About three months ago I started feeling
funny. I was having upper right abdominal
pain and nasea and back pain. I was the
type of person that had to be dragged to
the doctor when I was sick. But I knew
something was wrong with me so I went to
the doctor. He said that it was just
pulled muscles and made me feel stupid for
thinking anything else. I believed him at
first but the symptoms kept coming back.
I went to doctor after doctor. They told
me anything from pulled muscles to stress
to vaginal infection. Mostly they told me
it was stress. Finally, I got a doctor to
do a ct. He spotted gallstones. I had
laparascopic surgery. Ever since my
surgery, I have been having problems. I
have these headaches. When they come on I
feel extremely tired and dizzy and
disoriented then my chest starts to hurt
and feel very heavy. Sometimes I have
back pain. I have been to the doctor or
e.R. About everyother week. Alot of
times on the weekends I end up feeling
like i'm going to die and I go to the
emergency room. There is never anything
wrong with me. I think my family doctor
thinks i'm crazy. He tells me it is
anxiety. It just seems like I can't
control it. I am constantly thinking
about my health and my symptoms and what
terrible disease I could have. When I try
not to think about it, it only makes it
worse. The headaches and such seem to
come on out of nowhere though, when I sit
down at night and I am doing nothing.
Does anyone know what could be wrong with
me? Is it some kind of mental disorder,
anxiety, ......?
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jenweric
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 12 Location: pa
Reply Posted: 02-14-06 22:17pm
Hi,
i think your doctor is right about your
anxiety. Stress and anxiety will destroy
you physically and mentally. Don't let
anxiety take control of you. It did for
me until I fought it. Try taking on new
responsibilities at work or take on new
hobbies. Take on something that will
occupy your mind. You have to be very
strong and it's important to have a person
that will listen to you when you need
him/her to. What really worked for me,
like a miracle, was starting an exercise
routine. When you exercise, you can feel
all the bad feelings leave your body.
It's like a type of cleansing.
Just think: life is too short to worry
about everything. Don's sweat the small
things.
