Needs to be reassured

Don't sabotage yourself Wiki- focus on the happiness you have that you have a new job in a field you love. Sometimes I find I confuse excitement with anxiety...like I am going on vacation to a tropical island which is my dream place to be and would love to live on one but instead of feeling happy I am picturing anxiety during the flight, family problems occurring while I am too far away, etc.
Deep breathes! Everything is going your way. Enjoy! Force yourself to play the bass. Make notes about what you wish to accomplish on the tour. How old is your son? I get the feeling you are young and he must be small. Nothing brings joy like seeing the world thru a child's eyes. Spend as much time with him as you can and laugh heartily!
Nightmares suck. When you awake- get out of bed and shake it off. Dreams are not real. Divert your attention- even if you have to get up and read a little bit before going back to bed.

I wish you all the best- on my way to bed and will put you in my prayers for anxiety relief and a good night's sleep free from bad dreams

Awwww Wiki- thanks for the compliment and I'm happy if I have offered you some peace in your life. I am actually suffering right now from...what should I call it? Performance anxiety (?) at work and feel like I am lacking and failing and this the source of my current anxiety.
Being able to make you and others feel better makes me feel better about myself.


Futon sleeping is a sure way to wake up stiff! They just don't offer the kind of support needed.
Five year olds are fun! They can tell some really funny jokes can't they?

Hope you have a day of peace and laughter!

I didnt have chest pains or incomforts in the last 2 days... Today i woke up with a huge headache that lasted all day and it stressed me a lot and now i have that and chest feels heavy left side and my left arm.is stiff... Doesnt help my anxiety... Today also was the hottest day since like 5 years ago it was almost 100 degrees which we arent used to here... Well all of this to say that im nervous right now... I hate feeling like this!!! How long does it take for stuff like that to go away once you stop stressing... I dont know what to do anymore i dont get it... I do all the exercises you guys told me to do... I often read the leaflet to calm me down... Breathing exercises etc... I don't understand...

Hi WikiDom,

Physical symptoms of anxiety get to me as well. Unfortunately unlike a head ache where we can take Advil and it goes away, the physical symptoms will come and go whenever they feel like it. When I would get a chest pain, I would fear heart attack or stroke. But I've never had a heart attack or stroke after I feel this pain so it somewhat reassures me I am ok. You know what kind of helps - allowing the pain from anxiety do it's thing. I try not I react. I welcome it, breathe slowly, and wait for it to leave. I feel a little shook up after but it tells me "SEE YOURE OKAY, you just needed to relax!"

I do a lot of physical activity and get sore muscles all the time especially my back on y left side. When I feel this pain I automatically think it's a heart attack and it never occurs to me that it was due to me doin handstands! My thinking isn't right when I'm experiencing anxiety.

I find distracting myself helps. I watch a lot of Fresh Prince it makes me laugh a lot

We are here for you Wiki...if you hit any rough spots...but I am sure that you will do just fine! :)

Enjoy some 'You' time!

S.C.

And justbreathe thanks for the reply and Fresh Prince does rule!

Hi Wiki..
We almost have the same feeling and thinking,, except for the fact I was thinking of different serious illnesses besides from heart attack or stroke. I have many physical symptoms and sensations, which made me think of the worst case scenario. But it's been 3 months since I had anxiety, nothing worsens! I'm still able to run, jump, go shopping and do whatever I can. I don't have fever, or severe pain that I could not tolerate.. You see, anxiety makes us believe that we are dying.. And as for me, though I know that I have anxiety, there are still times that I over-worry! So, I really understand you.
My physical symptoms are back pain, neck pain, chest pain and tightness, headache, heart palpitation, arm pain, throat clearing, muscle pain in diff areas of my body, muscle twitching, and excessing worrying and thinking! I also experienced morning anxiety where the moment I opened my eyes, I already try to scan my symptoms, and get so frustrated because I still have them! Everyday I look forward to feel synptom free but I disappoint myself, so I try not to expect.,, i accepted the fact that it will get better, but I need to be patient. And so are you. We can do it!!!! Just accept it and if the symptoms are severe and not tolerable, you can visit the doctor just to make sure. But if you already have many reassurance from the doctors, recall those statements and tests., they are valuable evidences that you are fine. Lifestyle changes has a big role! :)
God speed! :)

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Still feeling very anxious tonight having pressure in my mod chests i hate that... It alaays stresses me and im alone tonight and ill be until 1 am tonight (its 6:40pm now) it stresses me cause my chest is squeezing a lot im trying to change my mind nothing works... Im about to get so pissed at this darn anxiety... Its prolly axid reflux since ive been having a hard time going to the bathroom partial constipation i guess... And i had a migraine for three days that stressed me like crazy... So stiffed chest is kinda normal i guess... This does suck though... I need your love and support tonight i think cause im about to go crazy...

Hey guys, having another attack tonight... I feel like crap my whole body aches... Im nervous... There was a problem with the website i work for and we lost all of our whole database so i spent the whole night recovering my stuff with google cache and the whole day reposting everything... But i feel anxious and my mid chest burns again... I feel pressure in my whole chest and my body aches my heart somewhat burns too... Or it flutters i dont really know... It beats funny... I feel wozzy when i walk and i feel out breath... Even when sitting down... Guys im so tired of living in groundhog day... darn it i wanna be better my left arm also feels squeezed btw... So yeah i fear heart attack even tho i had 5 ecg and saw the cardiologist like 2 months ago... Being nervous keeps me from eating and drinking properly and i think i got dysphagia also cause ive always had trouble eating im outside right now cant wait to go back home... I never do anything anymore... I stay sitted all the time cause i fear feeling bad... What the hell is wrong with me... Im going on tour in a week... I gotta get better soon!!! My upper back near the center and the shoulders hurts too like... So the question pops up again... Am i dying....

Hi guys,

How are you all? Been a while since i've posted... I was doing a little better but now i need your advices/support lately i have started feeling this pressure in my chest again and like pinching and strain too some people told me it could thoracic chest pains, others say it could be a nerve that has been pinched... Others say it can be my lungs and others say im dying by people i mean people from a help line i call... I have been tested for the heart and everything is fine... I often have numbness in my left arm which worries me a lot and it is often cold too... I spoke to a psychologist and his opinion was a pinched nerve from bas posture, lack of vitamins from bad diet and of course bad anxiety... I dot know what to think anymore im scared... I wake up in the morning with that... Sometimes it goes away for days but then comrs back for weeks... Im desperate...

Hi guys...

Me again... First of all thank you mysweetpanda for your great reply it really did help me... Of course now that i was feeling a little better, something else came to my attention... It seems like most if the time i feel like my heart is how can i say... Irregular... Yet again i don't know how an irregular heartbeat feels but i'm often under that impression... I used to not eat very well which i am improving slowly right now but with panic attacks occuring everyday it isn't an easy task... Anyway i started taking B complete vitamins and i drink lots of ensure... Been taking the vitamins for 3 days now... I know vitamins take time to act on the body like a week to a week and a half to show some improvement... But it makes me nervous a lot yet again also i wake up in the morning and first thing i do is check up on myself... My eyes aren't even opened that i already start checking... I'm tired of living like this... I had ecg done so if anything woukd have been wrong tge cardiologist would have seen it... Yet again that was three months ago... Lots can change in three months... But last thursday i had managed to come to a state of perfect calm... I was back to my normal self but the next day i got out of ensures and didnt have time to go buy any for three days and this thing started on the third day... Been going on ever since... I had my kid with me this weekend... Of course since he is young it's a little more work and yes it stresses me a bit mostly because i fear i'll have an attack while he is there... All of this to ask... Can anxiety do all that? Am i sick? Am i dying? Why was i all better and then all of a sudden BAM! I feel like crap and i feel it's getting worst but i am an hypocondriac so maybe it's making it worst... Please help me... Please... I am desperate

Hi there. I've had so many of the same issues as you. I feel like I could have written many of your posts. I still struggle with HA and some days are worse than others. I had a bad few weeks recently that started with an unexplained few weeks of extreme fatuige, loss of appetite, hair loss, shaking... all with no explanation. I didnt feel anxious during it, or before it. At some point I started thinking too much about what it could be because the doctor told me they could find nothing wrong with me. I fell into a spiral of extreme anxiety, depression, worsening symptoms, new symptoms. Pretty much every symptom I had google told me was a heart attack or heart disease or something else terrible. For a couple weeks I was almost sure that I was having a heart attack and that no one cared. I went to the ER twice, had at least 4 ecg's, tons of blood work. What ended up snapping me back to reality was the last ER visit. I woke up during the night feeling panicky. It kept building and building until suddenly my entire right arm went completely numb and started to hurt and felt tight. I was SURE it was happening! Went to the ER.. perfectly healthy. They offered me a drug for anxiety but I declined. I went home frustrated and embarrassed.

I saw my doctor later that day who wanted to prescribe me a cocktail of meds to calm me down and realized that more than likely it was my fault that all of this was happening. As I calmed down I began to see real reasons for most of my discomforts.. a new matress pad I bought a month prior which was expensive and comfy turned out to be the cause of my arm, neck, chest and jaw pain. Within a couple days of ditching it all the pains went away. Calming down also improved my air hunger, dizziness and fatuige.

I'm honestly surprised that stress can cause so much discomfort. It's a really hard thing to accept. I try and remind myself that of all the time I've spent worrying and self checking I could have easily ignored my body sensations and had a good time because guess what, nothing I worried about ever happened. It wasnt my worry that stopped it from happening, or my self checking. All that stuff was just a waste of time!

I still struggle though. I have a blood pressure moniter, a heart rate moniter, a measuring tape. All things I use to try to reassure myself. So unhealthy I know! HA seems be be a tough thing to break out of.

I know for me a trigger is being alone and feeling unsafe. It's something I need to see a therapist about to try to understand better, but I think its the root cause for most of my issues. You may find that there is something causing yours as well. Mine really kicked in when my kids were born and I think that is significant.

Sorry for the novel! I just felt I could relate.

WD

You are doing the right things...and making postive changes and progress...it just takes time...

...and healing is not always a linear line...there are detours and some rough times along the journey.

Keep up the coping skills that you are currently working on. They will start to help, and the bad days will get fewer and farther between.

Keep posting with us, and we will keep you encouraged. You are making progress...I can read it in your posts! :)

S.C.