ronski
04-09-11, 20:46
I am in a real mess again with very unpleasant symptoms that maybe are somatic due to anxiety and some form of depression probably atypical.
My medical history in the last 4 years have been diagnosis of ME/CFS, panic disorder, chronic hyperventilation syndrome and vasovagal syncope. I am collecting phobias like some people collect stamps, at present I have cardiac neurosis, prescription meds, heights, flying, deep water, agoraphobia and at times just living.
I have had 23 CBT sessions, numerous courses to deal with stress and anxiety by the local mental health trust and my doctor refuses to give me any medication even after I wrote him a letter explaining in detail what I am going through. I have had loads and loads of unpleasant tests so now if I attend a clinic or hospital and they take my blood pressure it goes up to 170/110 straight away.
I have managed for some short periods to get some form of control on my anxiety but it never leaves completely. I know the anxiety handbook word for word but I cannot get to the point of getting much better.
This last week I have been getting chest tightness and periods of shortness of breath that just occurs mainly at rest. I try and do things excepting the symptoms are present but they never leave, in fact I am wondering if I am getting continuous free floating panic attacks.
I feel as though I am at the end of the road with nowhere to go, I have not been out of the house for 4 months and that was going to the ME clinic for them to tell me that funding issues meant that any help had to stop even though I was still very unwell so I was discharged with the caveat that I could ring them if I was concerned but they may not be able to see me without my GP re referring.
My GP says there is nothing more to be done and I have to learn to live with my conditions. I am at my wits end with nowhere to turn, I have written to the Samaritans but again just generic advice and no real answers.
What can you do with symptoms of panic that never seem to leave, sensations of dread pervade my every waking minute at the moment, has anybody any ideas please.
My medical history in the last 4 years have been diagnosis of ME/CFS, panic disorder, chronic hyperventilation syndrome and vasovagal syncope. I am collecting phobias like some people collect stamps, at present I have cardiac neurosis, prescription meds, heights, flying, deep water, agoraphobia and at times just living.
I have had 23 CBT sessions, numerous courses to deal with stress and anxiety by the local mental health trust and my doctor refuses to give me any medication even after I wrote him a letter explaining in detail what I am going through. I have had loads and loads of unpleasant tests so now if I attend a clinic or hospital and they take my blood pressure it goes up to 170/110 straight away.
I have managed for some short periods to get some form of control on my anxiety but it never leaves completely. I know the anxiety handbook word for word but I cannot get to the point of getting much better.
This last week I have been getting chest tightness and periods of shortness of breath that just occurs mainly at rest. I try and do things excepting the symptoms are present but they never leave, in fact I am wondering if I am getting continuous free floating panic attacks.
I feel as though I am at the end of the road with nowhere to go, I have not been out of the house for 4 months and that was going to the ME clinic for them to tell me that funding issues meant that any help had to stop even though I was still very unwell so I was discharged with the caveat that I could ring them if I was concerned but they may not be able to see me without my GP re referring.
My GP says there is nothing more to be done and I have to learn to live with my conditions. I am at my wits end with nowhere to turn, I have written to the Samaritans but again just generic advice and no real answers.
What can you do with symptoms of panic that never seem to leave, sensations of dread pervade my every waking minute at the moment, has anybody any ideas please.