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...
I do. I was diagnosed many years ago. I had it checked a few years ago and was told it was a "benign murmur...mitral valve prolapse" meanwile, I've always had anxiety but it's gotten worse over the years.
I was researching it on line and I stumbled on a few websites that said people with Mitral Valve prolapse are more likely to have anxiety/panic disorder. I sort of forgot about the heart murmur till I read that...now the wheels are turning...I wonder if that has anything to do with my current situation?? Just curious if anyone else has it or thinks the anxiety is worse because of it.
I was researching it on line and I stumbled on a few websites that said people with Mitral Valve prolapse are more likely to have anxiety/panic disorder. I sort of forgot about the heart murmur till I read that...now the wheels are turning...I wonder if that has anything to do with my current situation?? Just curious if anyone else has it or thinks the anxiety is worse because of it.
I have it to--even take pre-med antibiotics before dental work and surgery.
BTW: PVC's are premature ventricular contractions: like an off timing of a beat--like when your heart makes the "lub-dub" steady beat---well one part misfires and can feel funny. It can happen singly or as a spell of them--if gets bad you may need to be seen by Dr.
Anyway--imo--heard that one reason that anxiety is worse for us is that we make/handle adrenalin differently than normal people do. Ever notice after some scare or excitement you take longer to recover than everyone else around?? I do.
Anyway maybe we're more sensitive to changes in adrenalin or other stress hormones??
Thoughts?
As far as I understand, if you are suffering from anxiety, mitral valve prolapse is one of the things your Doctor will look for, because it can and does cause anxiety all on its own without any 'mental' issues needing to be present. I'm not sure what the treatment is, but again as far as I understand MVP is not at all life-threatening. Sorry for my lack of experience in this, but a LOT of anxiety books mention this condition as in 'once you have been checked out for Thyroid & MVT...
Best of luck,
Ben
i went to the ER last week thinking I was having a heart attack and have done a lot of research. Fortunately, I did not have doctors talking down to me, and my ER doc (a partner of my regular physician), confirmed while examining me "you just felt something weird, didn't you?" and related to me that it had registered on the EKG as an extra beat. He was very reassuring that I'm in excellent health (which I figured anyway), and that caffeine, stress (which I've been under a lot of), and so on would affect it. He left it up to me as to whether I wanted to take the beta-blockers (as a massage therapist, anything which interferes with my energy level is not something I want to do), and had me follow up with my regular doc, who put a few more things together and prescribed zanex, which I've found somewhat more effective than the beta-blocker for the MVP getting all wonky.
I work out hard, am very strong, keep healthy, rarely get sick, but most of those symptoms fit me to a T, especially:
chronically cold hands and feet
gastrointestinal stomach disturbances
problems with memory or a feeling of fogginess
inability to concentrate
mood swings
problems sleeping
numbness or tingling of the arms or legs
arm, back, or shoulder discomfort
difficulty swallowing
lump in the throat
Anxiety, especially social anxiety, makes things more difficult. I've always had a difficult time in crowds, and have a hard time with social situations, and tend to be paranoid. I try not to let it interfere with life, but I do less than I would like because social situations leave me feeling sick and worried. Fortunately I've found I'm generally fine with a fairly large active church because people there are (as a general rule) accepting, encouraging, and understanding of people's eccentricities.