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Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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MorningSadness00 11/08/2011

I have this very extreme fear that im going to have or had a stroke.

I have numbness in my hands. and on the left side of my face, and my tongue feels numb. This has been going on for a week. I am sooo anxious about it, and i think i am having or had a stroke.
I am only 22 years old.
I have also been experiencing dizzy/lightheaded, headaches, and body twitches..
I dont feel like eating, i dont feel like drinking because i am so afraid i had a stroke. My body feels so stiff almost like i cant move.

I am able to lift my arms up in the air with no problem, i am able to smile and stick my tongue out with no problems too. but i am still convinced i had a stroke or am going to have one. I am very scared. I dont know what to do. i dont want to die. :(.

deleted_user 11/08/2011

Still having those sensations? Hope you know it is not a stroke. Focus on other things. Or face your fear and say "Even though I feel scared, I love and accept myself". Go to YouTube and look into EFT.

Practice some progressive muscle relaxation too. Do it morning and evening. You are tensing muscles you are not even aware of.

Visit a chiropractor (soft manipulation). You may have a pinched nerve. Adjustments also help anxiety because your nervous system is being balanced.

MorningSadness00 11/08/2011

Its just so hard to believe its not a stroke. These symptoms and sensations are so scary.
I finally had something to eat a minuet ago and my tongue is tingly, and its making me an anxious mess. I really wish i could just get over this fear.

deleted_user 11/09/2011

You have blood vessel dystonia. I have same thing too. It feels like your head is about to explode and like you going to die. That is jump in blood presure. Need check blood presure. Mine is going 120/90. It is spazm of vessel. Sometimes 140/100. Worse I had was 90/80-that was situation when I could truly be paralized (but I got into this condition over my merital problems which I can not fix). Usually if you experience something like that you should take someting to reduce blood presure and dialate arteries. I took some nitrosorbide previously now as it does not help me anymore I take some papaverine. Ask your doctor for some thing which dialates arteries in such cases. Also something calming like ativan will help. Usualy you are not close to death in such condition though it does seems so. I suffer same like you. Every day feel like I will die today. Today I discovere new thing Thioridazine (Melleril, Novoridazine, Thioril). One pill reduced my anxiety considerably and I have very bad case of anxiety. Practically paralized by it. Can not move, afraid of stroke every day, cry every day for 7 months.

deleted_user 11/09/2011

Also when I had numbnes in my hands I had extreme panic. My father (psychiatrist) just gave me valeriana. That is your heart reacts on panic. You are too young to die on the spot from it. Me too (I am 32). We will suffer lol. Heart still strong in this age but it is sure scary feeling. Experience it every day and it does not get easier. Only thing you can do is to reduce symptoms (which I wrote how). To stop it completely you have remove reason for this kind of stress from your life. Since I can not remove reason (can not divorce husband) God knows how long will have to suffer.

MorningSadness00 11/09/2011

Im still scared about this stuff :(

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