Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 8 Location: cheltenham-uk
Is Anxiety Sadistic? Posted: 05-09-06 11:17am
Hello im chris, 25 from the uk. I have
suffered fairly strong anxiety, panic and
what some call hypochondria for six years
now, probably at least half of that in
full panic mode. I have an extreme fear
of my own death and have manifested many
nasty horrible things over the years,
lucky so far im still kicking :)
my question is related to anxiety
symptoms.
Im not looking for a diagnosis, but is it
normal for the anxiety symptoms to be in
the same area plaguing my paranoia? Could
anxiety be so sadistic. Eg: when I had
nausia for two months, and convinced
myself I had bowel cancer, when my anxiety
built I had chronic diariah, stomach pains
and gas, which my doctor told me were
mostly if not all caused by stress/anxiety
but because of the locality, just
magnified my anxiety.(that all cleared
up)
now at the moment I have a lump in my
throat about 2-3cm across, about three
inches above my adams apple slightly to
the left deep inside, with two hard but
small glands above, the deep lump feels
fixed in place and im self convinced I
have cancer as they have all been "up" for
over two months with no pain at all, in
the past week I have developed sore
throat, lump in the throat sensation and
an occasional croacky voice. (doc said
glands were from recent coldsore infection
on previos visit) now if these later
symptoms are all anxiety symptoms, as I
have read they can be, can your brain
localise stress in relation to your
thoughts or worrys ?
(sorry for the long post, talking helps me
sometimes :) )
kind regards
chris
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paul b
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Manchester,England
Posted: 05-09-06 11:39am
Hi chris lad,i can relate to the first
half of your post,as I also think the same
thoughts as you,eg fear of death,i also
think alot of morbid thoughts,and I cant
stop it,as for the throat thing,i suffer
from the tight throat sindrome like alot
of other folk on here,infact,i have got it
as I speak,it started this morning,it`ll
probebly last a couple of days and
hopefully fade away again,if your really
paranoid about your throat,you can always
go to your casualty department,they would
tell you within a couple of hours,that
will set your mind at rest..
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chris_989
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 8 Location: cheltenham-uk
Posted: 05-09-06 12:57pm
Hi paul, good to hear from you. Im
penciled in with the doc tommorow, hes a
pretty reliable guy and doesnt often fob
me off a some do, I will take his advice
untill the paranoia kicks in again :p
but your right about the casualty thing,
been there a lot in the past, hooked up to
heart monitors and all that jazz. I never
once got a lollypop though! I guess they
arn't healthy enough :(
having an ok day actually, better than
usual anyway, hope yours go well too!
Take it easy.
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Orion82698
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 61 Location: Maryland
Posted: 05-09-06 14:28pm
Chris,
I noticed that you said in my thread,
that you keep poking your lymph nodes.
Don't. I can tell you, mine are almost
gone just by not touching them. The
really way to tell if your lymph nodes are
swollen, is to look down, and roll them.
If they feel like they're small balls
moving around, they're swollen.
I know how you feel about thinking you're
sick with everything. Hang in there
bro...
I wish you the best of luck, and let us
know what the doc says tomorrow.
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mitch7654
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 170
Posted: 05-09-06 16:32pm
Actualy thats not true. Ive been able to
roll mine for 5 years and they are not
swollem there just there.
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chris_989
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 8 Location: cheltenham-uk
Posted: 05-10-06 08:48am
Well its been a funny day actually, hit
the docs at 10.30 am, throat is crappy,
lump and a little sore, but it actually
goes away when I eat and drink so im
fairly happy thats all stress with the
muscles known as cricopharyngeal spasms
(im a master at web research :p)
im always happy to be in the docs, its
been a month and I forgot how relaxed I
feel when I go in, unfortunatly on this
occasion it didnt last. I should have
started talking about my glands, instead I
thought it would eb wise to talk about the
anxiety... Got the medication
prescription again, thats all fine, but
when I tried to raise the topic of the
glands his brow raised and with a ten
second examination in which im not even
sure he felt the right area, he ushered me
out of the office as fast as possible
/sigh. Needless to say I felt a bit
dissapointed. But, he did shwo me, that
putting my tongue out moves a bone in the
jaw, and doing this I now notice that the
lump does actually move, it must have just
been pressed against the bone, not
attached to it. Things started looking
up! Now the glands just need to go down
:)
did soem shopping, got back and got a
call, I got a job! Only temporay but
after being unemployed for 5 months its
great, shame im so damn tense, time for
some serious relaxation tonight in
preperation!
Fingers crossed for no more symptoms to
arrise to screw me up more, I need this
work badly.
Thanks for listening, hope you all have a
great day.
Regards, chris
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xxzoe18xx
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Scotland
Posted: 05-24-06 18:18pm
Yes. When you create somone in your mind.
Your body will act it out like a nice
little play. Your mind can be very
powerful. Remeber it's just your anxiety
tricking you...You're not in any danger :)
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KingDobe
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 6
Posted: 05-29-06 16:06pm
Damn.. Im in exactly the same boat as you
chris mate.. I convince myself I have
cancer all the time. I read up on the
internet about different symptoms, and
what do ya know? Suddenly I develop or
notice that I have these symptoms.. Its
ranged from testicular cancer, male breast
cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, and
currently I find myslef worrying about
prostate cancer.. And im only 16!!
I want to tell the doc that oi worry all
the time but I cant find the words to tell
him.. What can I say?
'hey doc, I worry about everything'?
:roll: any hints on what to say to help
me? Thanks. And good luck! Youre not
alone man! :wink:
