popdisaster
18-01-13, 19:48
Hi all
Recently, the last few days in particular, my anxiety symptoms have got a lot worse. I can't quite pinpoint the cause... I think it may have something to do with the fact I've had hardly anything to do at work, so I end up just sitting there, with health worries going through my head and nothing to distract me, so it gets worse and worse...
Every day I have had very strong feeling of being 'spaced out' or 'not really there'. VERY hard to focus on any tasks, and generally a horrible feeling. Then at first I was getting shooting pains, very quickly, around my throat, so immediately I thought it was something serious there – thyroid cancer, or similar. So of course my throat felt 'swollen up' straight after, and I even convinced myself it was painful to swallow, when in reality it wasn't that bad at all.
Today, the throat seems fine, but I've had a lot of pains around my lower stomach / abdomen. Could this be IBS? I've never had it before. The main recurring pain is in a weird place... the best I can describe it is just next to my tail bone, but not in the middle, to the right. Basically the hip area. But it's not at the surface, like a muscular pain, but inside, somewhere. It's been coming and going all day.
I try to stay positive and think that it must be anxiety, but when it keeps coming then eventually I break down and give into the negative thoughts – 'it must be cancer, etc'.
Also I now have a constant dull pain in my left leg, below the knee.
Why oh why does anxiety do this to us?! Like I said, I'm trying to remain positive and convince myself that the symptoms are caused by anxiety. But I'm also scared that they must be something worse. I have a GP appointment on Tuesday but that seems far away right now...
Any advice welcomed
Recently, the last few days in particular, my anxiety symptoms have got a lot worse. I can't quite pinpoint the cause... I think it may have something to do with the fact I've had hardly anything to do at work, so I end up just sitting there, with health worries going through my head and nothing to distract me, so it gets worse and worse...
Every day I have had very strong feeling of being 'spaced out' or 'not really there'. VERY hard to focus on any tasks, and generally a horrible feeling. Then at first I was getting shooting pains, very quickly, around my throat, so immediately I thought it was something serious there – thyroid cancer, or similar. So of course my throat felt 'swollen up' straight after, and I even convinced myself it was painful to swallow, when in reality it wasn't that bad at all.
Today, the throat seems fine, but I've had a lot of pains around my lower stomach / abdomen. Could this be IBS? I've never had it before. The main recurring pain is in a weird place... the best I can describe it is just next to my tail bone, but not in the middle, to the right. Basically the hip area. But it's not at the surface, like a muscular pain, but inside, somewhere. It's been coming and going all day.
I try to stay positive and think that it must be anxiety, but when it keeps coming then eventually I break down and give into the negative thoughts – 'it must be cancer, etc'.
Also I now have a constant dull pain in my left leg, below the knee.
Why oh why does anxiety do this to us?! Like I said, I'm trying to remain positive and convince myself that the symptoms are caused by anxiety. But I'm also scared that they must be something worse. I have a GP appointment on Tuesday but that seems far away right now...
Any advice welcomed