I found a site that tells pretty much alll
the symptoms u get from worrying or panic
attacks. Hopfully this will relive some
of your worrys.
Here are some of the many symptoms
associated with anxiety disorder (because
each person has a unique chemical make up,
the symptoms and their intensity will vary
from person to person):
body
burning sensations throughout the body
chronic fatigue
electric shock feeling
excess of energy, you feel you can’t
relax.
Feel like you are going to pass out or
faint
feeling cold or chilled
hyperactivity, excess energy
increased or decreased sex drive
muscle twitching
no energy, feeling lethargic, tired
numbness or tingling in hands, feet, face,
head, or any other places on the body
persistent muscle tension, stiffness
sore or tight scalp or back of the neck
startle easily
sweating, uncontrollable profuse sweating
the floor feels like it is moving either
down or up for no reason
trembling or shaking
urgency to urinate, frequent urination,
sudden urge to go to the washroom
warm spells
weak legs, arms, or muscles
chest
chest pain or discomfort
concern about the heart
feel like you have to force yourself to
breath
find it hard to breath, feeling smothered,
shortness of breath
frequent yawning to try and catch your
breath
heart – beating hard or too fast, rapid
heartbeat, palpitations
heart - irregular heart rhythms, flutters
or ‘skipped’ beats, tickle in the
chest that makes you cough
emotions
dramatic mood swings
emotional blunting
emotions feel wrong
frequently feel like crying for no reason
fears
a heightened fear of what people think of
you
afraid of being trapped in a place with no
exits
constant feeling of being overwhelmed.
Fear of being in public
fear of dying
fear of losing control
fear of impending doom
fear of making mistakes or making a fool
of yourself to others
fear that you are losing your mind
fears about irrational things, objects,
circumstances, or situations
fears of going crazy, of dying, of
impending doom, of normal things, unusual
feelings and emotions, unusually
frightening thoughts or feelings
heightened self awareness, or
self-consciousness
need to find nearest washrooms before you
can feel comfortable
need to seat near exits
head
dizziness or light-headedness
frequent headaches, migraine headaches
feeling like there is a tight band around
your head, pressure, tightness
stiff head and neck
giddiness
shooting pains in the face
shooting pains in the scalp or head
when you close your eyes you feel like are
beginning to, or will, float upwards
sore jaw that feels like a tooth ache
hearing
frequent or intermittent reduced hearing
or deafness in one or both ears
low rumbling sounds
ringing in the ears, noises in the ears,
noises in the head
mind
desensitization, depersonalization
fear of going crazy
fear of losing control
fear of impending doom
feelings of unreality
frequent feeling of being overwhelmed, or
that there is just too much to handle or
do
having difficulty concentrating
obsession about sensations or getting
better
repetitive thinking or incessant ‘mind
chatter’
underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear
you often feel you are carrying the world
on your shoulders
mood
always feeling angry and lack of patience
depression
feeling down in the dumps
feeling like things are unreal or
dreamlike
frequently being on edge or 'grouchy'
frequently feel like crying for no
apparent reason
have no feelings about things you used to
underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear
you feel like you are under pressure all
the time
mouth/stomach
a ‘tinny’, ‘metallic’ or
‘ammonia’, or unusual smell or taste
choking
constant craving for sugar or sweets
constipation
diarrhea
difficulty swallowing
dry mouth
feeling like you can’t swallow properly
or that something will get caught in your
throat
feeling like your tongue is swollen
frequent upset stomach, bloating, gaseous
ibs
lack of appetite or taste
nausea or abdominal stress
the thought of eating makes you nauseous
tight throat, lump in throat
vomiting
sleep
difficulty falling or staying asleep
frequent bad, bizarre, or crazy dreams
hearing sounds in your head that jolt you
awake
insomnia, or waking up ill in the middle
of the night
jolting awake
waking up in a panic attack
you feel worse in the mornings
sight
distorted, foggy, or blurred vision
dry, watery or itchy eyes
eye tricks, seeing things our of the
corner of your eye that isn’t there,
stars, flashes
eyes sensitive to light
spots in the vision
flashing lights when eyes are closed
your depth perception feels wrong
touch
numbness
pain
tingling, pins and needles feelings
other symptoms are described as:
being like a hypercondriac, muscle
twinges, worry all the time, tingles,
gagging, tightness in the chest, tongue
twitches, shaky, breath lump, heart beat
problems, head tingles, itchy tingling in
arms and legs, and so many more.
In addition to these symptoms, you may
also find yourself worrying compulsively
about:
• having a heart attack
• having a serious undetected illness
• dying prematurely
• going insane or loosing your mind
• harming yourself or someone you love
uncontrollably
• being embarrassed or making a fool out
or yourself
• losing control
• fainting in public
• not breathing properly
• choking or suffocating
• being alone
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Hypochondriac1028
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio
Posted: 03-27-05 13:18pm
Oh caca! That aheppend to me during my
first few days of getting panic attacks.
I was in bed because I was afraid to leave
my room and I felt real weird again and I
got a pain in my head I forget were it was
and then I felt like a liqoud running down
my skull
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Hypochondriac1028
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio
Posted: 03-28-05 13:39pm
Sorry man, didnt know the symtpoms would
bother you. They make me feel better when
I read them and im in a panic figured it
might help others to
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Bearo
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 2 Location: London, UK
New to the Site Posted: 03-29-05 08:15am
Hi i'm new to the site but joined so I
could thank you for posting this (and the
previous list of symptoms) - this has been
a great help for me especially today
sitting freaking out at work.
It's nice to read the list, it helps
confirm that this really is anxiety and
not some strange disease :)
i think it was the hand itchy one that
made me feel better, i've not seen it
mentioned anywhere else and when i'm
feeling anxious my hands and fingers
itch.
My new thing that's bothering me the past
few days is a strange throbbing in m lower
back :roll:
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Hypochondriac1028
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio
Hypochondriacs! Posted: 03-29-05 20:20pm
Lol im the same way man. Every little
thing I feel I think im dying from it.
Reading the symptoms is the biggest relief
ive ever found so far so I jus posted it
up in case it would help someone else.
Its amazing how much stuff anxiety can
make u feel but were not gonna die from it
no matter hpw bad it gets lol
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anxqueen
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 24 Location: milwaukee wi
Did Anyone Ever Posted: 04-20-05 22:11pm
Hi i'm new and exceted I found others to
talk to.
Has anyone ever woke up from a nap
suddenly with your heart beating so hard
you could see your shirt move and hear it
in your ear. Every breath I took shook
from my heart beating so hard, and my
whole body felt tight even my jaw. It
took almost 10 minutes to ware off. Is
this normal?
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angelfaced60
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Dartmouth NS
Wow Posted: 05-14-05 23:13pm
I've been suffering with crazy symtoms for
almsot 2 years now...Horrible bad anxiety
attacks, and a bunch of other symptoms
that I never thought were connected to
anxiety, just because of the fact that
they would occure when an anxiety "attack"
wasn't present. I've had pretty much
chronic diarreah for a year...Its kind of
stopped now thank god!...But also things
like headaches, neck aches, neck and
shoulder stiffness, aches and pains all
over, nausia, sore throat on and off, and
insane, horrible anxiety attacks...Plus
every other symptom mentioned above...Its
been a very stressful year...And I now
have a really really bad case of
hypochondriasis...My big fear is death,
and being afraid that i'm dying of
something...Especially hiv...Think my fear
of that is when all these other symptoms
started happening...The mind is a very
powerful thing, and even more powerful
when you lose control of it...Anyways i'm
still battleing this...Being afraid of
getting tested for hiv...And hoping to god
that all the symtoms i'm having is caused
my an anxiety disorder and not something
thats gonna kill me....
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Hypochondriac1028
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio
Posted: 07-10-05 11:42am
........
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Jamesab
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 101 Location: UK
Posted: 07-10-05 14:45pm
Hi, I wanna thankyou for starting this
topic - but one thing u haven't mensioned
above is headaches, man they are really
horrible things, and I have them everyday,
worse in the morning and have done for 5
months now, cat scan blood tests, normal,
I am still soo convinced that I have a
brain tumour or an aneurysm or at least a
blood clot. I can feel my pulse beating
so hard in my head, and every time it
does, it just feels like my head pumps up,
filling with blood, man its
hooooooooorrible.
James
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Hypochondriac1028
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio
Posted: 07-10-05 23:18pm
Can hypochondriasis last a lifetime?
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JohnnyB25
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA
Posted: 07-11-05 03:34am
Hi, over the last few years I had many of
these symptoms including moderate fever
caused by depression and anxiety.
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jlb23
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Brisbane
Posted: 07-14-05 23:54pm
Sad isnt it.But I still believe the cure
it your thoughts and your ability to keep
moving even if you really dont want
to.Gotta get out and live life.Feel the
fear and do it anyway.
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Muskyheart
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 1
Thank You Posted: 08-06-05 16:29pm
I was told by my doctor I was having panic
attacks and he medicated me but it made me
nervous, so I went to a psychologist
thinking I was diagnosed with the wrong
thing. Thhe psychologist told me I had
generalized anxiety. That made sense to
me, but I was assured there would be no
more attacks. Today I was just walking
through the apartment and boom, my mouth
goes dry, can't breathe, and then how some
of you described it; the upper part of my
back and head was on fire which lead to
tingles in my head and then a rush of
fluid. Once I slowly breathing it
started slowly going away. I never felt
the loss of breath and head tingles. The
ones I had a while back ago were tingles
through my left arm and fast heart beat.
I ran in here looking for answers. God,
don't go to web md. Talk about insomnia.
The point is I wanted to thank you for
putting the symptoms up. It's good to
know it wasn't a stroke. Now I don't
know what I have. I better go worry
about that now. Funny this all started
with a lump in my throat.
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Lisamarie0013
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 1 Location: USA
Thank You Posted: 11-29-06 12:36pm
Thank you very much for some affirmation
of the symptoms of stress & anxiety.
I know it is a relief to many anxiety
sufferers just to know that they are not
alone & others are going through the
same thing. To an extent just talking
about it (even on the internet) relieves
alot of stress.
I myself have suffered for 10 or 15 years
(probably always) with anxiety to one
degree or another and one thing I have
found is the more you educate yourself
with anxiety symptoms & once you
realize it is common & will not kill
you or you will not go crazy, you will
simply get all worked up, & eventually
it will pass, you can, perhaps learn to
control or at least more quickly dismiss
the panic. It's kinda like being afraid
of a monster under the bed, it can keep
you hostage for a long time, unless you
lift the bed & see.....There is
nothing. Anxiety to me is alot the same
(when i'm thinking rationally) recognize
that getting all stressed is ok, but lets
try not to give it more power to run our
days than it deserves. Recognize that
you are stressed, the symptoms will pass
& move on to other things. The
faster you concentrate on something else,
waala, the anxiety subsides. I don't
mean to suggest I have this down packed,
just trying to help. I still work on
controling my worry, I find myself with
any health issue, anticipating the worst
possible outcome, fortunately so far, that
hasn't happened, but my frustration is the
days, days, I have spent unhappy &
with a knot in my stomach, anticipateing
some awful test results or doctors
appointment, only to find out it was in
vain. I think it is a shame & very
badly channeled energy of most probably,
very smart, active brains. I'd like to
think that with every bad there is good,
& maybe we with such active brains,
imaginations, whatever you may believe,
that there is a good side & in another
part of our lives, we are as energetic
& dynamic at doing some good as we are
at being self destructive & worrying.
Good luck to all living with a level of
anxiety uncomfortable in their lives,
don't feel alone, be strong & relax.
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rainfallsup
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 9 Location: LaKe CiTy
Posted: 12-12-06 15:08pm
Just wondering if constant butterflies is
a a syptom of anxiety....Ive been having
them for the past 2 days...I used to be
uptight frequently but its gottn worse.0
its a constans "flutter" in my stomach.
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deedee22
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 25
Posted: 12-12-06 23:55pm
Hey rainfall.....
Thats strange you ask that because for the
past 2 day I have had butterflies in my
stomach all day and I couldnt figure out
why. I thought I was having some kind of
stomach problem!
Your not alone
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mikey v
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 41 Location: BC
Posted: 12-13-06 05:20am
Thanks for the post....I have been
suffering from gad for about a year now
and everytime I will read symtoms I will
feel better....But I can't stop thinking
about the universe and reality and how
everything is real, its very frightning
and it puts me in a scary state of
mind...I mean I keep telling myself not to
think of it but I can't and im afriad im
going to blow my mind if I keep thinking
like this..It really really sucks and I
get very depressed sometime when I think
of it...Is this normal to be thinking like
this with anxiety...I feel im on a
differn't page then everyone else with
anxiety...
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levitra-link-moveto
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta
Strees Posted: 07-03-07 23:07pm
Hi everybody I'm Mike. I sufer from stress
and over the last 3 years my strees
symptoms have been geting worse. I dont
know what to do. I get realy worried
sometimes. I worry about the posible facts
of havin somekind of desease. I want to
thank the person who posted all the
posible strees symptoms, I think it was
"hypocondriac" who posted them.
I just turned 25 years old and i had the
worst birthday ever. Sometimes I feel that
i have ben taking my health for granted
when I thing of the past years when i did
not have to deal with these symptoms. I
feel as if I would be superhuman if I
actual left these symptoms behind, because
even though I sufer like this from not
being able to relax, worrying all the
time, waking up in the midle of the night
gasping for air, going through all kinds
of unplesant sensations in my daily life,
I still exercise and try to do everything
and actualy i try to deal with stress.
Even though I have enormous amount of
stress i still controll it somehow, I
think I'm very strong. I think sometimes,
because I'm a relegious person and I
beleive in Allah strongly, I think that
maybe he is trying to put me through this
because he want's me to appreciate
everybreth I take, and I actualy do
everytime i catch a good breath. Im
constantly feeling breathles, I cant
breathe and it's like I have to gasp for
air to get a good breath and when I do
it's like I made up for those other times
when I could not get a good breath.
However it's true, I do get stressed allot
and that is very foolish of me. Everytime
when i get streesed or angry it's like i
have been excercising with my brain and i
get mentaly tired and i regret geting
angry.
Because of this strees and symptoms I cant
push my self physicaly and exercise the
way I want to and how much i want to.
Sometimes I look up in the sky and I
actuly try to speak to god and I tell him:
why are you doing this to me, what have I
done and I beg and beg him to heal me and
let me breathe once again. Everytime I get
a chance to make a with somehow whether
it's blowing the candles for my birthday,
seeing a falling star or come acros an
eylash in my face, I with I could breathe
again.
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DeMarie
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Australia
Posted: 07-04-07 08:15am
BigMan16
wrote:
Man... I have gotten
horrible in the past few days... My
anxiety is through the roof I worry about
every disease from hiv to ms!!!!!!!!!!
Every ache I think I have a disease.......
In fact I am breaking down as I read
this.... I am getting so depressed over
this
I am the same way atm.. I ahve been to the
drs so many times I cannot count.
I even did a HIV test myself.. once I get
the all clear from one thing, some other
symptom comes out and I ahve some new
disease.. its horrible.
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MishaLove
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 2
Posted: 01-05-08 01:07am
i couldnt believe how many of these
symptoms i had.. pretty much all of them
except a couple like the vomiting thing.
but i couldnt believe the symptom urgency
to urinate, frequent urination, sudden
urge to go to the washroom
cuz thats been happening ALOT and i had no
idea that it could be connected to
everything else that had been happening i
just feared that something was wrong in my
bladder or something else down there.
well...... i'm very glad you posted this
thank you very much.
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