New to Anxiety - Any Tips! Posted: 08-31-05 02:08am
I have been told that I have anxiety.
It started in march when I returned to
work fulltime after having my first child
(she was 8 months when I returned).
I started off just feeling a little dizzy,
blurred vision! Then I started having
chest pain, heart racing, heart missing
beats, breathlessness, fatigue for days,
aches and pains mainly in the upper back,
high abdominal pain, lump in my throat etc
- all the symptoms I am told of anxiety.
Test I have had done are - stress test,
ultra sound of the heart, brain and chest
scan, camera in both ends!, blood tests,
thyroid test, urine tests, 24 hour holter
monitor, ultra sound on upper abdominal
area (all), lower abdominal (all)....
Have I missed anything - numerous ecg's
while having an episode. All have come
back clear!
I am on xanax 0.25mg twice a day.
I have a couple of weeks of really good
and then I will wake up feeling crap and
this last for a couple of days sometime
longer. Is this anxiety!
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gemstone83x
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 57 Location: uk
Posted: 08-31-05 16:54pm
Hello bec *shakes hand*
its sounds like the doctors have really
given you a full mot.
Im sorry to tell you, this but anxiety in
itself really can make you feel a bit
"crappy"! If your new to the
medications then maybe its a side-effect?
Maybe you could ask about a medication
that would focus on the symptoms of
anxiety that doesnt leave you feeling
drowsy. A good example of these types
of medications is propranolol.
Propranolol works for me as it doesnt make
me feel tired but it has completly
eliminated the most uncomfortable symptom
in my case, which was palpatations.
Last edited by gemstone83x on 08-01-06 09:56am; edited 1 time in total
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gemstone83x
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 57 Location: uk
And a Suggestion... Posted: 08-31-05 16:57pm
Ive started learning how to knit lately
because its something that relaxs me and I
can do when im at home and watching my
twins. Im just knitting squares at the
moment.
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 08-31-05 19:06pm
Thanks for taking the time to reply to
me.
The tiredness was before I started my
xanax. I still do get tired - I think
that it is because my whole body gets so
tense when I experience an attack.
Another question I have is - some days I
have constant ache's and blury vision (not
really blury just cloudy, I suppose this
is how to discribe it) but no other
symptoms, is this something others are
experiencing too. Or I can be breathless
but no other symptoms?
Thanks again for giving me some insight
into how others deal with anxiety and what
helps them etc
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