Retriever
08-28-2009, 11:44 AM
Hi All:
I am a 41-year old male who has experienced or been diagnosed for anxiety for the past 5 years. For the past 3 weeks, I have been having strange feelings of my head - sudden light-headedness that causes heart palpitations and numbness in my legs/sweaty palms. It feels like I am having a mild stroke or a heart attack. The funny thing is that I know it is caused by anxiety but having a hard time to constantly fight with and 'convince' my brain that it is only anxiety and nothing else. As to why I am having a hard time with my own brain, you may find this intriguing. It was 5 years ago on President's day when I experienced a sudden bout of light-headness that led to a lot of physical symptoms. To cut a long story short, my family doctor, a cardioliogist, a neurologist, and my own brother who is a pulmonary specialist all diagnosed me as having anxiety disorder. It was not until I insisted on a brain MRI to prove ALL of them wrong - a 2cm benign brain tumor called acoustic neuroma pressing against my brain stem! Anyways, I got that fixed, but since then every little thing can cause me to have anxiety problems. Sorry for the rambling. By writing this out to this forum and sharing with all of you actually makes me feel better.
I am a 41-year old male who has experienced or been diagnosed for anxiety for the past 5 years. For the past 3 weeks, I have been having strange feelings of my head - sudden light-headedness that causes heart palpitations and numbness in my legs/sweaty palms. It feels like I am having a mild stroke or a heart attack. The funny thing is that I know it is caused by anxiety but having a hard time to constantly fight with and 'convince' my brain that it is only anxiety and nothing else. As to why I am having a hard time with my own brain, you may find this intriguing. It was 5 years ago on President's day when I experienced a sudden bout of light-headness that led to a lot of physical symptoms. To cut a long story short, my family doctor, a cardioliogist, a neurologist, and my own brother who is a pulmonary specialist all diagnosed me as having anxiety disorder. It was not until I insisted on a brain MRI to prove ALL of them wrong - a 2cm benign brain tumor called acoustic neuroma pressing against my brain stem! Anyways, I got that fixed, but since then every little thing can cause me to have anxiety problems. Sorry for the rambling. By writing this out to this forum and sharing with all of you actually makes me feel better.