Hey you! Glad to hear from you.

When you gonna kick that anxiety's ass?

rmb I'm trying!! LOL Keep taking one step forward, 5 back. Thankfully, I am still in therapy and have recently been given some anxiety meds. The problem is, taking the anxiety meds gives me anxiety! LOL Yes, i am a mess, I know.

The problem is I still feel lousy. So the question than becomes are my physical symptoms causing the increased anxiety? Or, is the anxiety causing my physical symptoms? Or a combo of both perhaps? I have pretty much given up driving because my dizziness is so bad sometimes. It's like being motion sick all the time.

So I finally realized coming back here is exactly what I needed! Besides, I miss everyone. :o)

Hey! Glad to see you back again!

Have they found a cause for the dizziness? I just started vestibular therapy to help my dizziness and so far it is working wonders ... of course all of my dizziness CAUSES have been resolved and so now they are just trying to train my brain out of feeling dizzy all the time. If you're dizzy long enough, the brain can just default to assuming that you're always dizzy ... even if there is no reason to be.

What have they done to figure out why you're feeling so bad?

I'm glad you're back! You are so not a downer. There's expressing concerns about your anxiety and then there's wallowing in it. Two different things entirely. You never wallow. Yeah, the longer out from my PE, the more I realize my anxiety symptoms were as palpable as my PE symptoms and so I understand why I could never tell what was what for so long.

Sorry you're so dizzy. Who knows what that's from. That could be the anxiety, but maybe you have some other stuff going on too. TossNTurn is going through a little of that right now too.

Sorry for calling you out Toss, but since you've raised it here, I don't think you'll mind.

Nah ... I don't mind. When defeating the evil empire Dizziness, we can use all the minions we can get.

Hi, I understand your anxiety. I am just off warfarin and am getting paranoid every twinge in leg/foot etc. I guess the worry never really goes away completely after what we have all been through, but we learn to not let it take over our lives completely. Well I'm trying not to but only time will tell.

Minions.... everyone should have 'em!

LOL RMB I'm married to a Minion. Jean don't ever think your a downer and welcome back. I too haven't posted in a very long time. I guess life got in the way. Hope everyone is well and staying strong.
Hugs to all
Ferr

Ferr! How ya been??

Man, everyone's coming out of the woodwork today!

Jean and Ferr back at the same time. Buy your lottery tickets, folks; it's our lucky day!!!!

LOL RMB, or at least you all got your bad luck in one single day and the rest of the year is going to be glorious. TnT I'm doing wonderful and staying so super busy. Been playing as much as the job allows and loving every minute. just got back from Elk hunting camp and am kind of glad to be off that dayum horse. My Butt bruises have bruises. But I did get my Bull elk yesterday so it was worth it. Getting ready for work as we speak as I have to work for 3 days then get off for 2 more days and have my deer tag to fill.
Hope you all are doing well.
hugs
ferr

Ferr!!!! Wow yeah I guess we are all crawling out of the woodwork here! LOL So great to "see" everyone! Damn you guys are awesome! :o)

So, as for the dizziness question. As of now, nothing has even been looked into as a cause, as they all keep thinking it is anxiety. So, I have to just suck it up, go on these meds and either prove them right or wrong. Added to that are the chest pains still and at times, sob. Now, that said, I have to admit (with my head hung low in shame) that I did go back to smoking. I know I know, awful. And really I have no excuse. All I can say in the way of some explanation is that the stress was becoming too much, so I fell back to what I always had. And until I quit, my doctor really has no sympathy.

I don't think they are quite understanding what I mean when I say I am dizzy all the time though. I am not just getting a head rush when I stand up or move too fast. It's not something that lasts a few minutes and then goes away. Perhaps I need to work on my communication skills with them!

Maybe you should check in with an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist. They have a lot of insight into dizziness (and tests they can do) since the center of balance is in the ear. For me, a lot of my initial dizziness was coming from inner ear infections related to my sinuses. The ENT helped with that, but they've got other tricks up their sleeves as well.

No reason you can't check into that while waiting to see if the anti-anxiety meds work.

Good point tnt. And, I actually already have one, an ENT that is. Haven't seen him in a while, but worth a shot. He is the guy who diagnosed my sleep apnea as well as removed a huge lipoma from my neck.

Hi everyone.. Just popped in to say hi. Hope you are all doing well as can be.
I'm on a new drug trial at the moment. hopefully it will replace or be up there with warfarin. Beats 2 injections every day that's for sure.
1 little tablet once a day with food.. no INR. No diet requirements.
I have been on it for a month now and am tolerating it beautifully.
I hope the day will come soon when you can all have accessibility to this new drug.
Take care all. I pop in from time to time to see what everyone is doing. xoxo