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...
Prolonged anxiety?
I have been under alot of stress and my anxiety is really bad this last month or so. A week before my period I had been feeling a slight pain like a tingling sensation in my left or right breast but never at the same time. It went away the day before my period came but came back two weeks later after I was obsessing and worrying and fearful about it coming back...I hope this doesn't sound weird but has I was reading online about breast pain it all of a sudden came back. It's not severe, it is like an achy tingling feeling that last for a second just now and again. I am getting the same feeling under my arms and my neck and shoulders are very tense. Prolonged anxiety can cause this right? I have never experienced health anxiety before now..how long will it last for?
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
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My day...today...misplaced my debit card...didn't realize it until I got to the register after shopping to a full cart. Used a different debit card and pulled apart everything looking for missing debit card before I left parking lot. Got home, dropped keys. So now I have a missing debit card, missing keys. A full cartload to unload and put away. I got everything put away.Dumped purse for a...
I had high anxiety a while back and had a sharp pain in my left breast. Once I was medicated the pains stopped.
I am very careful about reading and/or listening to talk about diseases and what not when I am feeling anxious. I can think my way into any symptom set before I even realize I've done it.
My rule of thumb now is that if I feel something, I pay attention, take notice and watch what happens. If it goes away, great. If it comes back, I notice if it is better, worse or the same as last time. If it's worse, I am more inclined to get it checked out.
For example, I currently have the slightest pain in my low right abdomen. It stuck around for about 3 weeks and then went away right after my doctor told me it might be appendicitis. So when it went away, I was relieved. Well, a week later it came back a lesser amount of pain, so I have just been monitoring it. If something different happens, I remember it or write it down. If that new thing or worse pain goes away, I don't worry as much.
Anxiety does tend to hypersensitize things and it can be very frustrating.
Bottom line, if you are worried, get it checked out. If you think in your gut that you're okay. wait it out until you have a reason to get it checked out.
Hope this helps. <3