Do Anxiety Symptoms Change? Posted: 06-27-04 20:56pm
Hi everyone
i was wondering if you could help me with
my question.
I have had anxiety with panic attacks for
the last 3 years. When I first
experienced this I had heart palpatations,
dizziness, diarrohea, twitching,
uncontrollable shaking and a feeling of
unreality. These symptoms became
"controllable" through counselling and
meditation.
Now I have been experiencing a different
set of symptoms such as "air hunger",
tightness in my throat, tightness in my
chest, heaps of phlegm, still get the
palpitations and twitching plus ringing in
my ears and dizziness. I have been unable
to control these through the normal
methods.
When I asked my doctor if symptoms change
I think he thought I was asking if
symptoms are different patient to patient,
not different from the one patient...
It's almost like my body has realised I
have worked out how to control the initial
symptoms so is making up new ones to
"attack" me with. Unfortunately I had a
horrible reaction to the aropax and
inderal they tried with me, so bad that I
ended up in hospital and i'm one of those
"highly addictive" people that would get
hooked on anything addictive in about 5
secs so can't go there...
Does this make sense? Has anyone else
experienced this change in symptoms?
Thanks
ellie
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qt3
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 264
Posted: 06-30-04 13:19pm
Not uncommon at all. The most common
symptoms are lack of air symptioms like
you described and heart symptoms. I
really think cbt is what you need as that
has eliminated all my panic and in a
remarkably short period of time after
years of suffering. I replied to your
other post on cbt already. Good luck you
can and will get better if you apply
yourself to the tools in cbt :d
q
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ellie
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Australia
Posted: 06-30-04 18:43pm
Thanks q, I was giving up hope that anyone
would respond to my post
i have an appointment with my doctor
tomorrow so hopefully he can rule out any
thing else as well.
It is frustrating cos I feel like a
hypochondriac going into his office every
couple of months with another set of
symptoms. I suppose I am just worried
that something serious could come up and I
keep putting it off thinking it's part of
the anxiety
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sandyallen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
Posted: 06-30-04 20:13pm
Talk to him, like you are talking to us,
write it down, so you will not leave
anything out because you might go into the
Dr. And have the same thing happen.
Yes, anxiety symptoms do change!
Sincerely,
sandy
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qt3
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 264
Posted: 07-02-04 15:34pm
sandyallen
wrote:
talk to him, like you are
talking to us, write it down, so you will
not leave anything out because you might
go into the Dr. And have the same thing
happen. Yes, anxiety symptoms do
change!
Sincerely,
sandy
this is excellent advice! Please follow
it
ellie-
you're welcome for the reply. I hope you
are able to find something that works for
you whether it ends up being cbt or
something else :d I not only felt like a
hypochondriac I think I was one for
year!
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