pAULspybeef
19-03-13, 17:00
Hello everyone,
For the last 2 years I have been suffering from what has been diagnosed as somatic anxiety by my GP, a neurologist, a consultant doctor and a pyschiatrist. The symptoms began rather suddenly one night in May 2011 following a rather stressful period in my life, including the death of my Mother-in-law, promotion at work and an increase in stress and workload and finding out my wife was pregnant and worrying about becoming a Dad. I thought I was anything but stressed at the time.
My symptoms include:
- A feeling of weakness down my left side. It waxes and wanes but never disappears completely.
- Tingling, numbness and burning skin sensations. My legs and feet can tingle sporadically. My right side of my face feels different to my left side seemingly constantly. It feels different to the touch. My right arm can sporadically feel numb/odd/strange.
- Sore eyes and tiredness - From time to time I feel very tired and my eyes can get sore.
Although I am functioning reasonably well again after 3 months off work at the very beginning of 2012, I continue to be concerned by the symptoms, although I have had perfect blood tests back and passed movement and visual tests etc with the neurologist (no MRI).
I would like to hear people's opinions on the following questions I have & would like to hear from people who have similar symptoms:
1) CAN Anxiety mimic diseases such as MS?
2) CAN Anxiety sometimes take years to resolve once in the vicious circle of questioning symptoms?
3) Has anyone got similar symptoms?
I would like nothing more than to be back to how I was prior to all of this hell! I don't feel overly stressed in comparison to how I was before, but read that such chronic episodes can come on after years of bad anxiety management.
I would really appreciate help from people on this forum.
Regards
pAUL
For the last 2 years I have been suffering from what has been diagnosed as somatic anxiety by my GP, a neurologist, a consultant doctor and a pyschiatrist. The symptoms began rather suddenly one night in May 2011 following a rather stressful period in my life, including the death of my Mother-in-law, promotion at work and an increase in stress and workload and finding out my wife was pregnant and worrying about becoming a Dad. I thought I was anything but stressed at the time.
My symptoms include:
- A feeling of weakness down my left side. It waxes and wanes but never disappears completely.
- Tingling, numbness and burning skin sensations. My legs and feet can tingle sporadically. My right side of my face feels different to my left side seemingly constantly. It feels different to the touch. My right arm can sporadically feel numb/odd/strange.
- Sore eyes and tiredness - From time to time I feel very tired and my eyes can get sore.
Although I am functioning reasonably well again after 3 months off work at the very beginning of 2012, I continue to be concerned by the symptoms, although I have had perfect blood tests back and passed movement and visual tests etc with the neurologist (no MRI).
I would like to hear people's opinions on the following questions I have & would like to hear from people who have similar symptoms:
1) CAN Anxiety mimic diseases such as MS?
2) CAN Anxiety sometimes take years to resolve once in the vicious circle of questioning symptoms?
3) Has anyone got similar symptoms?
I would like nothing more than to be back to how I was prior to all of this hell! I don't feel overly stressed in comparison to how I was before, but read that such chronic episodes can come on after years of bad anxiety management.
I would really appreciate help from people on this forum.
Regards
pAUL