WHAT ARE YOUR PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS???

waterdrinker1 · Post by **waterdrinker1** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:04 pm

I have a wide range of symptoms. Just wondering if I am alone in the world of anxiety.
I get the uneasy feeling first then it can go to any sorts of things/
My arm on my left side aches, my jaws throb, I get short of breath, Hypervenalate, feel exhausted, my mouth feels numb around it, sometimes numbness in my face.

To me my fear is heart attack....U have had EKGs and cardio blood work ups. But everyone tells me it anxiety.

What types of symptoms do you have???

Thanks
Waterdrinker

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:26 pm

I used to have really bad ones. I had pain my chest that radiated around to my back, couldn't breath, tingling in my hands, sometimes my hands would cramp up and I couldn't move them.
Since, I have begun to have them again.
They are much less physical, partially I think because I know what is causing them.
I turn bright red(which I hate), I get short of breath and shakey, my mind races, and I sometimes feel dizzy or faint.

Eden · Post by **Eden** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:04 pm

First I get a weird scary feeling in my stomach like when you get scared and you get that little adreneline rush. Then I feel the rush through my arms and then I start to shake and my teeth chatter and I feel a real urgent need to get up and just pace around.
Sometimes I just have to curl up on the floor and rock back and forth til the feeling goes away but then I am tired and depressed for about two hours afterwards. Sometimes my throat closes up and its hard to breath and I feel like something is stuck in my throat. I also feel dizzy like I'm going to faint and I start to hyperventilate.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:34 pm

I had what your saying with the heart attack business....I was convinced I was dying from heart disease. I had palpitations (which I didnt know what they were) just that they were this flip flopping feeling in my chest..I had pains and I felt all dizzy and it was so scary. I did so many tests I wore a holter monitor for 48 hours which fed the hospital with results all day long. I had ultrasounds with cardiologists and all was normal. I couldnt believe it. But I had to. I had to tell me that it was just my anxiety.....now I spent so many wasted hours on tests and so much money to find out it was what the doctors told me in the first place......so when I say been there done that I mean it.

Now I tend to move on to other issues...Im learning to get over them faster and with less intense medical testing....the program has helped me. I still freak out often about my health and it can put me in a total tailspin of feeling hot flushes and dizzy, low blood sugar feelings and faintness, that bewilderment feeling, to IBS symptoms everything can and does bother me from time to time but like I said the program and the chat have been my saving grace.

You will be ok....you just have to learn to believe in your body and trust that its healthy and can sustain you. Trust yourself.
Dodger

pecos · Post by **pecos** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:36 pm

This is ME!!!! You are not alone! If I could only explain to you to the extent I have taken these symptoms/feelings! The thing is...the symptoms are REAL! Then I worry "what if" something is really wrong and I say to myself, oh, well, it's just my anxiety... but what if it really is a heart attack or something is really wrong and I ignor it thinking it's Just my anxiety and then I die because I waited too long or I was wrong. That only adds to my anxiety! What to do what to do!??? I still am nt past this point, ikt seems to be gettin g worse but I just bought Lucinda's program and I have 3 different doctors working with me and I do believe have my best interest in mind... do they have my cure or a pill that will make my life perfect? Hell no! You see, we're all here and we all have problems, some a little different than others, but are they really that diffrent? I don't think so. I believe something in OUR minds are a little different thqn those of others, but we're all trying to get through this thing they call "life" and each and every one of us has very different struggles,...but in a way they're all the same. You all have my prayers, we are all inthis together! xoxoxox

Meesh · Post by **Meesh** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:56 am

To Waterdrinker, and everyone.
I have the same symptoms. The numbness in my face and around my mouth drives me absolutely nuts. And the dizziness is everyday, all day. I have had a million heart attacks in my mind, but no. Just anxiety. But I get the what if's.. what if this is a heart atttack and I am just saying anxiety....it is so scarey. I hate it more and more everyday. I hope there is an end in sight. Reading all this does help knowing your not alone....It sucks.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:51 am

There was a recent topic just like this. Here is the link to it (hopefully it will work) so you can read through what others have said. I've had that jaw/numbness/arm feeling as well and its all associated with TMJ...do you clench your jaw at all?

<A HREF="http://bbs.stresscenter.com/eve/forums/ ... 1981070024" TARGET=_blank>http://bbs.stresscenter.com/eve/forums/ ... 1070024</A>

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:56 am

I know Lucinda says nothing can happen from an anxiety attack, but since the symptoms are real.....have any of you fainted from an attack?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:49 pm

I find myself relating with Dodger--I also felt lighter when I read his response. Only because I feel a sense of total relief. When my face goes numb, I think I'm having a stroke and that just makes it all worse. Then I go into dizziness and total weakness--feeling like my blood sugar has crashed. I get a tingling sensation in my head and sometimes heart fluttering if I bend over. Don't you just get so terribly tired of feeling slight and ill all of the time. I don't feel alone anymore in this and God, I can't tell you how much that helps me!!!

had enough · Post by **had enough** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:42 am

Thanks for all of your responses. It does help to see that we are not alone. But at the same point I wish NO ONE ever had to experience this.
Being in a state of fear all your life just plain ole sucks!
Thank you for taking the time to read and write in this topic.