Stress Center Peer Support

I am curious to know if any of you have had other symptoms other than what is listed in book 1?

Please share your symptoms. Here are mine numbered.

1. Fear of choking when swallowing food.
2. space type feeling. Like my vision changes.
3. Constant need to go to the hospital to feel safe.

4. Heart thumps like it skips a beat. ( Is that what they mean by heart paliputation?)

5. Fear of the public. I pretty much stay away from people right now. I am so scared i will pass out in front of people or something.

6. Fear of being alone period. I am scared that if I am alone with my kids I will fall or something and the kids will be left all alone or something.

7. Fear of going to the hospital because I am scared the people at the hospital think I am crazy.

8. I have had so many different medical tests done. Each one for heart problems, brain problems, and such have come back normal. My blood pressure has come back normal, cholesterol, thyroid, blood sugar and more. Still I am scared I must have something they are forgetting. I sometimes fear as though I have something new that they don't know about yet. Almost a form of hypoconrizm. This constant fear is really odd for me. I used to be a very daring person and never thought about medical stuff at all.

Is Irritable bowel syndrome caused by panic attacks? Does the natural adrinilen ( ms) somehow overload and cause the loose stools?

Gosh I have so many questions for others and so many things I would just like to talk about with others who are going threw this.

My husband doesn't understand anything about panic attacks. Many people around me keep telling me that a panic attack means something is wrong with my heart and such.

Gosh I get so scared.

Hey Lovenotchains;
I have had some of the same symptoms.Some of my symptoms are as follows;racing heart,chest pain,extreme fear that I was having a heart attack,extreme fear of dying,nausea,loose,stools, and constipation.I was going to the ER,and following up with my doctor all the time.I felt the same way going to the doctor,that they will think that I am crazy or something.Right before my doctor started me on medication,I had been to the ER once a month.This started in February,but now that I look back on it I having been going through this for about 21 months now, but have always been a worrier,and have been high strung, and fearful at times.I too had so many tests on my heart,and stomach, and they always came back negative,nothing wrong.My cholesterol is a tad high but my doctor told me that my ratios between good and bad,are within limits.Don't worry.I know that is easier said than done,but you are not alone.Sit down with your doctor,tell him what you just wrote in your post,and keep your chin up.

I just wanted you to know that u are not alone. I have suffered from chronic anxiety & depression since I was 12 years old. I am married too and it is very difficult to understand fear if you do not have it. It took a long time for my husband to understand why I would all of a sudden get scared and would want to end our date out, early in our relaitonship. You will be told that it dosen't make since, and their right it dosen't make since to anyone else but the one that is suffering. Please just know you are not crazy and not alone.

I was doing fairly good for the past few days. I was talking myself out of the panic attacks and everything.

Then boom I walked into two rooms at the hospital one of the patients is on life support. The other one is in their last stages of cancer. I felt a knot in my stomach and felt like I couldn't breathe again. I tried to talk myself out of what I saw but it was to late. My heart just started breaking for the people. I felt so helpless.

The nurses then came to the food court for lunch and started talking about the people symptoms and such. They went into details with descriptions and that scared me too.

Is it normal to be so scared of death? Or to feel so nausiated at the sight of someone dying? It makes me cry. It makes me feel like running.