Anxiety as a symptom of another disease?
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Draakprinses
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I've always had anxiety, as far back as I can remember. But today I was tested for Hypothyroidism. I looked up symptoms for that and it said that anxiety and panic attacks can occur with it. Well, for the past four or five months, my anxiety has been off the charts. I was wondering if anyone has experienced an increase in anxiety due to another condition, and how they dealt with it.
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draakprinses,
hypothyroidism is also listed under chronic disease sufferers lower down on the 'Everyone Welcome' section of this forum.
i have a current thread asking 'how to deal with chronic disease'.
there is also a thread just for hypothyroidism.
as far as panic and anxiety goes, i really don't know what is work related and what is from the condition.
my first anxiety attacks that really affected me happened a about 4 years ago; and were work related. But i had such intestinal distress when going into work, i was convinced that i had food poisoning.
i went to the doctor after suffering for a month and he did every test imaginable, blood, stool, urine, feeling my body...only to settle on anxiety and request me to come in for another blood test...for thyroid. my TSH was a 31!
it was not long after this however, that i was thankfully transferred out of my bad job and the anxiety left. but, i also started taking levothyroxine at the same time.
could it have been my thyroid? i don't know.
this past spring i suffered and am still recovering from my worst experience with anxiety and was diagnosed with panic disorder.
i have been getting rx for hypothyroidism for 3 years, but had ALOT of life stuff going on ALL at the same time (going back to school FULL time while also working full time, moving, getting married, wife wanting kids and a mortgage while i just wanted to get out of my horrible toxic job, chronic stress from pressure at work, pressure at home, pressure at school...i was trapped).
was that due to hypothyroidism? once again, can't say for sure.
both circumstances were different (one before treatment, one during).
looking back, and through counseling, it is clear that i have always had anxiety.
it just has never influenced me like this past year.
hypothyroidism is also listed under chronic disease sufferers lower down on the 'Everyone Welcome' section of this forum.
i have a current thread asking 'how to deal with chronic disease'.
there is also a thread just for hypothyroidism.
as far as panic and anxiety goes, i really don't know what is work related and what is from the condition.
my first anxiety attacks that really affected me happened a about 4 years ago; and were work related. But i had such intestinal distress when going into work, i was convinced that i had food poisoning.
i went to the doctor after suffering for a month and he did every test imaginable, blood, stool, urine, feeling my body...only to settle on anxiety and request me to come in for another blood test...for thyroid. my TSH was a 31!
it was not long after this however, that i was thankfully transferred out of my bad job and the anxiety left. but, i also started taking levothyroxine at the same time.
could it have been my thyroid? i don't know.
this past spring i suffered and am still recovering from my worst experience with anxiety and was diagnosed with panic disorder.
i have been getting rx for hypothyroidism for 3 years, but had ALOT of life stuff going on ALL at the same time (going back to school FULL time while also working full time, moving, getting married, wife wanting kids and a mortgage while i just wanted to get out of my horrible toxic job, chronic stress from pressure at work, pressure at home, pressure at school...i was trapped).
was that due to hypothyroidism? once again, can't say for sure.
both circumstances were different (one before treatment, one during).
looking back, and through counseling, it is clear that i have always had anxiety.
it just has never influenced me like this past year.
Wow, it's kind of funny, that sort of seems to be what I'm going through. I've had anxiety for as long as I can remember, but I was fifteen when I was diagnosed with GAD and depression. But it has never been to the extreme that it's gotten to the past half year or so. I'm taking the spring semester off, it's gotten so bad. I don't knwo for sure if I do have hypothyroidism, but so many of my symptoms coincide, it's unnerving. Yeah, in September I was taken through so many tests, blood, urine, stool, X-rays, even CT scans, but nothing showed up. They didn't test for my thyroid until today, though. Heh, my doctor was actually a bit upset that she didn't think to test for it before. But so many of the symptoms are ambiguous, and associated with anxiety itself, that I wasn't surprised, it's easy to miss, I'm sure.
I'm just kind of scared what the test results will come back as.
I'm just kind of scared what the test results will come back as.