wanthelp485
12-04-12, 16:36
I have had anxiety since about 2008 when my sister almost died, and then I started having panic attacks, and had to go on Paxil. It made it go away almost completely, but then over the past year and a half, I lost a lot of weight and weaned off the medication.
I was fine, until I got a back problem, and then my brain started thinking it was all kinds of terrible things. The worst part came when I was totally convinced (because my whole abdomen and pelvic regions were numb) that I had a spinal problem and that none of the feeling would ever come back.
I had at that time what I can only describe as a panic attack for my nervous system - I didn't get the typical heavy chest, heart attack like symptoms, but my whole body quit feeling things for about 20 minutes - I couldn't feel people touching me, hot/cold, couldn't taste...really anything. It was extremely scary.
I went to the hospital shortly after, for the original numbness. They did MRIs of my entire spine and found nothing. Afterward my doc put me back on the anxiety meds.
That was a month ago, and it has done the same as it used to - I don't obsess and think about things like I did when I was off the meds. So, that part is good.
And while a lot of the feeling I was losing came back over the next week or two, I still have a kind of body "dullness". It is very hard to describe, but my whole body, particularly my thighs, legs and my feet - but the rest of me, too - feel like they are just dull, as though, if I bump into something, it's like all the feeling isn't quite there. I can notice it particularly when I am cold (which is often)... it's like I can feel I am cold, but it doesn't feel like "normal".
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? And for so long (it's been over a month now) - and can anxiety last that long, even when there are few other symptoms of it?
Thanks!
I was fine, until I got a back problem, and then my brain started thinking it was all kinds of terrible things. The worst part came when I was totally convinced (because my whole abdomen and pelvic regions were numb) that I had a spinal problem and that none of the feeling would ever come back.
I had at that time what I can only describe as a panic attack for my nervous system - I didn't get the typical heavy chest, heart attack like symptoms, but my whole body quit feeling things for about 20 minutes - I couldn't feel people touching me, hot/cold, couldn't taste...really anything. It was extremely scary.
I went to the hospital shortly after, for the original numbness. They did MRIs of my entire spine and found nothing. Afterward my doc put me back on the anxiety meds.
That was a month ago, and it has done the same as it used to - I don't obsess and think about things like I did when I was off the meds. So, that part is good.
And while a lot of the feeling I was losing came back over the next week or two, I still have a kind of body "dullness". It is very hard to describe, but my whole body, particularly my thighs, legs and my feet - but the rest of me, too - feel like they are just dull, as though, if I bump into something, it's like all the feeling isn't quite there. I can notice it particularly when I am cold (which is often)... it's like I can feel I am cold, but it doesn't feel like "normal".
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? And for so long (it's been over a month now) - and can anxiety last that long, even when there are few other symptoms of it?
Thanks!