Physical anxiety symptoms, sounds familiar to anyone?

Mental health
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So 2017 has been a pretty rough year for me. It started with not feeling so wel and little panic attacks in the beginning of 2017. So went to my GP and blood test was all good.

Around april I got blurry vision, dizziness, very sensitive to light and sounds when walking on the streets. From around that moment I experience permanent brain fog (my brain feels dead), on and of tingling/numb feeling in my face, fatigue, sensitive to light, notice floaters when looking in a bright sky and intolerant to alcohol.

Around july I got tension/pain in both calves and that's been 24/7 so far. So I went back to my GP and they did a MRI that was also good.

With pain and effort I finished my bachelor thesis, although symptoms became more and more. In the holidays I was hoping to recover cause I thought I had something like a burn out. Tried to start with my masters, but with the symptoms still there that's impossible. I can't handle all the information and my brain feels slow. So I decided to take a break, this was around oktober.

Last week I tried working for 8 hours. After a few hours I got the feeling at the right side of my face, enormous brain fog (living like a robot in this case) and tunnel vision.

So my life is pretty much a mess, I used to work long hours before, and now I'm at home cause I can't work. I used to workout 5-6 times a week for 1.5 hours, now I don't have the energy to workout for half an hour and all my muscles are painful and weak. From having a pretty good career already to nothing.

In a summary my symptoms are:

- 24/7 brain fog

- little panic attack one a week

- numb/tense face (especially when doing things, not in rest)

- 24/7 tense/painfull calves 

- 24/7 increased sensitivity to light and sound

- can't handle busy places or meetings

- increased floaters

- little bit visual snow at bright surfaces

- intollerant to stress and work

- intollerant to working out

- fatigue, always tired

I think there's a possibility I developed an anxiety disorder. Are those common symptoms? And do you have tips on how to manage this. I'm not having anxiety like feeling scared, but I've read something that in some cases anxiety expresses in physical symptoms. The biggest problem is the brain fog, I've been tested at highly intelligent years ago and now my brain is dead, like my IQ dropped 30 points. This is also something I worry about now.

Sorry if my English isn't always proper, it's not my native.

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Berendje

You can get drops from a chemist from the chemist for your eye floaters, they will increase the moisture in the eye and thin out the tear ducts

Your other problem seem to be caused by Anxiety and given that it may be a good idea to try Mindfulness a relaxation Technique that can divert your fears and anxiety. Breathing Exercises can also help your mood etc. Both technique can be found on site or Internet.

You will also benefit from a course of CBT, will give you ways of addressing your fears and Anxiety, remember it will need to be yourself eventually that will find that positive attitude to move on.

Remember as we get older in the first instance you IQ remains constant, only in later life do we drop a few marbles and make a few blunders

BOB

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I have been experiencing a lot of the same stuff you have since about June of 2017. Especially the visual stuff you're mentioning. Tons of floaters a lot of blurry vision spotty vision and like cloudiness in fogginess. I've seen an opthalmologist also a neurologist and recently saw a neuro ophthalmologist and nothing is abnormal in any test that have been done including MRI EEG spinal tap over a dozen different eye scans and test. My doctor is now saying it's most likely anxiety causing these problems but I am extremely doubtful about that even though everything looks normal on all the testing. Coincidentally I have just discovered I have been anemic for the past 8 months and it was somehow overlooked by my doctor and I am now just starting a work up for it. the neuro opthalmologist I've seen has told me that she believes whatever is causing the anemia is most likely causing these vision problems that I've been having. I have been tested for bleeding since my iron levels are pretty low but there's no bleeding anywhere that they can see. anxiety can definitely do a lot to you but I would search for other answers before you put it on anxiety