A very warm welcome to you 🙂
It would definitely be so much easier if you knew exactly what was going on. Then, you could manage what you know the issue is. I can understand the stress you must be feeling at times and even fear in some cases. I wish you had the answers so as to put your mind at ease.
I used to experience silent migraines (migraines without headaches) which came with some pretty strange side effects. A couple of the side effects involved a triggering of my nervous system and chemical rushes. I could be all happy or all calm and then suddenly it would be as though I was having an anxiety attack. I was lucky enough to be having one of these episodes in an MRI machine, which made the diagnosis easy. My mum used to experience something a little similar. She'd be sitting there all calm and happy when suddenly she'd feel her nervous system go into overdrive for no obvious reason. She had a whole number of tests done (including and extensive array of heart tests) and, after everything sinister was ruled out, she ended up seeing a neurologist. With a slight shift in blood pressure or electrical charges in the brain (nothing at all to worry about), the part of the brain that relates to the nervous system and aspects that are tied to the nervous system can react to the shift or sudden charge/surge. Btw, the episodes I experienced for a number of months disappeared as suddenly as they'd appeared. Quite the mystery.
While my usual GP put my episodes down to anxiety and wanted to put me on anti anxiety medication, a different GP (who I went to for a 2nd opinion) wondered a little more and sent me for the brain scan. My mum's GP also wondered, which led him to send her to a neurologist. Her neurologist also wondered and put on a certain med for the brain glitches/charges and she hasn't had an episode since.
With a sudden shift in the nervous system, I suppose the question is 'What's the stimulant/trigger?'. Whether it involves stress, certain thoughts, what runs through our imagination, harmless electrical charges/blood pressure shifts/chemical shifts, coffee, energy drinks, a reaction to certain foods or something else, it pays to wonder about a whole variety of things. As long as anything worrying is ruled out, anything else is technically nothing to worry about. It's simply something to wonder about. If you want to lead your GP to wonder more (beyond anxiety), this could be something worth considering. I hope you find your answers 🙂
