What is it you feel?

Im battling anxiety everyday.

I have generalized anxiety disorder so I'm very familiar with the symptoms. What have you been experiencing?

Welcome to this group!

I feel short of breath, like I can't take in enough air. I sometimes have mild chest pains. I'm constantly thinking about dieing, about whether I have anxiety or if I'm really sick. My sisters a rn.....an I wear her out with questions and scenarios. I've been to the er at least once a year with shortness of breath and chestpains.....I'm still here, I'm still alive.....I'm pretty sure if I had a heart issue for ten years it would have come up at some point.....but I still feel like somethings wrong and those thoughts full my head all day, everyday.

Oh and as I wrote that.....I'm sitting in the doctors office.....to follow up on my last visit for shortness of breath

Richard my symptoms are almost exactly the same as yours. Have you taken any medication for it yet?

Hi Richard, I'm new to this site but feel your pain. I could just cry reading about you and Bricooz (and all the other people on this site).
Medical Anxiety is my issue too. I call it that because so many of us have symptoms relating to some life threatening disease. Or at least we think we do. Yet, if you go to a doctor the diagnosis isn't as severe as you thought or doesn't exist at all. I've been through heart issues, appendix issues, all kinds of maladies from cancer to some rare disease and have yet to be diagnosed with any of them. I've lost huge amounts of weigh at times from worry, no appetite, feeling like I want to cry, you name it I've probably experienced it. I guess what I'm trying to say is I really feel your pain. Sometimes its hard to think of any thing else. But, hang in there. Are you on any anxiety meds?

I went to the doc for my shortness of breath as well. I was prescribed xanax, and they taught me to breathe into a paper bag seeing as I was hyperventilating and not getting enough CO2. It's helped me to get past the acute anxiety, but I am looking forward to my follow up when I can request an snri. I really don't want to get dependent on benzodiazepines, but it is really helping me to get through this interim period before I can see a psychiatrist.

Also, nice to meet you! I'm Olivia :)

Don't know if you're speaking to me but it's nice to meet you too!
I'm John...

You're def. not alone. I've struggled with anxiety for most of my life and remember having panic attacks almost every day when I was younger. for me, it's a feeling of tension throughout the body and mind that makes me feel nerve-wracked and my mind is reeling with continuous thoughts. it's like not being able to stop worrying and a feeling of uneasiness. my heart will start racing and i'll get a feeling in the pit of my stomach. all my muscles tense up and i get headaches that are sometimes related to the stress. so i can relate, for sure!

I thought I cannot drive. I was stalling the car when I was approaching a roundabout or a junction.
One day, at rush hours I was feeling so bad I couldn’t start driving. I realized that I was having a panic attack.
For many years I only drove locally. To work, a couple of shops and that was it. On holiday I took my kids only to Scotland, always on the same route when it was quiet. No motorways or dual carriage way.

I got a new job and I had to drive on the motorway. A friend came with me twice to show me the way. I made a few mistakes but I managed well.
I realized that it was not the driving that I feared. My fear was of GETTING LOST!!!!
I WAS A 47 YEARS OLD WOMAN FRIGHTEND TO GET LOST!
I don’t know why! I don’t know for how long I had that in me!
But the fear was paralysing me. That was why I couldn’t drive.

I got an IPhone who has a brilliant satnav like app. It tells me where to go so I am not stressed anymore. I know that I can’t get lost now.

I still get some panic attacks at times but most of them are worries about the finances or the kid’s safety. I try to look at them like normal things of life. I try to embrace my fears know. To get to their roots.

Hi I suffered for many years. .NOW I feel like I'm going to choke or swallow my tongue, anyone ever feel this way?

Positive1 I don't feel like I'm going to swallow my tongue but I just have issues swallowing all the time. Im scared to eat because things get stuck on my throat all the time so I barely eat.