pluperfecthell
05-24-2013, 10:12 AM
Hi, I'm new here and I'm only 16. Let me start off by saying that I've been experiencing anxiety for years, but my mom has just brushed it off and didn't get me help. After what I've experienced this month, she's finally agreed to take me to a psychiatrist.
This is my third week of feeling like utter crap. It all started when I woke up one morning with a pain at the back of my head. When I felt around, there was a lump. My best friend told me it was small and red, and not to worry about it, as did everyone else. It felt sore and hurt even more when I would look up because that put pressure on it. This of course sent me into panic mode thinking something was very wrong with me. I could barely eat or sleep due to my anxiety. Within a few days, it was gone. But then my neck really started to hurt. Then it moved down to my shoulders. Now basically my whole spine hurts. Last night, out of the blue, I got this pressure in my forehead like someone was piling bricks on it and I thought I was going to black out. Felt really dizzy too. Laying down did not help. It moved from my forehead, to the top of my scalp, to behind my ears, etc etc. I now also have this pressure on the left side of my nose and my ear. My face has been feeling tingly and like it's going numb, but I can still feel it. I also get this tingly/numb feeling in my scalp. I get it on the palm of my left hand a lot too, sometimes a random pain will shoot up my forearm. I feel as if my coordination of that hand has gotten worse. I've noticed my hands shake more, but not to the point where it's very noticeable to others. I feel as if my grip has gotten weaker. My right thigh and calves cramp randomly and if I flex any of my muscles, they begin to shake. I just generally feel weak and like my whole body, including my head, is vibrating even when I'm laying down. I get random muscle twitches. I was diagnosed with pretty bad anemia a week ago and I've been taking an iron supplement, and I thought I was getting better until last night.
I don't know what's wrong with me and I hate feeling like this. I want to cry. I'm so scared that something neurological is wrong and that I'm going to die. I don't know if it's stress related or anxiety related or something more serious. My doctor doesn't exactly take me very seriously because she's aware that I'm a hypochondriac. I don't know, I just need some reassurance that I'm not going to drop dead or that something life-threatening is wrong with me...
This is my third week of feeling like utter crap. It all started when I woke up one morning with a pain at the back of my head. When I felt around, there was a lump. My best friend told me it was small and red, and not to worry about it, as did everyone else. It felt sore and hurt even more when I would look up because that put pressure on it. This of course sent me into panic mode thinking something was very wrong with me. I could barely eat or sleep due to my anxiety. Within a few days, it was gone. But then my neck really started to hurt. Then it moved down to my shoulders. Now basically my whole spine hurts. Last night, out of the blue, I got this pressure in my forehead like someone was piling bricks on it and I thought I was going to black out. Felt really dizzy too. Laying down did not help. It moved from my forehead, to the top of my scalp, to behind my ears, etc etc. I now also have this pressure on the left side of my nose and my ear. My face has been feeling tingly and like it's going numb, but I can still feel it. I also get this tingly/numb feeling in my scalp. I get it on the palm of my left hand a lot too, sometimes a random pain will shoot up my forearm. I feel as if my coordination of that hand has gotten worse. I've noticed my hands shake more, but not to the point where it's very noticeable to others. I feel as if my grip has gotten weaker. My right thigh and calves cramp randomly and if I flex any of my muscles, they begin to shake. I just generally feel weak and like my whole body, including my head, is vibrating even when I'm laying down. I get random muscle twitches. I was diagnosed with pretty bad anemia a week ago and I've been taking an iron supplement, and I thought I was getting better until last night.
I don't know what's wrong with me and I hate feeling like this. I want to cry. I'm so scared that something neurological is wrong and that I'm going to die. I don't know if it's stress related or anxiety related or something more serious. My doctor doesn't exactly take me very seriously because she's aware that I'm a hypochondriac. I don't know, I just need some reassurance that I'm not going to drop dead or that something life-threatening is wrong with me...