ahefner33
07-05-2013, 06:53 PM
Hello
I am pretty new to dealing with anxiety and its effects. This has completely altered my daily life and I am working on dealing with it.
My story pretty much started having a sudden pain, numbness and fainting spell that left me with a visit to the ER. All the tests came back normal. The way I felt however did not.
After that day I have constant symptoms that I have found all on the list of symptoms of having anxiety. My symptoms include a constant disorientation (fuzzy headed), pain and discomforts in the chest, facial, arm, feet numbness, pressure in the ears, and rapid heartbeat. The odd thing with the symptoms is I can have a complete day feeling great with none of these and then a day where its constantly all through out the day. Then days where I only feel the symptoms for brief times.
I followed up with our family Dr after the ER visit which I was assured I had a healthy heart (since worried of heart attack had happen) and said he thought I had Vertigo for my dizziness and gave me medicine for it. He hasn't officially said I had anxiety. Upon further research, I realized I don't have vertigo ( I dont have a spinning sensation but rather a constant foggy headed/slightly blurry vision) and also the medicine didn't work. I have another follow up in 2 weeks.
My problem with understanding with whats going on with anxiety is my symptoms seemed to be constant and usually dont go away or come on when Im not in any stressful situation. They'll happen at randoms times such as after I eat, after working out and feeling fine before going, and even recently had a near fainting and nassuea episode when I was in a crowd, which has not ever been a problem for me in my life. I can be having a great time with friends and all these symptoms will hit me without even thinking of anything stress related. Another episode was when I was sleeping and woke up with all the symptoms at full blast and I would even sit here and tell myself that its not a real heart attack or anything else but symptoms remain.
So can anxiety cause symptoms (constant symptoms - not 10-20 minute occurences) without consciously thinking of any problem and come a go randomly with no pattern?
Again this is all new to me as of the past 2 weeks so I'm trying to better educate myself on whats going on.
Thanks in advance
I am pretty new to dealing with anxiety and its effects. This has completely altered my daily life and I am working on dealing with it.
My story pretty much started having a sudden pain, numbness and fainting spell that left me with a visit to the ER. All the tests came back normal. The way I felt however did not.
After that day I have constant symptoms that I have found all on the list of symptoms of having anxiety. My symptoms include a constant disorientation (fuzzy headed), pain and discomforts in the chest, facial, arm, feet numbness, pressure in the ears, and rapid heartbeat. The odd thing with the symptoms is I can have a complete day feeling great with none of these and then a day where its constantly all through out the day. Then days where I only feel the symptoms for brief times.
I followed up with our family Dr after the ER visit which I was assured I had a healthy heart (since worried of heart attack had happen) and said he thought I had Vertigo for my dizziness and gave me medicine for it. He hasn't officially said I had anxiety. Upon further research, I realized I don't have vertigo ( I dont have a spinning sensation but rather a constant foggy headed/slightly blurry vision) and also the medicine didn't work. I have another follow up in 2 weeks.
My problem with understanding with whats going on with anxiety is my symptoms seemed to be constant and usually dont go away or come on when Im not in any stressful situation. They'll happen at randoms times such as after I eat, after working out and feeling fine before going, and even recently had a near fainting and nassuea episode when I was in a crowd, which has not ever been a problem for me in my life. I can be having a great time with friends and all these symptoms will hit me without even thinking of anything stress related. Another episode was when I was sleeping and woke up with all the symptoms at full blast and I would even sit here and tell myself that its not a real heart attack or anything else but symptoms remain.
So can anxiety cause symptoms (constant symptoms - not 10-20 minute occurences) without consciously thinking of any problem and come a go randomly with no pattern?
Again this is all new to me as of the past 2 weeks so I'm trying to better educate myself on whats going on.
Thanks in advance