ve felt better that before the meds. I also take lorazepam at night so I don’t wake up with all those horrible anxiety symptoms. it has helped. I as well feel so much better come evening. So weird. My only issue right now is I still have very little appetite. Anxiety stole my appetite months ago and it just doesn’t want to return. I know I’d feel about 80% better if I would just eat like I used too. I know a lot of my issues are hormonal related. I was at negative 15 in my estrodial. Just got a pellet booster yesterday as it only went up to 30. I know there are better days ahead for us all.
my appetite has also suffered, i lost over a stone in 4 weeks and i did not need to lose weight as i was a healthy size 12. i now have to force myself to eat and i am up to
1000 calories a day from 200, it can take me half an hour to eat a small yoghurt! what helped me was having a routine and a certain time to eat and slowly i increase d my calory intake hope this helps 
I remember before I went through the change a nurse telling me that the hormones don’t cause more problems but it can make existing ones worse. I found this to be true.
I think the first thing you need to check is if you are starting the menopause, and if you are I found HRT really helped me. It might you as well.
The good news is that once you are through it life is great again - in fact better than before as you aren’t at the mercy of your hormones any more. You can wear white trousers again and aren’t worried about getting pregnant. It’s like a new lease of life. x