I’ve had intense anxiety for over a year now and symptoms come and go but this has been especially bad the last few months. I feel like there’s constantly a pressure in my head, partially a headache but also it makes it for me to concentrate and focus and I often feel like I’m going to pass out from it. I feel light headed. I also sometimes have trouble breathing no matter how many breathing exercises I do. I can never go anywhere ever or I’ll feel sick and tired and ready to panic that something bad will happen like me passing out (granted, I have yet to actually pass out so thag makes my fear worse) sometimes I Also get super nauseous and I also gag a lot in the morning but never throw up. But the head pressure is by far the worst of them all I feel like there’s genuinely something wrong with my brain like a tumor from all the brain fog. I’ve been avoiding going on medication and trying to help myself naturally but it’s so hard. I don’t want to go on a medication and become addicted or be attached to it or get horrible side effects. I will start seeing a therapist though. Does anyone else have these symptoms and what has your experience on medication been?
Sorry you are going through this! I have similar symptoms- Anxiety is a terrible thing and symptoms always changing and can take a long time to change. I am going on 5 years of anxiety and panic attacks - it has turned my life upside down! I just remind myself this to shall pass!
Hi stacey.
I can understand how you are feeling.. my advice would be either tell convince yourself that you dontt have brain tumor it's just anxiety and keep yourself busy in interested stuff or go to psychiatrist and start taking medication if its hard for you to handle yourself...all i know after reading your post is you are having severe anxiety.and your psychiatrist will diagnose generalized anxiety disorder..
I have been gone through all this what you are having .
Hope this helps..
Thanks,
Umar khan
Reading this seems like I typed it.. when I tell you this is me all the way I’m so seriously I feel exactly how u feel everyday.. but currently I am having a problem with my breathing now like I have to gasp for air every once in a while and I’m starting to panic but I’m afraid to take medication also
No one can diagnose you but a doctor. But you said for over a year you have headaches and they seem like pressure headaches and you get lightheaded. Now I'm not saying you have it because it is rear. I learned in 2014 that i have it. But its called intracranial hypertension also known as Pseudotumor cerebri. To much spinal fluid basically. It can mimic the signs of a tumor but there really is no tumor. Look it up.
I got the gagging in the morning too when I woke up and went to the toilet when does yours happen ?
What are your headaches like? Yeah I have the same symptoms
Usually after i get out of bed. I used to have a milder form of this in high school about 5 years ago (before I had anxiety or at least anything close to this level) but it wouldn’t last long now it can go on for like 10 minutes and it gets really intense. Often it happens right before I leave for work
Will look into it! I forgot to mention I have been unofficially diagonosed with GAD by multiple doctors who have pushed me to see a therapist I just haven’t gotten around to it yet
I’ve had so many symptoms the past year! I try and remind myself it will last but this head and breathing stuff have been going on for months now 😕
I have different kinds. Sometimes I just have a general pain/pressure for days around my head. Sometimes a specific spot hurts like the top of my head or my temple of the bottom of my head. Lately it’s not so much a headache as it is a general weird feeling of my brain not being right. I feel lightheaded and feel like I can only half focus on everything around me. I also feel tired from it
Same as me how long have you had it for ? What do your drs say about it ?
I was like that a month ago. Now I am still lightheaded but I get head pains for a few seconds. Don’t be scared yours all sounds like anxiety. I’m very scared for my “head pains” cause it seems like I’m the only person on the planet who gets them haha