Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Jacksonville, FL, US
Help! Do I Have Anxiety? Posted: 03-09-07 20:57pm
I am 16 years old and yesterday when i was
in school watching a movie I suddenly felt
this wierd feeling throughout my body and
i felt light headed and thought i was
going to faint and got extremely scared
and my heart started to pound really fast.
i thought i was going to die. After i
calmed down a little bit i started to feel
wierd again so i went to my school nurse
and she noticed that my heart rate was
high so she called my mother to pick me up
and she took me to the emergency room. I
got a blood test, an EKG, an X-ray, and a
urine sample neither which tested positive
for anything. The doctor then told me she
thinks that i have anxiety. But i never
really get stressed out about anything.
What is wrong with me?
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futurelovers
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 101
Posted: 03-10-07 06:24am
What you described (fast heart beat, light
headed, weird feeling throughout the body,
about to faint, feeling that you're about
to die) are ALL symptoms of an
anxiety/panic disorder.
You may not realize that you are stressed
out but you probably are. Nothing is wrong
with you - you are just stressed out in
some way. It can be anything... you need
to sit down and try to figure out what
your 'stressors' are. Are you handling
every situation that comes your way just
fine? Or do you have some problems? How is
your social life? Do you go out often or
do you stay in? If you stay in, then you
need to start going out and breathing
fresh air and walking a lot. You need to
also be very social.
If you find that you DO have an anxiety
problem, then post again and we'll try to
suggest how you can calm your anxiety
down. Please don't read too much into
anxiety and panic disorders because
reading about them could actually make
your symptoms worse if you are suffering
from those disorders.
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Stan
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Posted: 03-10-07 10:57am
Always check any possibility of physical
illness. One of the most common causes of
a reaction like this, especially in
someone around your age up to 18, are
blood sugar issues. If there is a history
of diabetes in either side of your family,
chances are you could be developing some
sort of a problem and this is the first
warning sign of it. Regardless of what
people say, you know when you're stressed
because you can feel it, your body just
doesn't suddenly do something like that
because you're stressed. Suddenly
reactions like that where you're sure you
weren't stressed out or anything are
physical, something is going on. Has this
ever happened before? The light headed
feeling is a dead give away that likely
you are starting to get a blood sugar
problem. Catch it now and be sure if you
have it or not and you can easily correct
it. Do you have any other symptoms
through the day? Sleepiness that seems
odd, odd fainting spells, confusion,
anything? When I was your age I had the
same thing happen to me, only to
find out years later, and after getting a
horde of symptoms you don't want to
experience, that it was simply a blood
sugar problem easily corrected with the
proper diet.
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ocdengineer
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 48 Location: SA, TX
Hypoglycemia Posted: 03-10-07 11:12am
I agree with Stan to check out the
physical before the emotional. If you
have never had an anxiety attack before
then you may have just not eaten enough
that day. Every person will have symptoms
like that if they don't eat enough of the
right kind of foods. Try eating many
small meals a day and nibble on things
periodically through the day. Avoid
sweets and caffeine! Both are problematic
for hypoglycemics. If you eat well and
still have these feelings then you need to
consider some cognitive behavioral
therapy. I would avoid any kind of
medication until you are a little older,
maybe in your twenties.
