Anxiety and Stress Forum - Can Stress Be Doing This??

chris_989 wrote:

the doc says its all a'ok, you have test after test done and all come back negative, you have symptoms that seem to come and go, but are generally consistent.

After a while, stress which is easily recognisable becomes like a daily ruitine, just thinking about something over and over generates anxiety, but your body is so used to it that it seems normal, in other words you are in a permanent state of anxiety without actually realising it.

Your breathing might seem ok but because you are so focused on your destructive thoughts, you dont notice that its actually faster, you hyperventilate and out of nowhere you are dizzy, muscles locking up and all hell breaks loose, and you think to yourself, but I was fine a minute ago! You wern't, you just didnt realise it.

The reason you feel better on holiday is because generaly speaking, you are actually forced to focus on things other than yourself, a new environment can be very stimulating to the senses. Your actually relaxing, really relaxing. Truth is, a lot of the time when you think you actually are, your not :p and a lot of people use the relax time to actually think even more about their problems.

I do know how incredibly hard it is to avoid those thoughts, iv spent six years in hypochondic hell, and still I repeat the same stupid things that I did years ago. Dont ever consider that stress cannot be the cause of a certain symptom, in the pass it has been responcible for all of these for me:
headaches, head tension
sore throats, feeling of throat blockage
chest tension, feeling like im havinga heart attack
gas, burping, stomach cramps, muscular tension
hot and cold sweats, weak limbs, hot hands/feet
lathargy, muscular spasms, bowel weakness
repetative urination, diarhia
and more:

probably far more than that. Stress weakens you, makes you more suseptible, small illneses last much longer than usual. Its one hell of a nasty circle, but the one thing I will say is this, if a doc prescribes medication, take it, I regret comming off mine last year. It can have side effects at first because they intervene with the chemicals in your brain, but that usually wears off inside a month.

Want to go at it naturally? : try this
eat a good breakfast, I alternate organic porridge with single egg ommlette. Have fruit juice in the morning every day, I drink green tea twice a day, breakfast and evening, with lemon once.

Avoid lots of pasta and breads, have half a sandwich and add more salad at lunch time, always have two pieces of fruit, usually one at brunch and one at lunch, change them around a lot. Eat tommato a lot, its a super foot :) I hate it raw so I have it in soup or I make my own sauces for pasta/bolognese. Try to home cook and avoid takeout/microwave, all those additives play hell with you.

Do not go crazy on suplements, your body will just reject them and you will see more side effects than results, one multi-vit with a good diet is plenty.

One thing not to forget, it takes time to recover from stress problems, months, even years if it has been ongoing. It takes the body 21 days to get into a ruitine, take one hour a day to really relax, I meditate, but some people do yoga, relaxing for an anxiety sufferer is not being alone in a quiet room! Like a quiet bath or slouched on a chair. You need to be distracted but relaxed.

A ruitine of good food, drink, relaxation, and sometimes medication with, if needed, behavioral therapy/support groups for at least one month will make a big difference, but it will not cure everyone, stick with it.

Anyway I have ranted long enough, im interested to know how those glands work out, I have glands up aswell, have had for three months, no pain and im worrying, but I prod and poke them daily aswell, cant help it!

Good luck!

wow....

Thanks for the post man!!!

Yeah, I still haven't ruled stress out.

I just got back from my doctors office. She's putting me on an albuteral inhaler for the next few days, to take before working out. She said, if that doesn't work, she's going to send me to a pulminary specialst (spelling?).

You're right. It's very hard for me to relax. Why? Because all I think about is how I need to get over this fatigue, so I can lose this weight I gained and get back to working out. I'm stressed out because it was my life, and my goal to have some nice lean muscle or the summer, but now... That's shot.

My neck hurts (stiff) almost every day, and my lats (muscles) are sore.

I was eating a very healthy diet, but slipped 2 months ago, and have gained some good weight from it. I'm back on my diet now, I just want this caca gone!