So lately I've been having really bad anxiety. I can't eat I barely sleep at night all because I keep thinking about my breathing. Which gets worse every time I think about it. All my life I've had a deviated septum and mostly used my mouth to breath all my life and now I can't take deep breaths and it worrys me. Every now and then I wake up in the middle of the night and I have dry heaves of throwing up and it's getting bad. I keep telling myself to calm down but I just simply can't. I'm on medicine for my anxiety but feel like it doesn't help. Anybody have recommendations
That was one of my first hypochondriac episodes - the feeling that I couldn't get enough air.
I was about 8.
My poor mom used to "help" me in that we would both take a big breath at the same time - then exhale. If mine could match hers in duration I would be temporarily satisfied. Temporarily.
Did you see or hear anything recently involving someone who couldn't breathe or had difficulty getting their breath? My fear back when I was 8 was seeing kids in iron lungs from having polio.
Hey thanks for replying, umm no I never noticed anything like that, I just notice my own breathing and stuff. How did you get over it if you don't mind me asking.
I thought you said that you felt you weren't able to breathe properly, i.e. take a deep breath. Ha anything else happened in your life to raise your anxiety level? I always find I have a trigger that sets me off be it something I head on tv, or happened to a friend of mine or an article I read.
About the dry heaves....that's a new one on me. Have you googled that they can be caused by anxiety? Its very powerful in terms of its affect on the mind.
I had an inflamed bladder a few years ago and convinced myself I had cancer. I wouldn't go to the doctor and I lost almost 20 lbs just worrying day and night.
The only way I get over an "attack' of health anxiety is to go to the doctor and get reassurance or some other big freaking deal/problem comes up and makes me forget about the original problem.
So I have turned into a hypochondriac and I would look stuff up if I started feeling bad so I guess that was the start of my panic attack and last summer my girlfriend took me to a theme park to ride a roller coaster for the first time when that happened my anxiety kicked in overdrive after that