smiffie
21-05-06, 18:40
Guys,
Im new here and for the past week or 3 I have been getting awful indigestion, which leads to me panicking about it.
Mainly my chest gets some pain, either left or right, silly pains in my left hand fingers that come and go, a tight left shoulder which is worse when I move it, so i guess thats muscular, but cant help thinking its not.
My bowel movements have been awful and mainly runny, and sometimes very thin.
In all honesty I think its all related to stress, my wife left me at christmas, the dogs went to the rspca and i was made redundant in feb, after being off sick since OCT 05....
I started a new job last monday and I have sat at work just wanting to be else where, having attacks of shortness of breath, unprovocked gulping and tightness in my chest, towards the end of the week pain appeared in my left side.... I am very worried about all of this but I am busily trying to convince myself that its nothing but my anxiety and panic disorder rearingits ugly head.
I dont deal with stress to well, (i think you guessed that already thoug) and didnt want to go back to work as I felt so depressed about losing my wife and dogs, and i dont feel I have really come to terms with it totallly, think I am perhaps expecting to much too soon.
I have been drinking and smoking to much, only getting about 5-6 hours sleep a night at the very most! So is it any wonder I am feeling rough? I doubt it... Like thsi week I have convinced myself of colon cancer a stomach ulcer,liver disease, heart attacks and a hiatis hernia to name a few...
Fear is really my enemy and i need to start turning this around, i have suffered with panic atacks for 14 years now and have been on and off seroxat for that amount of time, and just started another programme of 30 mg a day for 2 months to see if things get better.
Having just skimmed through some posts, its great to see that I am not the only one who find google a tempter to self diagnose, and often I will use the NHS self help guide and keep coming out with DIAL 999 NOW at the end, BUT i am still VERY MUCH ALIVE.....
I felt so alone before coming here, and i hope to stick around for the forseeable future.
Smiffie
Im new here and for the past week or 3 I have been getting awful indigestion, which leads to me panicking about it.
Mainly my chest gets some pain, either left or right, silly pains in my left hand fingers that come and go, a tight left shoulder which is worse when I move it, so i guess thats muscular, but cant help thinking its not.
My bowel movements have been awful and mainly runny, and sometimes very thin.
In all honesty I think its all related to stress, my wife left me at christmas, the dogs went to the rspca and i was made redundant in feb, after being off sick since OCT 05....
I started a new job last monday and I have sat at work just wanting to be else where, having attacks of shortness of breath, unprovocked gulping and tightness in my chest, towards the end of the week pain appeared in my left side.... I am very worried about all of this but I am busily trying to convince myself that its nothing but my anxiety and panic disorder rearingits ugly head.
I dont deal with stress to well, (i think you guessed that already thoug) and didnt want to go back to work as I felt so depressed about losing my wife and dogs, and i dont feel I have really come to terms with it totallly, think I am perhaps expecting to much too soon.
I have been drinking and smoking to much, only getting about 5-6 hours sleep a night at the very most! So is it any wonder I am feeling rough? I doubt it... Like thsi week I have convinced myself of colon cancer a stomach ulcer,liver disease, heart attacks and a hiatis hernia to name a few...
Fear is really my enemy and i need to start turning this around, i have suffered with panic atacks for 14 years now and have been on and off seroxat for that amount of time, and just started another programme of 30 mg a day for 2 months to see if things get better.
Having just skimmed through some posts, its great to see that I am not the only one who find google a tempter to self diagnose, and often I will use the NHS self help guide and keep coming out with DIAL 999 NOW at the end, BUT i am still VERY MUCH ALIVE.....
I felt so alone before coming here, and i hope to stick around for the forseeable future.
Smiffie