Yeah! Many times I tend to feel sort of stiff when I first wake up... Many times my knees are achey when I wake up, that's when my tingling sensations tend to be at their worse... Oh and my jaw normally is out of place and I have to play around with it for a bit to get it to pop back into place! Honestly sometimes I just try to lay in bed as long as possible to avoid getting up and potentially feeling those sensations!
Today my symptoms seemed much better compared to yesterday, but today I was a lot more busy than I was prior. I was mindful of the headaches I was getting and any tingling I felt, but I think keeping myself occupied helped keep my mind off a lot of it.
Another question: do you ever just feel "spacey"? For some reason whenever I am in my local grocery store or in a large/busy and crowded place, I seem to just space out! Everything around me seems out of wack in a way, but then when I get out of that environment, it improves greatly! Again, this has only started in the past month, so I am guessing this is anxiety related?
sorry for the late reply (started exams this week...). Yeah I totally do, 'spacey', like I'm not really there. I also have that slight feeling of dread, like I'm about to drop dead at any moment bit morbid really, considering I should be out enjoying myself!
One of my symptoms is my teeth feeling loose. Been getting it on/off for about three or four months. Freaked out massively cos I know it can be the sign of sth. serious, but I went to the dentist and he couldn't find anything wrong...do you get this at all?
Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy, like it's just me going through all this. I usually try to block it out by working.
That's how I can be sometimes! I will be doing relatively okay, moving on with my life, just ignoring symptoms as best as I can, I'll be thinking rationally, and then I can just have moments all of a sudden where I just want to scream and freak out because "what if it's something really bad?"
I have had feelings like that before! Not recently since I have been feeling anxious/ill/whatever it is, but there have been times where it seemed like my teeth have felt loose! Like maybe for a day or so, and then the next day it will feel normal again. Those sensations have freaked me out before, but then it goes away!
I feel crazy too sometimes! No one around me thinks anything I am feeling is serious and it frustrates me! Like yesterday morning my mom woke me up, and when I woke up, I felt the tingling in my toes and in my right arm, and when I told her, she did not seem concerned at all! I also have told her about the headaches, the chills I get, and nothing seems to rattle her! So then it makes me think "if no one else cares about it, should I? Is it really not a big deal?" Then whenever I scroll down my timeline on Facebook, or I see news stories about terrible diseases, I just have to fly past it because I can not bear to hear about those things anymore without making me feel scared!
My mom and grandma think I am at a "crossroads" right now, which I think is true in parts. Lately I have not been entirely sure on what I want to do with my life. I am at school right now to pursue a career in nursing, but I do not really know if that's what I want to do anymore. They think that that is what's making me feel these things, but I do not know! these sensations and feelings are just so real, I do not know if it's something physically, mentally, or maybe both??
when you say 'school', do you mean University? (system's different over here). Coming up to the end of my bachelors, I'll say that this time of study is full of self-doubt and mind changes. I'm studying for a Degree in Music, and there are times when I've absolutely hated it and wanted to quit...it's cos of the pressure they put on you! Final year is the worst, I was absolutely fine before last September!
It's probs a bit of both, my dad described it as slight hormonal imbalance. Basically, your mind 'dictates' certain feelings to your body, which then reacts accordingly. So in a way, it is physical, but caused by a mental reason. (if that makes sense?)
Yeah I seem to be getting loads of disease-related stuff on Facebook too! It's really frustrating, so I try to ignore them as much as possible. My mum is the same as yours, nothing ever seems to bother her...maybe it's to do with age and maturity?
Yes! I mean University when I say school or college! And yes! College (or Uni, haha) can be a time of so much doubt! I can't imagine what you must be feeling, as I have only completed one year of it so far! The money really does make it hard! At my university, one little course costs $2400! If I decide to change majors, I will lose so much class credit and effort for all the nursing type classes I've taken already! I actually really want to be a Flight Attendant! Really the only thing I am truly passionate about is travel, aircraft, cultures, etc! That does not require any sort of university or college, but I still need to have a major in something, you know? I won't feel right going through life without having a college degree!
And that does make sense! The mind really is a powerful thing! My mom keeps trying to tell me that my hormones could be a bit out of wack, and she could be right! She says that when she was around 20 her hormones changed a lot, so she thinks it could be the same for me!
Yes! All the time! Facebook, the TV, stories about disease is everywhere! A mistake I made this past semester for an English class is working on a project about assisted suicide and terminally ill people. It was a project that lasted half of the semester, and at the time, I thought it was a good topic! By the end though, not so much! My family thinks that contributed to some of the worry and anxiety I have been feeling. I was having to research and think about those topics a lot! I also have been taking Anatomy & Physiology classes, and I think knowing a lot more on how the body works and what is normal and what isn't normal has not been helpful to my cause. It's one of those situations where "ignorance is bliss!'" And maybe so! I guess our moms definitely have more experience with the world and know their children and when something is or isn't wrong?
Does your skin break out? I have never struggled with terrible acne, but I have noticed recently that my skin has been breaking out a lot more than usual. I sometimes get a bit of acne around my period, but what I have had lately can't be contributed to that. I guess that is another thing pointing to the stress/hormones?
you are so right about 'ignorance is bliss'; except that I found out how the body works through Dr. Google! Wish I had Anatomy classes, might help me stop worrying! (my dad says he used to worry a lot too, and that it stopped when he became a doctor...). The hard thing for me is to trust the docs; they do know what they are doing, but there is always that moment of doubt at the back of the mind when you wonder if they've missed something. It's awful when I worry, cos then when I come down with sth. I have no idea if it's real or made up...
And yes, I get loads of acne too, though I have suffered from this as a teenager so I'm used to it. It seems to have developed on my back and shoulders, face is not too bad, though.
And wow, being a Flight Attendant sounds so adventurous; and nursing is a really good career too...you would be able to look after sick people on planes? (lol - have suffered with that too in the past!)
Yes! That's what I have sort of been thinking to.. "What if they miss something?" I have to wait all the way until the 22nd to speak with a doctor on what I have been feeling, and I am so nervous that they will tell me they think it is something really bad! I am anxious to hurry up and just get it over with, but at the same time I do not want to go in fear of what they may tell me! My doctor is very young, so I get worried sometimes that she will tell me the wrong thing! However, I know that she has way more knowledge than me (and Dr. Google, haha) and that I just need to trust her. I really am so nervous already for the 22nd... I was initially going in on the 8th, but I really wanted my mom to go with me, and she couldn't get off work until the 22nd... When she told me I needed to reschedule, I started crying right there because I had gotten myself prepared for what they may tell me and she was like "You are fine! They will do nothing to you that is going to hurt or harm you because there is nothing wrong with you!" It sometimes certainly feels like something is wrong though...
I get acne on my back and shoulders too! When I was younger, that was definitely my problem area! In recent years it has cleared up a ton, but I have noticed lately since all of this worry and stress hit, it's starting to come back there, and my face as well!
Haha I certainly hope I could help anyone who is sick while flying! I think that could be useful as many people get panicky or get airsickness! Sometimes you hear about those stories where babies are born on planes or people start having a heart attack whilst flying, lol, I would be ready!
Currently I am just laying in bed, not wanting to get up because that's when I normally feel my symtoms at their worst. So I am just laying here as long as I can, my jaw is super stiff and stuck, I can already feel my feet and hands wanting to get tingly, and my back just feels so stiff! Lovely way to get the day started! lol
Lol I am stuck in my room revising (it's late afternoon over here). Yeah I'm really scared they're going to misdiagnose me...but then again my dad explained that sometimes you have to trust it for a bit and time will tell...
Like on Friday I developed an awful thrush infection and went to the doc's who found a small hard lump. She said it was a cyst, but I'm still really nervous! Anyway, she told me to monitor it and to come back if it grew, so I'm slightly reassured...
Lol they should genuinely have nurses on planes, I fly quite often and see loads of people having fits and the air hostesses are completely bewildered... my dad once had to administer first aid to someone who'd fainted (out of fear)!
Yeah, it's one of those things that you just have to trust. Doctors go to school for an eternity, so it is very obvious that they have the knowledge and skills required to diagnose people! I keep trying to attribute a bunch of my symtoms to TMJ/anxiety, but I will just be ready to get this doctors appointment over with!
Yeah, that is a bit more reassuring! When a doctor just says to watch it, that normally can be a good sign that it is not anything too serious!
Haha and I think they should too! People get so nervous when flying! When I was flying home from London this past summer, this little girl in front of me kept getting so air sick! I felt so bad for her and her dad who was trying to help her! That would of been a good time to have had someone help them out!
yeah I'm trying to link all my symptoms to anxiety, to stop myself from worrying so much. The good news is that I'll be able to see an ENT over summer to get my tinnitus checked out, cos it's been six months and shows no signs of improving had hearing tests, which came back normal, so it's probably nothing serious.
anyway, hopefully it will all get back to normal after Uni ends! ( hope it does for you!)
oh no that's so awful! I know that feeling, I've done that with cancer, and other things. I've realised two things though: 1) that most things written on the net are complete bulls**t (to a certain extent), and 2) the more you read, the more scared you get!
Yes, I have! It has not been a main symptom of mine, but here and there I have experienced sensations of that! I think that is a very common anxiety symptom! It can be really scary
Yes, sometimes I can be rational and link things to anxiety, but then other times (like today honestly) I have just been a complete basketcase! It is so hard sometimes!
I am sure that they will find nothing serious with your tinnitus! I think some people just tend to have it naturally, and maybe it is TMJ you are experiencing! The misaligned jaw may be messing around with your inner ear! Anxiety and TMJ can present some very frightening symptoms from what I have read about!
I hope it will get better for you when you complete Uni! Once you get that done and you can have some time to relax, maybe It will improve! I am on Day 5 of my summer break, and it has not gotten better (but I think it could be because I am bored doing nothing in the day and I think so much about how I feel) but hopefully once my family is on summer break too, it will be better! I notice that on weekends who everyone is around that I seem to be a bit better than I do during the week.
bit morbid really, considering I should be out enjoying myself!
