I have had general anxiety for about 7 years and also health anxiety for 5 years. I take mirtazapine 30mg once a day and propranolol 40mg three times a day. I know my anxiety is better than it was because at one point I struggled to leave the house to go to work or pick the kids up from school. I can do those things now with little to no anxiety. I get nervous being in a car as I have IBS and it freaks me out if I'm not near a toilet! I have convinced myself over the years that I have cancer, brain tumours and I'm always having a heart attack! Although the anxiety has lessened a bit I still regularly struggle and today has been a nightmare! I have convinced myself all day that I am going to die. I have had chest pains, difficulty breathing, a lump in my throat, my left arm aching, all of it and I am so upset! I haven't had a whole day of this for ages. Does this happen to anyone else where they feel not to bad for a while and then bam!
Hi Helen you got it just when you start thinking you might be getting better bam what the hell just happened o yes my old friend is back panic attacks anxiety back in full force just to remind me keep it real but I have found a way to control them instead of them control me
Hi Helen , since you are already on medication, you can try to go for a walk daily and be on a good diet, try to have someone who you trust to talk to about your aches and pains, i have exactly the same symptoms as you , i always feel like i am going to have a heart attack, my left arm is always hurting, sometimes near the hand, other times near the shoulder. i did all the required tests and all results were normal. doctors told me it was anxiety.
Hi Antony,
Did you believe the test results were normal? I'm not singling you out but it seems to me that all people with health anxiety go round and round all the doctors they can find, trying to be given a diagnosis of something.
I'm not blaming you, but what interests me is the way in which the people on this forum who have health anxiety are able to reassure one another, but still feel unreassured themselves.
I hope that makes sense.
I'm going through the same thing. No anxiety for a while and then bam constant anxiety for 2 months now! Same thing as you I always think something is wrong with me! And now since I've had anxiety for so long I don't even feel like myself anymore! What a horrible nightmare anxiety is, hope you feel better!
Hi Mac58, thank you for chatting with me there is always 1 % of my thoughts telling me that the tests and all the check ups results are not normal, today i went to the gym and as always started warming up, after running for 5 minutes i felt a burning sensation around the heart only and i felt faint and very drowsy( not to mention the constant left hand pain), i stopped training immediately and went to the cardiology doctor, then i did another EKG while some of the pain still there, the test was normal, that was more than 3 hours ago and i am still agitated till this moment. so you are true on the fact that it is easy to advice others but not easy to achieve progress at the personal level when it comes to anxiety. because of what happened to me today i will ask some question on heart forum. i feel sick to the bones and i feel aches and tiredness towards doing anything. my weakest point is that when i sense any type of pain and comes with a little bit of drowsiness and faint i feel very week and venerable plus the fear that i might drop dead any second despite all the tests and checkups.
It must be awful to feel like that, Antony. Very scary.