LIST YOUR SYMPTOMS & LAUGH (need feedback)

iamnate · Post by **iamnate** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:34 pm

Originally posted by Chucked:
Here's my list of characters that wait to meet me each day. I don't usually have all at once, they like to have their own special time for me to focus on them. But I've got at least a couple of these all the time. When I seem to get one under control, one takes it's place. The the cycle starts over at the top of the list. My main problem is the balance/woozy feeling and the feeling of incredibly drowsiness. It's not due to mediciation. I don't take anything. But at times I feel as though I'm just going to fall into a coma. Anyone else ever have that? It makes me panic because no matter how I try to shake it and wake myself up, it hangs on. I rarely ever sleep from it, but I do lay down because I can't function during that time. It's like I'm drugged.

(1) Woozy - off balance all the time
(2) Sleepy all the time
(3) Stomach tension
(4) Can't get a deep breath
(5) Hot flashes
(6) Cold chills
(7) Night sweats
(8) Frequent urination
(9) Weight Loss
(10) Nausea
(11) Bloated all the time
(12) Pressure in or around head and eyes
(13) Pressure in or around ears
(14) Ringing ears
(15) Vision problems usually leading to headache

Same here
i feel it everyday on the daily it's like being "high" constantly.

stripey · Post by **stripey** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:37 pm

Great discussion. Mine are/were

thinking I'm going to faint
thinking I'm going mad and am sure to get a dreadful and serious mental illness
worring about seizures or fits (but never having one!)
Restless legs
hard to concentrate on anything other than anxiety research
Lunges of dread in the stomach
not being able to get to sleep
waking early
shaking hands when holding a cup of glass and bringing it to my lips

I love laughing at them. I have embraced and welcomed each and every one of them with open arms and bit by bit they have died away....

(not easy though and I did it with a bit of help from some medication!)

jjfaul · Post by **jjfaul** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:15 pm

My symptoms!

general feeling of fear
tiredness
poor memory
feeling out of it
muscle tension
fear of forgetting how to breath
fear that my heart will stop beating
fear of traveling distances
palpitations
sweaty palms
unexplained aches of pains
fear of going crazy
i could probably list 20 more..haha

great post...Its good to see that none of my symptoms are original...

iamnate · Post by **iamnate** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:33 pm

Heh just though about it
and really instead of individually saying "MY SYMPTOMS" we could think of it as "OUR SYMPTOMS" since most of our feelings are alike aye? :p

Lynn212 · Post by **Lynn212** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:24 pm

so glad I found this thread...I can relate to all of the symptoms listed. Does anyone feel like they have trouble walking sometimes? Sometimes it's because I'm lightheaded/spaced out, other times I just get really nervous walking around outside. If someone else has experienced this, please let me know.

Shiksa™ · Post by **Shiksa™** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:11 pm

My Symptoms are:

1) Derealization
2) Heart obsession/racing heart/feelings of heart attack/severe chest pains
3)Feelings like I'm going to pass out or go into a coma
4) Sensitivity to light - makes me dizzy and panicky, and for some reason very tired too
5) Feelings of panick when I try to sit down and have a conversation, especially at a restaurant
6) Fear of choking (swallowing causing choking or knot in throat)
7) Can't breathe or catch my breath - fear of stopping breathing and hyperventilation
8) Arm strain... fear of heart attack or stroke

I'm having this fear of going to the dentist tomorrow for my wisdom tooth extraction. I'm not afraid of the procedure, but I'm afraid of something happening after it. Geez it feels good to vent

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:03 pm

lynn,when i had it the 1st time. i could not walk from one room to another. my husband had to carry me into the hospital. i don't have it nearly that bad this time. and will never wait that long again to get help. lololol wow i thought i was going to kill myself.

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:37 pm

This is like lesson 10. only a few of you went ahead and wrote the laugh part.

Chucked; I too feel like I am going in to a coma, I just have to lay down, If any one is with me I just tell them my body is telling me to "lay down befor I throw you down" That is why driving very far scars me I will need a nap before I can come home.

I had migrains for 30 years and these feel like painless migrains. the vision, the trouble saying words, and the incessent fatigue. I don't have migrains any more.
It makes your story more intresting with a villin in it. I used to use migrains, now I hav Anxiety, for star billing. The migrains nearly always wone, but this story has a hero, Me, I am wipping this, with my supporting actor, my coach, and my top writer Lucinda without them I would still be crying, and searching for answers. Now my story has victory, and except for a few scurmaches, I am in controle of this chaper, in my life. Joy comes every morning, my eyes open and they don't hurt. God is so good to have lead me to this program. God Bless your mess too!!!!

rcg · Post by **rcg** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:22 pm

I can relate to Michelle and Shiksa, I have a heart obsession and I think about my breathing most of the time. I've had tests done for both and eveything comes back fine,in fact they tell me that I take in an above average amount of air when I breathe. I've gone through the program and I've come a long way, but lately I find myself second guessing my recovery and trying to convince myself that maybe my physical symptoms are caused by something else. I'm sure that it's just a growth spurt, but I get frustrated when the old feelings come back because I feel like I should be over it and it scares me to think that it might come back. Like Lucinda said, I've never gone back to square one, but sometimes I get scared that I might.

LocoSomo · Post by **LocoSomo** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:27 pm

lol I usually don't post but i just had to, I wanted to see if anyone out there is just like me because right now, i'm really really confused.

Right time I wake up:
(1) Trembling
(2) knot in stomach
(3) fear
(4) Obsessive worrying about the day ahead

As the day goes on..:
(1) Worry "I'm going to be late for work!" The whole time i'm getting dressed
(2) Cold sweats
(3) Racing heartbeat
(4) OCD tendencies
(5) Did I say I worried about everything?
(6) Never relaxed
(7) ADHD causes a mild stutter
(8) Lightheadedness
(9) Feels like I weigh a ton
(10) Just lost 60 pounds and I feel like I weigh more
(11) No joy in anything
(12) major depression
(13) Agrophobic
(14) can't remember anything
(16) Always stressed out
(17) spacyness 24/7
(18) Vision blurry all the time
(19) Don't really feel any emotion (sadness, anger, joy, love, hate, sympathy)
(20) Obsess about the stuttering so I stutter more
(21) constant knot in my throat from fear of stuttering
(22) withdrawn most of the time
(23) Want to be alone
(24) getting more depressed as I write this crap down
(25) constant neck stiffness/pain
(26) constant back stiffness/pain
(27) Always thinking about everyone else but me

The thing that gets me is, I know what I should be thinking, what I want to be thinking, but.. I can't think it. My mind gets flooded with these OCD-like thoughts all the time, some aren't even complete thoughts just scraps of imagery. Someone please tell me whats wrong O.o