Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Kingston NY
Someone Tell Me I'm Not the Only One... Posted: 12-11-06 22:27pm
Hi all.
I am a 23 year old women. I have been
just told this year by many different doc.
That I have anxiety. I feel in a way
that there right. I worry about
everything , all day long and can't
stop!!!!!!! I shake in my hands and even
in my legs from time to time and my palms
get sweaty and such. I have headaches all
the time and just this year i've had
cronic sinus infections. I have aches and
pains I can't explain and sometime my head
even feel numb or just floating there. I
read on the internet atleast 4 to 5 hours
a day on research because i'm positive I
have everything I see or hear about on the
tv or in life. This as taken over my life
and I was given paxel to take the worries
away and I even have anxiety about taking
that !!!!!!!!! Oh man when does this stop
? I take my tempature atleast 15 times
and day and I even take my bp as much. I
have one at my house........ I have
constant worries that somethign bad is
always gonna happen and my body is taken a
toll and I always feel not right!!! None
to less i'm always dizzy and it makes me
have more anxiety .... I'm young and i've
had heart scans to cat scans to checking
for cancer to anything you can think of
..... I have atleast 50,000 in hospital
bills just from this year alone. I am
always thinking I have to go to the
emergency room for something. Am I alone
here ?????????? How does it just start
..... I've never been so "weird" until
this year...... Any advice for me
??????????? Thanks for listening...
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Chrono114
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 11
Posted: 12-11-06 23:44pm
Hi jannibaby, I was just checking this
forum to see if anyone responded to my
fitness thread and figured I would take a
peek inside the anxiety forums which I
used to be very familiar with. To answer
you right off the bat, you're definitely
not alone. I'm 21 years old and I dealt
with what you have now from when I was
about 16-19. I felt like I was living in
a dream all day long and nothing would
ever make me feel right again. I worried
non-stopped about illness and disease.
At 18 I was worried that I had aids and I
was still a virgin and never did any type
of intravenious drug or anything. The
best thing I can tell you is that it will
stop. . Trust me. People always told
me "i know how you feel." and I just
thought to myself "you have no idea how I
feel, you may have had something like
this but this is soo much worse." but I
have to tell you, I really really do know
how you feel. It's a scary thing when
your own brain is your biggest fear.
Shortly after I started seeing a
psychologist twice a week I began to see
small progress over the course of about 6
months. Now i'm more or less back to
normal with the occassional bad day, but
it's nothing like it was before. And I
refused to take drugs for it so don't
think you need them because you don't.
They may relax you but don't rely on them.
If you have any questions or anything
you can pm me anytime.
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 12-12-06 01:21am
Jannibaby.
I have all your symptoms and more. It
will get better, but it may get worse too.
Have faith and the first step to
recovery is recognising that you have
anxiety. You have had all the tests and
you are a fit and health. I have bad
days and I have great days (which I thank
god for) and I try each and every day to
find ways of dealing with my symptoms. I
am alot better now then I was a year ago
and I think time helps. I am always
looking into therapies, herbal remedies
and books and things to help me.
Take care and be sure to keep intouch.
This board has helped my heaps
chrono114 - how did you get yourself
better to the point where you are leading
a normal life?
