Hi,
it felt like a breakthrough finding this forum, felt I was all alone in my suffering with my anxiety condition. The two symptoms which are currently bothering me the most are my constant feeling of burning heat all over my body and periodic itching of my skin all over. After reading up on this forum I think I know what I have- cholinergic urticaria (heat hives).

I've given up on western medicine to help me because for the past year I have seen many doctors and they did blood tests and nothing came up and they just said I had anxiety and didn't explain how my anxiety was causing my symptoms and weren't telling me how to get better.

Right now I am seeing a psychologist for cbt and relaxation/ hypnosis. I listen to a meditation tape everyday to help me relax and I do feel calmer. I also started seeing a naturopath and he gave me homeopathic medicine, "puls 40" to get rid of my symptoms. It's been a week and my heat and itching is still bothering me. I also try to go to the gym twice a week and walk everywhere.

I am very anxious, feel tightness in my chest alot of the time, when I wake up in the morning my whole body is stiff with worry, etc. I've been feeling terrible for the past year and i'm only 22, feel like i've lost a whole lot of time in my life feeling sick. I thought I had a serious infectious disease and kept going for std tests, even though I haven't had penetrative sex yet. I feel suicidal alot of the time cos I don't have any quality of life and don't want to live like this forever and don't know when i'll get any better.

I get really bad pms mood swings ,alot of anger to the point I want to smash someone, but i'm not capable of actually doing it.

I'm also single and that gets me down cos people say i'm really attractive, intelligent, outgoing, funny...So what is the problem? I've had 'encounters' with many guys but they were only interested in sex and when they found out I was a virgin they said they didn't want to be 'my first'.

I just want to get better...Is there anything else I should do???Please help!!!