m0ses
06-30-2011, 01:56 AM
Hi All,
from browsing around the last hour or so I can see some great resources here so I thought I'd better get myself signed up.
I'll try to keep it pretty brief with a back story cause I could just about write a book at this point ;)
30 year old male living in Australia.
After suffering with a life time of anxiety I thought I had my problem pretty much under control until a few days ago. For the last year I have been doing lots of meditation and Reiki, breathing exercises and self help work. So I haven't really suffered from anxiety in a year. Despite having 2 big operations, which I thought was the acid test. I got through them both without a panic attack, in fact with a strange sense of detachment, hardly bothered me at all.
So at this point you can imagine I'm feeling pretty confident that I've sorted out my anxiety problem. Well...not quite...
I was still a little careful about what I ate and drank, as a big symptom of anxiety for me is stomach upset and nausea. Anyway last week I had to take a course of antibiotics for a throat and chest infection. No big deal, or so I thought at the time. The antibiotics didn't agree with me and gave me pretty severe diarrhoea. Dealt with it and got through the course. Saturday I finished the course and Sunday was feeling good. So Sunday night I start to feel quite unwell and the diarrhoea starts again, by Monday morning I was in quite bad pain with an urgency to go all the time, not that anything was really coming out cause I hadn't really eaten. Anyway the pain went away but the sensation to go didn't.
This lasted a couple of days and a couple of doctors visits. Anyway had a colonoscopy today to check for various causes, came up blank. I started to think yesterday that this was initially some kind of bug, or food poisoning or IBS related problem that has triggered off my anxiety again.
I now have an almost constant need to urinate as well as the need for a BM despite the lack of substance ;) And am feeling a little panicked and emotional. What is more interesting since I started to accept the fact that I probably have a lot of anxiety surrounding this condition the more the condition has eased.
I'm now starting to think the actual physical condition is pretty much gone and whatever residual effects I am feeling is due to the anxiety I have created around the condition.
I just wanted to get this out and see if anyone has any thoughts or opinions on it, I'm a big believer of talking and openness
...its hardly brief but a cut it way down from what I originally had here :)
Be Well
from browsing around the last hour or so I can see some great resources here so I thought I'd better get myself signed up.
I'll try to keep it pretty brief with a back story cause I could just about write a book at this point ;)
30 year old male living in Australia.
After suffering with a life time of anxiety I thought I had my problem pretty much under control until a few days ago. For the last year I have been doing lots of meditation and Reiki, breathing exercises and self help work. So I haven't really suffered from anxiety in a year. Despite having 2 big operations, which I thought was the acid test. I got through them both without a panic attack, in fact with a strange sense of detachment, hardly bothered me at all.
So at this point you can imagine I'm feeling pretty confident that I've sorted out my anxiety problem. Well...not quite...
I was still a little careful about what I ate and drank, as a big symptom of anxiety for me is stomach upset and nausea. Anyway last week I had to take a course of antibiotics for a throat and chest infection. No big deal, or so I thought at the time. The antibiotics didn't agree with me and gave me pretty severe diarrhoea. Dealt with it and got through the course. Saturday I finished the course and Sunday was feeling good. So Sunday night I start to feel quite unwell and the diarrhoea starts again, by Monday morning I was in quite bad pain with an urgency to go all the time, not that anything was really coming out cause I hadn't really eaten. Anyway the pain went away but the sensation to go didn't.
This lasted a couple of days and a couple of doctors visits. Anyway had a colonoscopy today to check for various causes, came up blank. I started to think yesterday that this was initially some kind of bug, or food poisoning or IBS related problem that has triggered off my anxiety again.
I now have an almost constant need to urinate as well as the need for a BM despite the lack of substance ;) And am feeling a little panicked and emotional. What is more interesting since I started to accept the fact that I probably have a lot of anxiety surrounding this condition the more the condition has eased.
I'm now starting to think the actual physical condition is pretty much gone and whatever residual effects I am feeling is due to the anxiety I have created around the condition.
I just wanted to get this out and see if anyone has any thoughts or opinions on it, I'm a big believer of talking and openness
...its hardly brief but a cut it way down from what I originally had here :)
Be Well