Hey guys.. I just need to talk about my symptoms this past month.
I wake up, I have head pressure(blood shot eyes). Uncomfortable and unease feeling of my head(like it's fatigued) is the feeling that makes it the worst. My head feels clogged and I espcially feel it in the surrounding portion of my back eyes, ears and head. I don't ever feel normal. There might be a relief of head fatigue from time to time, but my head has never felt the same. The only thing that makes me feel somewhat normal is if I lay down. I want this to be over, but I do NOT want to turn to medication. I want tat to be my last option. Anybody else dealing with this or already got through this? I really want this to be over so I can go back to enjoying my life like I used to. It’s days like these that make me regret taking my life for granted back when I had one.
I also get the sensation in my nose like it’s bleeding but no blood comes out. I keep thinking my brain is spilling fluid or I’m on the edge of having a brain aneurism...
Thank you for reading, please help me!
Hi Alex,
Is there something that has potentially triggered this? These things don't usually come on out of the blue, there is nearly always a reason, it can even be something you may not have realised bothered you but deep down it has. Are you stressed?
When I started suffering with Health Anxiety triggered by a small lump in my leg (turned out to be a cyst) I subconsciously awoke my fear of cancer and dying. This had a dramatic knock-on affect with my health which started with sleep depravation and I developed health anxiety as a result. It was the worst time of my life and the worst part of it was... you guessed it... brain fog, head tension, fatigue. My head felt heavy all of the time I almost felt drunk and so spaced out. On my worst days it was like I was looking at things through a box with a hatch cut into it and I couldn't escape it. I felt like I was sleeping for days at a time and I was waking up exhausted and I'd only been asleep for or a couple of hours. It turns out that I wasn't reaching my final stage of sleep because I was so stressed and stress as one hell of an effect on the body.
Things that helped me were crying, lots of it. Sometimes we all need a damn good cry and this releases tension and ejects toxins from your body.
Talking to your closest friend or family member/partner. This may lead to the above and then it's a bonus! You can't keep this all to yourself because it just builds and builds and your head gets heavier and more 'clouded'.
Activities that keep you distracted and busy to take your mind off it, mainly physical.
Indulging in computer games and escaping from reality once in a while also doesn't hurt
If you want to chat to me and give me a little more info on your symptoms and possible causes, I'm more than happy to talk.
Good luck!
JT
Hi Alex,
My anxiety started due to stress mainly about my health and it began with symptoms similar to yours, I had a constant headache, my head felt tight and I had throbbing pain, I only felt okay when I was lying down, and I would wake up with pins and needles in my arms and legs during the night, I wasn’t sleeping well either. What followed after was a racing mind, heart palpitations, and what felt like brain fog before I fell apart with severe anxiety and also depression thrown in. I didn’t want to go on medication either to start with. I tried to make myself better without it but I think I was past that point. I would say if you don’t want to go on medication make sure you eat well, drink lots of water, exercise, meditate and spend time with your friends and family and doing things you enjoy to relax. But please take care of yourself and don’t let it get to a point where you feel worse
Wow, that was some adivce you gave me. I really appreciate you taking your time and helping me out. Why triggered mine was a bad flight experience and stress about graduating. I am in 11th grade and I expected my grades to look a certain way towards the end but these symptoms don’t let me focus! I’ve been so out of it recently and I feel so weird. I constantly fear that I’m going to have a brain aneurysm, Brain tumor, brain bleeding, a blood clot in my head, a stroke, a twisted blood vessel. My head symptoms started after my aunt had a mini stroke and my cousins friend was in the hospital from a twisted blood vessel in her head and it bursted when she was angry. I fear this will happen to me and I feel all these thing ALL THE TIME.