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 04/13/2009

For the last couple of weeks I get this feeling of pressure in my head and then sometimes a headache across my forhead. My biggest problem with anxiety is thinking that something is horrible wrong with me and Im going to die.

Has anyone ever had this feeling because now I am thinking I have a tumor or something.

deleted_user 04/13/2009

Yes... both the physical symptoms and emotional response you are describing are common for anxiety sufferers. Stress can do unbelievably drastic things to you. I'm almost 100% certain that you are fine. The best thing to do is to prove that to yourself. Go to a doctor and have him or her schedule an MRI. If there's anything else you are concerned with, then get tests for those things too. Get a physical. Then, when the results come back, you can relax and the next time you get one of those pressure headaches, you can tell yourself, "Well, I know it's not a brain tumor, because I just got checked! It's just anxiety."

Trust me my dear, it IS just anxiety - I've been dealing with this for about 25 years now. I've been where you were - scared by the physical symptoms, scared to go get tested because of what I might find out... I wasted years of my life being scared for nothing, because when I finally went and got checked - I was perfectly fine!

Go see your doc.

vonnyzzz 04/14/2009

i totally agree with brenda, headaches have been a daily thing for me and yes we always think the worst. I also thought i had a brain tumour.....get checked out anyway at your doctors. But i bet its just anxiety .

soultosoul 04/14/2009

You are not alone, this is typical anxiety symptoms, they mirror physical illnesses and have us believing we have brain tumors and are about to have heart attacks/strokes and think we are dying

once we can begin to accept that this is not going to happen it begins to lessen then disappear, this may not be an overnight process but please be assured that you will
begin to be able to deal with this when you have a better understanding of whats happening to you,

speak to your GP, look up some info online that will explain whats going on when you are in a highly anxious state, knowledge is power and this will help you begin to ease the stresses you have around you
x

e4shannon 04/14/2009

thanks guys i also feel when i wake up like the water feeling in your ears after youve been swimming.

deleted_user 04/15/2009

Have you checked your blood pressure lately? If it goes high, headache would be common with it. Next time you are in a doctors office, ask to have your blood pressure checked. It is only a possibility but one worth looking at.

If you do have unusually high blood pressure, a beta blocker would help and may provide some relief from the headaches.

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