Anxiety Support Group
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...
Just to let you guys know, I am a Nutrition major and during class my teacher started going over the different sensations felt when a food allergy is present.
Well, don't you know that the symptoms closely mimic those of anxiety! I asked her if she saw a lot of people mis-diagnosed with anxiety when all they really had was an allergy of some sort and she said she had seen a few in that situation.
My aunt a few years back started feeling "funny". She explained it as if the top of her head was floating above her and she would get very dizzy and disaccociated feeling and have to rest. Occasionally she would get shaky from it as well.
Her son has anxiety disorder and she thought for sure she had developed it as well because she had a lot of stressful things going on in her life at the time.
The last doctor she saw was an allergist and told her that basically all the foods she was eating, she was allergic to!! Citrus fruit(she was drinking a glass of grapefruit juice a day), dairy, chocolate, caffeine, gluten...and the list goes on.
Needless to say, for piece of mind I am seeing an allergist this Friday. It never hurts to get tested...just wanted to share in case anyone else was interested:)
Well, don't you know that the symptoms closely mimic those of anxiety! I asked her if she saw a lot of people mis-diagnosed with anxiety when all they really had was an allergy of some sort and she said she had seen a few in that situation.
My aunt a few years back started feeling "funny". She explained it as if the top of her head was floating above her and she would get very dizzy and disaccociated feeling and have to rest. Occasionally she would get shaky from it as well.
Her son has anxiety disorder and she thought for sure she had developed it as well because she had a lot of stressful things going on in her life at the time.
The last doctor she saw was an allergist and told her that basically all the foods she was eating, she was allergic to!! Citrus fruit(she was drinking a glass of grapefruit juice a day), dairy, chocolate, caffeine, gluten...and the list goes on.
Needless to say, for piece of mind I am seeing an allergist this Friday. It never hurts to get tested...just wanted to share in case anyone else was interested:)
thanks for that info ,its worth looking into. ive often wondered, ive just bought a book called the food and mood guide although i havent got round to reading it yet,
but i think i know what they will say,
no chocolate, no caffeine, no alcohol, no sugary stuff etc etc etc all the bad stuff that i eat all the time lol
I just personally want to check for actual food allergies too make sure what I am feeling isn't simply caused by something I can delete from my diet.
Think about it...if you are feeling weak physically from not eating right/well/enough, don't you feel like a mess mentally too? Sluggish, irritable, always tired, etc.
I have actually had some very spooky and unintentional weight loss that no doctor can figure out. That's why the anxiety scares me so bad because when I am stressed I don't eat and I definately cannot afford to lose more weight at this point.
I wish I could say I am a healthy weight, but I'm not. I had a period of going through the anxiety where when I'd eat I'd get a horrible painful feeling in the pit of my stomach.
That experience lasted a while and is still floating around somewhere in my subconscious I believe because even now I fear that feeling coming back.
I do not hold myself back however...I eat cake, cookies, chips, pizza...whatever I want basically, but I am still losing weight.
I have had just about every test imaginable run and there is never any answers. I have gone from 170 lbs. (I am 5'7") to 105 lbs. in about a year and a half without consciously trying...no exercising, I don't starve myself or purge...so no clue.
I am hoping maybe an allergy could be causing some sort of rejection by my body to not absorb fats correctly?? Guess time will tell...