Hi, I All have tried to stop dwelling on my symptoms so much but it is constantly their. I mean one minute I can be typing and then the next minute I can look around and everything feels cloudy/hazy surreal and then starts the panic inside usually around the abdomen area and then through my body and then the tightness around head and ears before it starts to fade. I leaves my pulse beating quicker for a few seconds after and then these waves come and go all day.
The fear I think always stemmed about having a fear of seizures and I have read that much about them in the past and experienced numerous symptoms that match temporal lobe partial seizures that it has always stayed with me and never gone away. It is my biggest fear. But right now my biggest fear are these feelings that keep washing over me all day. I cant shrug them away. I wake up every day and its is their it even wakes me sometimes from my sleep.
I am not sure whether it is connected but since having these feelings their is tightness round back of head and ears and temples what is this all about? I also feel a sensitivity to sound like people are talking to loud.
have have you been to a neurologist yet? I actually get the same thing along with extreme dizziness and I have a really bad since tivity to noise also and my doctor said that that’s migraines.
What you describe is exactly what I have been getting for the last week and half!!!
I have been going out my mind.
I work in an office and just like you said one min I can be typing and next thing I can’t concentrate on anything, my head goes weird like there’s pressure in it, my vision doesn’t go blurry but it feels like I have something around my eyes as if i can’t open them fully even though they are open.
It’s also like i have lost energy. Everything is very surreal.
This can last about an hour and happens random times throughout the day even though it doesn’t feel as bad in evening.
I also sometimes get a weird feeling back of my head that comes and goes.
I suffer from anxiety anyway and have numerous times in the past thought i had a brain tumour or cancer but these is the first time i had symptoms like this.
I did have a nasty ear infection 3 weeks ago which I had antibiotics for but that cleared up a week later. I was worried maybe it hadn’t and had turned into meningitis but I saw the dr last week and he said my ears where clear apart from a lot of wax. I told him about my head and weird feelings but I didn’t really know how to explain it to him and once he looked in my ears he sent me on my way, he didn’t even take my blood pressure.
Since then it’s been another week and I still feel the same and i can’t get another appointment till 16th and I am going out my head with worry.
The weekend before this all started (2 weeks ago nearly) I did have a heavy night out in town with my mate and we did a lot of shots and on the Sunday i had a hangover which is unusual for me but I thought nothing of it but then on the Monday the above symptoms appeared and haven’t gone away since and now i am worrying about everything from a failing kidney to tumour or meningitis.
any advice would be greatly appreciated
hi christina i have seen the neurologist and he says its not a tumor or epilepsy he says this is anxiety but i dont believe it and he said no need for tests as had a few years ago and my symptoms dont correlate with epilepsy.
what can be causing these symptoms then?
i have suffered with all these symptoms you both have on and off sinse i was 19, im 34 now. my health anxiety was always centered around my bowels which always lead me to believe i had bowel cancer. i to have suffered with vision and servere bouts of de ja vu with adrenaline waves of fear. its a pain but after it giving me 2 nervous break downs and 2 stays in the psychiatric hospital i learned to manage it. trust me i was bad, my health anxiety was giving me really unusual behaviour.
constant weight checking ( 30 times a day atleast)
pressing on stomach looking for lumps
siving through stool to check colour and taces of blood.
checking consistency of stool.
constant checking of eyes and skin for anemia.
making myself sick to check for blood.
agressive behaviour ( this was the start of the break down)
got addicted to diazapam ( had to go to rehab twice)
pushing away my kids and wife.
taking myself away to an isolated spots and wait to die.
all this because i let it get on top of me. for my mind beat me and losing control.
this is where you both are heading if you dont start learning to manage this( especially you Jonathan) . mine hasnt gone away but its well controled to point now where i have a life so i can be a father and husband again.
you cant do it alone you need support and take any treatment you can( i mean anything is worth doing to make it stop or manageable).
the break down symptoms are much worse. just imagine wanting to sick every second of the day. thats just 1 symptom.
i hope you both can learn to accepts the anxiety and nip it in the bud before it destroys your sanity
sounds Lake anxiety is overwhelming for you at this time. Have you ever been able to speak with counselor about this? People need support when going through this.counselor can help you and give you ideas on how to manage this. It’s difficult to go through alone believe me I’ve been there. And I’m still there at times. But it does really help to vent to someone in person who can help and support you! Don’t try to go it alone anymore because there’s lots of resources out there starting with a counselor or therapist. Take care of yourself and never never give up hope. you are not alone in this. You have to be a fighter for yourself. 
My symptoms are way different than most people I have spoke with though when having anxiety. Most people you speak to with anxiety/panic attacks complain of chest pains, racing heart, feeling of choking mine everything feels cloudy/hazy surreal and then starts the panic inside usually around the abdomen area and then through my body and then the tightness around head and ears before it starts to fade. I leaves my pulse beating quicker for a few seconds after and then these waves come and go all day.
You are in the grip of ocd with health anxiety. I know because I’m in it just now as well. It’s so hard to snap out of. It’s not the first time in my life I’ve been in this cycle. I really sympathise with how you’re feeling, it can be a really lonely place to be as you feel like no one understands and that doctors must be missing something. But it can and does pass. The only thing is you really need to try and change your behaviour towards the thoughts when they happen to stop them taking over. To be honest the first time this happened to me, it took me exhausting all avenues of tests before it gradually sunk in that I was not ill, it was a long road. A subsequent episode ended up with anti depressants and honestly they changed my life. The first few weeks you can be up and down but they really take the edge off the compulsive thoughts, not just depressive ones and stopped my anxiety in its tracks. I have been on and off them a couple of times since then, my stupid fault really, forgetting my prescription and thinking I would manage. I am now about to go on them for the third time, I have come to realise that perhaps I just need to have them in my life permanently. To be honest I should never have stopped, I had no side effects and was on the lowest dose but you end up feeling really good and assume you can go without. I don’t know if you have ever considered them but they are an option, along with some counselling which can really help, just talking to someone, I find when you hear the thoughts they don’t seem half as scary as when you are going over them in your own head. You’re not alone, let the feelings come, try and let them pass but please speak to someone about your options as they can help so much.
Hi Gillian, Thank you for these words it is very helpful. Thing is it isnt my thoughts these feelings are completely real. For me everything feels cloudy/hazy surreal and then starts the panic inside usually around the abdomen area and then through my body and then the tightness around head and ears before it starts to fade. I leaves my pulse beating quicker for a few seconds after and then these waves come and go all day. I get deja vu a lot and random dreams or memories from ages ago pop in my head. This is all so real
i dont get chest pains either i get the same as you mate. lots of people get the same symptoms as us. lots of people get the same symptoms , lots get different symptoms.
Try some meditation to ease your mind.
There is an excellent free app called Plum Village
Peace
I know, it is real, very real. The mind is so powerful and I find it plays on my health fears and leaves me wondering how could this all be coming from my mind there must be something wrong with me. I am still in the grips of it just now trying to take every day at a time, sometimes I just want to scream help at the top of my voice when I feel the sensations starting. I know I said it before but you’re not alone. It’s reassuring that you’ve spoken to doctors and they don’t believe it’s anything serious but I know that doesn’t make you feel any better, sometimes it actually makes you feel worse. Would you consider going down the road of treatment for anxiety, like counselling or a low dose of anti depressant? I have tried both in the past separately, and together, when I had health anxiety about a brain tumour and honestly, they saved my life. I was in denial at first thinking no way this wont help because I’m physically ill but with time the feelings lessened, more time would pass when I felt ‘normal’ until I finally got over it. I have went though subsequent health anxiety episodes but after that first one I was never as bad as I could recognise myself going down what I call ‘the rabbit hole’ and either went back on my meds or managed to talk myself down before it escalated. Usually I need to nip it in the bud fairly quickly as once its escalates it usually requires some sort of treatment to get me back to normal. I’ve also suffered from ocd thoughts in the past, obsessing over things that didn’t actually happen. I think that ocd and health anxiety go hand in hand its just another face of the same illness. Sometimes it helps to take small wins everyday, like managing to get through your working day, visiting friends or family or having just a good day where the feelings weren’t as bad.
hi there
your symptoms sound just like mine
lots of tension in my head and ears which has given me the worst anxiety that i have a brain tumour
i get terrified when i wake up with shallow breathing but somedays it goes away im terrified of having another panic attack
Hi Jonathan,
I see you’re not doing too well still =/ I think u have a misconception about anxiety and the symptoms it can create. When you have physical symptoms from anxiety, it is a bodily response to stress. You stated below “Thing is it isn’t my thoughts these feelings are completely real.” But no ones physical anxiety symptoms are ‘in their thoughts’ - that’s why they are called PHYSICAL symptoms of anxiety.
When you are overly anxious, especially for a long time, your body is affected by this and goes into hypersensitive, stress mode. For example: Have you ever heard of stress or anxiety itch? It’s having generalized itching on your body bc you’re too stressed. Someone suffering this does not THINK they are itchy, they literally are itchy bc their body is so stressed out it is physically releasing histamines into the blood stream, which cause allergic symptoms like itching of the skin and even hives/rashes. The itching is stress induced but it is not in their thoughts, it’s physically happening.
This is the same concept with your symptoms. Your body is in super stress mode, and all out of whack basically, and that affects your major organs and body parts. I know it’s crazy to believe but you need to give your brain more credit bc it is EXTREMELY powerful. Sometimes in very good ways, sometimes not =/