Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:57 pm
Hey all, I am just putting this out there, and seeing if anyone has noticed anything similar.
Once I learned what 'anxiety' was I learned self help tools to deal, and I've had good weeks and hard weeks, I've had a myriad of symptoms, started when I was a kid with worrying myself sick, then in my 20's obsessive scary thoughts, uncontrollable shaking, panic attacks to name a few, then when that disappeared, then it was weird pains in the head, tension headaches with sharp pains, chest pains, after MULITPLE ER, Dr's visits, and ekg, stress test, heart halter moniter, etc. It all came back to stress, even when I had chest pain, and numbness in my face and down my left arm, all stress.
I"m learning as we age, the stress and anxiety show up differently, now i've got body aches, tingling, burning, more numbness in my tongue, stiffness in my neck, blurry vision at times, heavy chest after exercise. hard to breathe
So i'm not FEELING stressed though I could cry at the drop of a at&t commercial.
I moved onto 'health anxiety' do i have ms? fibromyalgia? cancer? tumor?
And now after all these years I'm still having great weeks, and then bad weeks where I have to review the program, call a friend, use LOTS of positive talk.
For example yesterday I felt terrible, all kinds of WeIRD body symptoms, muscle weakness, tingling etc, I was upset, and my symptoms freak me out,they'd been coming on frequently for weeks, and finally I talked to a fellow anxiety friend, and after talking, she reminded me how were all just "hypersenstive people", everyone has the same thoughts we do, they just let them go much faster, while we obsess.
Everyone including healthy people, have the same physical symptoms, and they brush it off, and when you don't focus on the symptom it goes away or decreases immensly.
while we focus on symptoms and it gets more intense and worse!
So today, I did it, when I started to feel my symptoms coming on, I used positive self talk, even though I was a bit cheessy, "im okay, I'm fine, it's not a disease, find somthing to do" and here it is evening time, and I have ZERO symptoms! or at least im feeling good and not paying much mind to them.
If your still with me reading this email, GOd bless you, my point is this,
we all have ups and downs in this ride of life, and even though you may be a veteran at this, we all need reminding, and new symptoms may crop up, sometimes my anxiety will build over months and will finally hit me when life is calm. Anyone notice that? So that's where I am.
A veteran anxiety girl, with a myriad of symptoms, and still learning new tools all the time, yet I wouldn't trade it. Everyone hang in there, we're all smart, creative, sensitive, intelligent people who just feel more, think more and worry more than most, however we can love MORE too. When we don't use it to make ourselves sick, we can be amazing friends, spouses,parents, teachers, doctors, coaches etc.
Please leave feedback I'd love to hear everyones story, Godbless I'll pray we all have a peaceful nite!
"Cast all your anxietys on him, because he cares for you" 1 peter 5;5 ( i think)
Once I learned what 'anxiety' was I learned self help tools to deal, and I've had good weeks and hard weeks, I've had a myriad of symptoms, started when I was a kid with worrying myself sick, then in my 20's obsessive scary thoughts, uncontrollable shaking, panic attacks to name a few, then when that disappeared, then it was weird pains in the head, tension headaches with sharp pains, chest pains, after MULITPLE ER, Dr's visits, and ekg, stress test, heart halter moniter, etc. It all came back to stress, even when I had chest pain, and numbness in my face and down my left arm, all stress.
I"m learning as we age, the stress and anxiety show up differently, now i've got body aches, tingling, burning, more numbness in my tongue, stiffness in my neck, blurry vision at times, heavy chest after exercise. hard to breathe
So i'm not FEELING stressed though I could cry at the drop of a at&t commercial.
I moved onto 'health anxiety' do i have ms? fibromyalgia? cancer? tumor?
And now after all these years I'm still having great weeks, and then bad weeks where I have to review the program, call a friend, use LOTS of positive talk.
For example yesterday I felt terrible, all kinds of WeIRD body symptoms, muscle weakness, tingling etc, I was upset, and my symptoms freak me out,they'd been coming on frequently for weeks, and finally I talked to a fellow anxiety friend, and after talking, she reminded me how were all just "hypersenstive people", everyone has the same thoughts we do, they just let them go much faster, while we obsess.
Everyone including healthy people, have the same physical symptoms, and they brush it off, and when you don't focus on the symptom it goes away or decreases immensly.
while we focus on symptoms and it gets more intense and worse!
So today, I did it, when I started to feel my symptoms coming on, I used positive self talk, even though I was a bit cheessy, "im okay, I'm fine, it's not a disease, find somthing to do" and here it is evening time, and I have ZERO symptoms! or at least im feeling good and not paying much mind to them.
If your still with me reading this email, GOd bless you, my point is this,
we all have ups and downs in this ride of life, and even though you may be a veteran at this, we all need reminding, and new symptoms may crop up, sometimes my anxiety will build over months and will finally hit me when life is calm. Anyone notice that? So that's where I am.
A veteran anxiety girl, with a myriad of symptoms, and still learning new tools all the time, yet I wouldn't trade it. Everyone hang in there, we're all smart, creative, sensitive, intelligent people who just feel more, think more and worry more than most, however we can love MORE too. When we don't use it to make ourselves sick, we can be amazing friends, spouses,parents, teachers, doctors, coaches etc.
Please leave feedback I'd love to hear everyones story, Godbless I'll pray we all have a peaceful nite!
"Cast all your anxietys on him, because he cares for you" 1 peter 5;5 ( i think)
) and it introduces a whole new meaning to anxiety, heart palpitations, etc. In fact, I was just in the ER this morning after waking up with chest pain, heart palps, and a few other symptoms. 
