the struggle con'ts & i need help

hi everyone , i have been off the forum for a few weeks , just have been very numb to everything
as for my anxiety well , its still a battle , i just dont even talk about it anymore , most of you know my story and everything i been through as well as every doc , test and procedure i have had , so i know its nothing wrong with me medically last two years i have had so much checked out that its not even funny , heart , head , body , stomach , living in the er , blood work , the works , ..... as well as my son having leukemia and going through everything with him as well , having no place to live , no job , no money , etc but my son is well and he is in remission and enjoying his life i must say , while i cont to struggle , i have a nice place to live , a new job , i have a new love interest , and things are pretty ok i must say , except for my anxiety , well at least i can leave the house now , although i still only local places , like my job is around the corner , the market is across the street , everything is very local , now if i have to go to the next town , im a nervous reck and my mind starts with the with if's , i just want to live and enjoy life , with no chest discomfort or pain and no headaches , no tingling in my fingers and toes , no nervous feelings , no what if thinking , i do ok at work but have to pop an ativan , last week i was on my way to work and i had chest pain so much so i went to er , and they did cardiac test kept me on machine , etc i was ok as usual thank God, and i went back to work , im just tired of feeling this way last 5 days i had the worst headache ever , if its not my chest its my head , i have tired many pills and cant stay on them longer then a week , so last night i started my zoloft 25 mg and now headache gone , and now my chest is bothering me , uhhhhh my fingers are toes and very tingly , even before the zoloft , my back hurts up and down my lft shoulder and arm aches , my chest sore , its sore without the zoloft and when i take the zoloft its seems to get even more sore , or is it just me , my chest burns , i feel off balance , i be forgetting stuff , i have no interest in things , hard to focus , my psy doc really wants me to try the zoloft and stick with it , so i did start last night 25mg after a week go up to 50mg , im praying i can give it
a fair chance , my neck hurts , i just dont understand why im still suffering , i really dont , whats wrong with me , will this ever go away , i hear people say , one day it went away , or one day i woke up and i was myself again , i just started therapy and it was great this was my first visit and its seems i found a good one this time around , after going to lots and group as well .... im so scared that by taking these meds what am i doing to my body .... im just so over this , ....any advice pls help .....any zoloft users ? do you feel sick or funny when first starting ? chest sore ? hurting ? ....

Im not a Zoloft user but I use Prozac and they are the same really. When your dosage changes you will have more anxiety/body symptoms. Give it time for you to adjust to the medicine. I'm going thru the same thing right now.

took cymbalta years ago for depression and anxiety, had to quit due to side effects,now and days I am taking natural supplements like GABA, L-THEANINE, L- TRYPTOPHAN and jogging.Try this supplements and see if this can helped lessen your symptoms.

I am not one to speak for the medications. But anxiety is quite a cross to bare. Continue to pray to Our Lord for help. And I will pray for you in a special way. I will say that all of your symptoms truly do sound like anxiety to me that's for sure. What you must accept is that you are perfectly healthy and nothing can beat that news! I do not know your whole story but I do know a lot about anxiety. I to have dealt with bad health anxiety. And the doctors and chest pains and tightness and the whole works. But once I came to accept what my doctors have said to me and realized that what I feel is anxiety. I have no fear. Especially that I know that God is always by my side. I need not to fear. Sorry if I wasn't much help but hang in there you will be okay!

I will pray for your son as well

God Bless

Jocipher

I'm going to share my $0.02 with you, and I want to make a statement in advance, that I'm making this specifically to you, with regards to and including your Faith and belief system, and in no way am I trying to,-- nor would I ever,-- try to proselytize, and no intention is being made to offend anyone or infringe on their personal and private belief systems.

I guess I'll start off by saying I take Prozac (and I've been "on and off" this medication since it very first came out),....and sure, I've tried others as well, but they weren't for me. Plus, I take Xanax. Again, I've taken it for decades at varying dosages, always on an "as needed" basis.

This combination has worked for me. Also, for me, part of so-called "over-coming" aspects of my anxiety included accepting that these symptoms were in fact anxiety and a package deal. I had choices to make. I could let anxiety control every aspect of my life and keep me living in a cave (and believe me when I share with you that across the decades, yes, I have spent years living in caves trying to isolate myself trying to avoid stress and triggers, and as a means of what I thought was "control" over my life).

The other option is to choose Life. It may take a buddy system, someone who knows, and even if they don't understand or have anxiety, they have enough compassion to be with you while you try new things and test the waters, like driving to the next down and then back home (as a type of home-work assignment). Don't wait until you MUST travel elsewhere (that's added stress). Take drives on your own time as an adventure.

And lastly, for me as well, yes it's true, I had "breakthroughs" where the fog just lifted. "ALL" anxiety doesn't just go away, but portions of it does. IF....IF....you work on it. One of those revealing events occurred when I went to Church. I'm Roman Catholic, and my personal Faith runs to my core.

Having said that, after my 20's or so, I stopped attending Church regularly.

When I was at one of my lowest points ever, it was actually my therapist who suggested I go to Church. It sounds so basic and yet it had never occurred to me! I went to Confession, I went to Church, I received Communion.....(and learned how much the terminology and phraseology had changed....but I still say things the "old" way)....

A light was shed on me and I could physically feel something lift out of my body and a segment of what I had been carrying around as anxiety was taken from me. The tears flowed, my body, mind and spirit literally FELT different,.....relieved.

No, the experience didn't make me all better or cure me. But the experience, for me, was a catalyst.

I mention it because perhaps it's something you may want to look into??

Please keep posting with us.....










M.

Emma, these fine people are giving you what worked for them,
most of us are Spiritual and I know you are also, this is what
pulled me out of a ten year downward spiral, there is something
about a human being that is more than just the animal man,
we have something deeper, but you and I have addressed this
before and I know you do believe, so Reach into your Spirit and
pull out the gifts you have been given. Peace to you and Son,

Larry ***