kiwi
05-24-2008, 08:35 PM
hello everyone,
i've been spending a lot of time on this forum reading posts the last couple of weeks and i want to say thanks to you all, i think it's helped me a lot reading about other people in similar situations to me, and you all have so many ideas on what to do to help yourselves, i've found some really good tips which i am trying out!
i've suffered from anxiety and mild panic attacks my whole life and developed depression when i was about 18. fortunately my best friend worked out was wrong and pushed me to go see a counsellor. i spent 2 years going to see her on and off, and 2 and a half years on medication before i decided to wean myself off it. for the last 4 or 5 years things have been fine, i still had minor anxiety every now and then but it would always get to a certain point then ease off again, like something was blocking it.
about 3 months ago i started using a new form of contraception and found myself feeling sad, having panic attacks, generally not being too happy. so i changed back to my old contraception, but a couple of weeks later i started developing some funny symptoms. i made the mistake of googling these and became convinced that i had MS (cyberchondria is bad)!
my symptoms included a feeling of being unbalanced, nausea, a weird kind of numb feeling in the left side of my face, fatigue, an occasional tingly feeling in my arms and legs. i went to several doctors who all said my symptoms were very vague, and i had a lot of tests which all came up with nothing. finally one of them told me she thought it was very unlikely that i had MS. by this time i had worked myself into a major state of panic, so she gave me some oxazepam to calm me down and put me back on the same medication i was on a few years ago.
this worked for me last time so i'm pretty optimistic, i'm also going to see a psychologist in 2 weeks. the first week has been tough, i've been feeling worse and have been waking up before my alarm in the mornings with a feeling of dread, accompanied by nausea which is really starting to get annoying, although i've been reading about training your brain not to think about whether you're anxious or not so i'm going to give that a go. also i'm fairly sure this feeling will subside once the pills really kick in. in the meantime i'm exercising, eating foods which don't upset my stomach, trying to stay busy, although all this time on the internet has been affecting my productivity at work quite a bit!
speaking of work, better get back to it!
thanks again everyone, hope you are all having a nice sunday (or saturday night) wherever you are!
i've been spending a lot of time on this forum reading posts the last couple of weeks and i want to say thanks to you all, i think it's helped me a lot reading about other people in similar situations to me, and you all have so many ideas on what to do to help yourselves, i've found some really good tips which i am trying out!
i've suffered from anxiety and mild panic attacks my whole life and developed depression when i was about 18. fortunately my best friend worked out was wrong and pushed me to go see a counsellor. i spent 2 years going to see her on and off, and 2 and a half years on medication before i decided to wean myself off it. for the last 4 or 5 years things have been fine, i still had minor anxiety every now and then but it would always get to a certain point then ease off again, like something was blocking it.
about 3 months ago i started using a new form of contraception and found myself feeling sad, having panic attacks, generally not being too happy. so i changed back to my old contraception, but a couple of weeks later i started developing some funny symptoms. i made the mistake of googling these and became convinced that i had MS (cyberchondria is bad)!
my symptoms included a feeling of being unbalanced, nausea, a weird kind of numb feeling in the left side of my face, fatigue, an occasional tingly feeling in my arms and legs. i went to several doctors who all said my symptoms were very vague, and i had a lot of tests which all came up with nothing. finally one of them told me she thought it was very unlikely that i had MS. by this time i had worked myself into a major state of panic, so she gave me some oxazepam to calm me down and put me back on the same medication i was on a few years ago.
this worked for me last time so i'm pretty optimistic, i'm also going to see a psychologist in 2 weeks. the first week has been tough, i've been feeling worse and have been waking up before my alarm in the mornings with a feeling of dread, accompanied by nausea which is really starting to get annoying, although i've been reading about training your brain not to think about whether you're anxious or not so i'm going to give that a go. also i'm fairly sure this feeling will subside once the pills really kick in. in the meantime i'm exercising, eating foods which don't upset my stomach, trying to stay busy, although all this time on the internet has been affecting my productivity at work quite a bit!
speaking of work, better get back to it!
thanks again everyone, hope you are all having a nice sunday (or saturday night) wherever you are!