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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mistigale 06/15/2013

I literally feel like I am losing my mind!! My anxiety symptoms are very physical and it just so happens that I have MAJOR health anxiety. I will do ok for a while and then BAM something comes along and knocks me down and it comes in droves. Recently, I found out I have an enlarged spleen, the doctors cannot figure out why, "it just is". This has bee. Weighing on me for a while...I have a perpetual fear of having a heart attack because I have MVP and a heart murmur (which sometimes they hear and other times they don't). I SUFFER from TMJ, so I often get toothaches from it..well for 2 days straight I had a toothache in a tooth that I knew was bad, after the second day I went to the dentist...he suggested a root canal, so I had a root canal today..well the pain is still there, so of course I'm thinking the worse, they have me on antibiotics which I hate!!
Now, tonight I am having heart flutters (go figure) and I have this odd vibrating in my right foot! It's like a cell being on vibrate..it last 2 seconds then stops then comes back every 5 seconds! It's driving me mad. I am falling apart at the seams and I feel helpless.
I take clonozapam and I am afraid I'm getting addicted to it :( I just want my life back...I can't even think straight anymore! It's getting overwhelming. Sorry :( just need some encouragement, prayers, advice, anything at this point!!

BonTemps 06/15/2013

I would suggest seeing a cardiologist to ease your mind about the heart problem. The great majority of heart attacks are caused by build up of plaque in the arteries. an inflamation causes the plaque to rupture
and cause a blood clot. I know way more than I ever wanted to about the subject because I am a heart attack survivor. You could wear a
"holter monitor" for 24 hours to see if you have any dangerous arrythmias. It records every heart beat and they can even tell which
chamber is beating prematurely if it occurs.Anxiety can cause a lot of the symptoms you mention.It can also make TMJ worse by causing
you to clench your teeth, espescially when you're sleeping. Ive been
taking clonazapam for 4 years and only had to increease the dose once
because Im careful about the frequency of use.

rskb3 06/15/2013

mistigale I am so sorry you are going through such a rough time. It sounds like you have a lot of health issues which can make anxiety worse. I know what you mean about wanting your life back I have been throwing up every morning for 4 months now and nothing seems to be helping me I went to the Dr. on Thurs. and they drew blood to see if I was deficient in anything and everything came back normal we are just waiting for the vitamin D report. It is so frustrating when everything comes back normal but you know that there is something wrong. Maybe it is just anxiety and I am convincing myself it has to be something else because I don't want to live the rest of my life throwing up and feeling like crap every single morning. I am always here to encourage and support you. I will keep you in my prayers. Do you have someone who can physically be with you to support you? I don't think that you need to be alone right now.

mistigale 06/15/2013

Bontemps- I have done that already, about 6 months ago. Everything came back fine, the MVP and heart murmur is also hit and miss. Sometimes they hear it, sometimes they don't. The ECHO showed very mild MVP. When I have to fill out medical forms or have heart flutters, it drudges it all up again.
Rskp- thank you for your concern :) I'm fine really, just get really bummed sometimes. It IS very frustrating, but all we can do is keep on pressing on. I am trying to change my diet to clean eating, I've heard a lot of great things about it. The only problem is anxiety makes me wanna eat bad stuff..lol. I'm sorry your having issues too...it's a comfort to have others that understand.

Thank you both for your encouraging words :)
God bless!!

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