Hoping for some insight

Mental health
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I will try and be brief!

- last 6 months being suffering constant lightheadness, headache and severe fatigue which has really impacted my ability to work or function properly (just don't have energy to think or do).

- Eventually seen consultants.  One ENT and one neurologist.  I have also had two sets of blood tests testing multiple things. Both consultants and my GP belive that the symptoms I am suffering are psychological and due to stress and anxiety.  Treatment recommended is relaxtion and plenty of water I kid you not!

- I've suffered crippling depression and anxiety all my adult life (say 30 years) and been on medication for nearly 15 years.  I have also had a drinking problem all my life too. I have therefore learned through bitter experience 

- so last 12 months I have managed to quit booze, get myself fit, I'm in the final stages of weening myself off the anti depressants, radically simplified my life style and moved away from a stressful business and feel good as I get regular exercise and lots of love from my family.  I have genuingly managed to learn to cope with my anxiety and I am a much more relaxed philosophical person.

Why now therefore is the obvious question.  Why not when I have been truly anxious and depressed and at the point where I couldn't cope?

So my question is this:

- has anybody else experienced lightheadness (swaying rather than spinning), headaches and fatigue all at the same time and beleive it was due to anxity & stress?

- if so where those symptoms constant (I've had them constantly every day for 6 months day or night it makes no difference) or do they just appear during particularly bad spells of anxiety or stress?

- has anyone else been in the eaxct same position as me and had this diagnosis when they are convinced it is caused by something else?

Sorry i ahve tried to be brief and I really hope someone can help.

Thanks

Haaz

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Yes all these things are common with anxiety,as is a difficulty in believing DR's when they blame it on anxiety. That's just how anxiety goes, physical symptoms come and go in what seems a random fashion,but it's anxiety all the same

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Welcome to the club of health anxiety

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Just been researching vitamin D3 deficiency...gona ask for a blood test....sounds interesting

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I have had that same feeling like everyhing was swaying  I felt it constantly for about 2 months they thouhgt it might have been vertigo? I was also told it could have been anxiety and sure enough now it's gone. I have been having a lot of issues with my heart racing and stuff but I have had all these test done and everything checks out they say it's fine even though it feels really wrong still so I hope it will go away as well. I was also told to takr magnesium and vitamin B2 for the dizziness! That might have been the other thing that helped! You should give it a try.

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Many thanks for the replies guys.

So we believe that these symptoms can arise as a result of anxiety in the past even though I'm not suffering with anxity and stress at the current time (well as far as I can tell!)?

I don't doubt they are symptoms of anxiety it is the timing of it that is baffling me. Why now?

Thanks

Haaz