anyone suffering physical anxiety symptoms

[Joey7]

I've been having more and more physical anxiety symptoms and they are really starting to scare me I suffer from health anxiety so these symptoms are making me terrified and taking over my every day life. Has anyone else suffered from physical anxiety symptoms and if so what type of symptoms have you had and how did you deal with them. I just don't see how these weird symptoms and sensations are from severe anxiety I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle sometimes. 

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[humbleb]

And when you meditate.. breath easy through your nose from your stomach.. it relaxes you more than breathing to just your chest. ( so your tummy rises up and down )

[graysky]

Thank you for your kind words and sharing your experiences.

I have experienced my symptoms when doing anything new, in stressful situations, and sometimes randomly.

If I can share this experience:
I had a relatively calm few hours at the start of my day, until in the middle of my shift, when I leaned to my left side, and turned my head a bit to the left, that I was aware of my heart rate. I sensed it through my throat. My heart rate was really fast.
I was shocked, how did this creep up on me so quickly?! It came on randomly.

I am seeing GP soon for medication options. Personally, supplements work for my milder symptoms, but feel I need medication for days when I am pretty much forced to call in sick at work.

[humbleb]

Yes anxiety happens unexpectedly and it's just in your nervous system from stress and tells your body. Sorry that this is happening, but your heart is fine. If it becomes more concerning get confirmation from a medical professional and this your intuition will hear if you don't believe otherwise.

yep medication can have great results, follow your gp's guidelines and if you feel it's not helping you can go to another medication. Keep with your gp until you feel better.

psychologists are great but remember, it will help a lot to de-stress your mind and body through meditation, breathing well, going for walks in fresh air, be gentle on yourself and it just takes time. Keep your mind and goal on full recovery and you are fine.. I promise.

[graysky]

Lm587 said:

i have not got to the point where I feel like fainting but the sunken feeling in my stomach, Nausea, racing heart and head rush feeling.

wheb this happens I have recently found a low dim room and listening to music can help calm me down.

Im not sure if it is common to have it only at night and pretty much every night but does sound similar to what your experiencing.

I know that feeling you described.
When I'm at work or in public, like even at the supermarket, I get very panicked when I experienced it as well, I feel like Im not in control of my own body. I feel faint after. It's happened a few times when I'm overwhelmed at work. I know it's not professional of me at all, but I have to disappear and go to the toilet, and then have something to drink. If not I would have been sick or fallen down to the floor.

[Lucy3]

Personally, I believe anxiety can cause just about any physical symptom known in medical history !

I have had some doozies in the past 3 to 5 years.

I'm not sure when it all started. Well I am, but not the anxiety side of things. I am sure I have had anxiety for a lot longer than when it was finally recognized.

10 years ago I became very unwell, vomiting most days for about 3 weeks. ( I should put in here, I am a registered nurse ). I ignored the vomiting, it will get better. Nurses are the worst for getting themselves help when unwell. lol. We are usually too busy caring for everyone else we forget ourselves.

Anyway as it wasnt getting better and I had lost 8 kg I decided to see a GP ( I didnt have a regular GP back then). So the doctor checks my blood pressure and its 247 / 138 ( normal is 120/70 give or take a few). Mine was heading for stroke territory. So he sent me off to hospital. While there i had my sugar levels checked and they were 29 ( normal is around 5 ). 2 weeks later I left hospital on a regime of Medication. I had multiple 24hr halter monitors, visits with the diabetic educator, several visits to ED with chest pain over the next few months.

Fast forward 5 years and my GP is still struggling to keep my BP and sugars under control ( Im now on insulin ), so I asked to see an endocrinologist. 5 months later after round after round of medical tests I found my self in hospital having my Pituitary gland removed. I had just been diagnosed with Cushing's disease.

Since then I have also been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and cirrhosis of my liver ( and I dont drink alcohol EVER I dont like the taste EEEWWW ). So health wise I wasnt too good. I have since had several trips to ED with laryngeal spasms. I could breath in but i couldnt breath out and pressure was building.

3 years ago I had a plan, i had the means and if my dog didnt walk in on me, I wouldnt be here today. But I am and Im so happy :). So why am i writing this. Well in all honesty I think it all could have been anxiety related. Yes I had a tumor on my pituitary gland, but it was benign and could have been an incidental finding. My cortisol levels were thru the roof, but stress/ anxiety can cause that. Last year my father died from Liver cancer so were are sure cirrhosis is hereditary ( i have 2 sisters and a brother with it as well). RA, well the doc said I have seronegative RA so im thinking Yep Anxiety lol

Our bodies are Incredible with what they can do 🙂

TFR Lucy

[C80]

Hi everyone,

I am new here but having read all the responses to this thread, I too can relate to the extreme side of physical manifestation of anxiety symptoms. I am a counselor and help people with anxiety on a regular basis but when it is yourself that suffers without any noticeable or identifiable triggers, as I have found out it is incredibly hard to fix.

I have had a few major life events that have hit me for six over the last 20 years and find that could have been indicative of my anxiety root causes. I use to be able to identify situations that would effect my anxiety most noticeably at first being social situations as originally that was my main type of anxiety. As I got older though it became less and less social and more general and very underlying. I do not suffer from major attacks but it can be ranging from very random to chronic and constant.

I have noticed that in the last 5 years it has been very health related and there was an occasion where I had woken up one morning with bad vertigo that left me with a perpetual hangover feeling after the spinning sensations were taken care of. I began thinking of a million things from tumors to candida! I kept being told by my GP that it was anxiety and that just made me feel like he was putting me in danger by fobbing it off. I got a second opinion and a CT scan revealed a low grade chronic sinusitis. Then came the relief but the symptoms soon returned only days later. It has been there ever since.

Here are some of my latest symptoms: Back pain, pain under the shoulder blade, poor concentration, inability to process info or maintain conversation, sensitivity to light or screens, headaches, indigestion, lack of sleep or waking through the night, random joint pain, shortness of breath, lump in throat, TMJ, poor memory, lack of motivation, random elevated heart rate, elevated temp.

I am currently going through shortness of breath, back pain, poor concentration and lump in throat. Since starting to thing I have a dire prognosis with my lungs I have developed new sensations: A mild cough, I am constantly trying to breath deeply in case I notice anything more.. I even wake up and make a point of listening to myself breath. I even listen to my lungs with a stethoscope! My GP does not want to give an x-ray and says its muscular. Yet I wont stop worrying unless I get the scan so unfortunately that will be next.

This anxiety business is boundless with possibilities for the individual as we can see here.

[KMTE]

I could have written that myself! My physical symptoms have changed so much over the last few months and at the moment it's chest pain and shortness of breath which of course makes my anxiety worse. I'm off to the doctors today again (ive already had an ECG that came back clear) but I'm not satisfied. I too want an X ray. Let me know how you get on! 🙂

[Pmac]

Hi,

ive been suffering physical anxiety symptoms for a year now after a job loss and long term unemployment. I shake, bash things, rambling and cannot relax at all. It's so crippling that I dot go anywhere anymore. It's destroyed my life.