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lianne35
12-29-2014, 04:27 AM
Hello,
I am a young woman from Holland and i am desperate. Writing this email is awful. I experience horror feelings for over a year. My dr. says I have anxiety and stress. In my blood they can't find anything. Tomorrow I have a MRI scan of my head. I don't know if I experience withdrawal symptoms from taking Alprazolam. I take 1 mg a day, now i reduced to 0,5 mg. When I reduced the symptoms became stronger and stronger. For over a year now I can't work, and my life is most of the time at home. When I do my best I sometimes can go out, but not in stores or something my head goes crazy..:(

My symptoms:
-Weird feeling in head when i am trying to concentrate, focus. Just like it is unable to do. My neck has big pressure when i am doing this. I only want to lie down dan on the couch and I am exhausted. It already there with simple things like making food or I want to see how the oven works. This is most horror feeling i experience.
-racing thoughts and body when waking up. Feels like a care drove over me. My muscle ache so much and I feel exhausted.
-When I do my walk outside for over 1 hour after my muscles feel so sore. Like restless legs. It is a itchy pain not normal muscle pain.
-I have difficulty with speeking and finding words.
-When i am upset and want to make my point in a discussion it doesn't work, my neck wil swollen en wil get thight and breathing gets difficult.
-my hands are stiff and my earts hurt.
-i have weird dreams, sometimes I scratch myself in my sleep, sometimes body parts are sleeping when I wake up en It is so scaring.
-My eyes burn a lot and I am unable to get sharp.
-When I walk into a store a strange feeling is there because of all the incentives. Diner in a restaurants seems to go right, I don't know why.

When I am drinking a glas of wine a feel a sort of relieve, but this can't be the solution.

Please, please If you recognize something please answer, I was a young, active beautiful woman, but now I feel like a 92 year old...I don't know how long I can take this. If I hear your stories maybe there is a relief.

Lots of love from Holland!

lianne35
12-29-2014, 04:28 AM
p.s. my heart races sometimes...

gypsylee
12-30-2014, 07:42 AM
Hello,
I am a young woman from Holland and i am desperate. Writing this email is awful. I experience horror feelings for over a year. My dr. says I have anxiety and stress. In my blood they can't find anything. Tomorrow I have a MRI scan of my head. I don't know if I experience withdrawal symptoms from taking Alprazolam. I take 1 mg a day, now i reduced to 0,5 mg. When I reduced the symptoms became stronger and stronger. For over a year now I can't work, and my life is most of the time at home. When I do my best I sometimes can go out, but not in stores or something my head goes crazy..:(

My symptoms:
-Weird feeling in head when i am trying to concentrate, focus. Just like it is unable to do. My neck has big pressure when i am doing this. I only want to lie down dan on the couch and I am exhausted. It already there with simple things like making food or I want to see how the oven works. This is most horror feeling i experience.
-racing thoughts and body when waking up. Feels like a care drove over me. My muscle ache so much and I feel exhausted.
-When I do my walk outside for over 1 hour after my muscles feel so sore. Like restless legs. It is a itchy pain not normal muscle pain.
-I have difficulty with speeking and finding words.
-When i am upset and want to make my point in a discussion it doesn't work, my neck wil swollen en wil get thight and breathing gets difficult.
-my hands are stiff and my earts hurt.
-i have weird dreams, sometimes I scratch myself in my sleep, sometimes body parts are sleeping when I wake up en It is so scaring.
-My eyes burn a lot and I am unable to get sharp.
-When I walk into a store a strange feeling is there because of all the incentives. Diner in a restaurants seems to go right, I don't know why.

When I am drinking a glas of wine a feel a sort of relieve, but this can't be the solution.

Please, please If you recognize something please answer, I was a young, active beautiful woman, but now I feel like a 92 year old...I don't know how long I can take this. If I hear your stories maybe there is a relief.

Lots of love from Holland!

Hi Lianne, welcome to the forum :)

Well I can relate to some of this - mostly the mental symptoms like the inability to go into stores. The withdrawal from Alprazolam probably does make your anxiety quite a bit worse.

I hope the MRI gives you some answers - some of these things don't sound like they are caused by anxiety to me.

Love from Australia :)
Gypsy x

jessed03
01-01-2015, 05:59 PM
Hey Lianne!

Greetings from England!

Stress can be crazy. I really mean that. At times I was begging my doctor to give me more tests because I could not believe some symptoms were down to stress. It can affect people in the most subtle ways, and the most dramatic, too.

Have you read any material on anxiety? I have some pretty good ebooks I can share with you, or I can recommend some great books you can buy online for a low price. I get the impression from your post that the mental side of things isn't as down as it could be.