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...

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e4shannon
e4shannon
Went to new Dr today and she said there must be some under lying physical condition that is causing my anxiety. Now I am freaked out there may be something horribly wrong with me. Anyone know of anything it can be
eshaw
eshaw
I'm not sure. I know eating disorders and low body weight can increase anxiety and depression but other than that I wish I knew. Sorry. At this point, I wish there was something physically wrong with me, in hopes that there may be a way to improve things. I hope you figure it out and achieve health. Good luck.
BridgetsMom
BridgetsMom
First off the Dr should never said that you have an underlying physical condition causing your anxiety when you are anxious...Now you will think all kinds of thoughts that will only increase your anxiety...I have been dealing with anxiety off and on since 1988 and mine is triggered by things going on around me,traumatic events like my brothers death.I take zoloft for the serotonin because when mine is low it causes me to have an increase in anxiety....Please see a therapist and get some help with the anxiety,which is just an emotion...Not a good one,but it is ine and it has to be controlled so it doesn't control you....
Best wishes
Reed31
Reed31
Generally it's not something horribly wrong. Your doctor is doing you a great service by checking to see if there's a physical cause because often, if that's it, there's a simple fix.

If you have the MTHFR gene mutation (super common) it means you aren't getting enough folate (B6), so the treatment is to avoid folic acid (the way most people get folate but doesn't work for people with this mutation) and to take a different sort of folate. Super easy fix.

It could be another vitamin deficiency - B12 or iron or D. Another easy fix.

It could be a thyroid issue - so they just give you a medicine for that to replace the hormone.

Anxiety is a very common issue with a lot of possible but most of the time there's a stress trigger - a new job, a move, someone passing away, friends moving, and so on.

I hope they do find the answer and it's a simple solution.
hyperpgal
hyperpgal
these are the conditions that I know of that can cause anxiety--none of them are terribly scary:

hyperthyroidism
hyperparathyroidism (parthyroid turns into a benign tumor)
pheochromasytoma (sp) basically, a benign tumor on your adrenals
menopause
low magnesium levels
inner ear problems (ie meniere's) has to do with spatial stuff
cushings
also remember something that you could basically manage by taking antihistamines----don't remember what that was though...

I am sure there are more-but i don't think I've found any that were really, really bad...