anxious_n
21-11-14, 22:50
Hi just a bit about myself. I'm hoping by joining I will better understand my condition and also maybe I can help others in time. For a good few years now I've had an awful stomach with IBS like symptoms but anxiety never reared its head. I have a fairly stressful job at times and I tend to overthink things a lot with a lot of problems always whizzing around my head, (I have mild OCD traits). As well as working full time in a fairly stressful job I am near to finishing a part time masters degree. About 2 months ago I had about 5 different stresses occur all at once from different angles of my life, as well as that I was working long hours. I thought I had coped ok but within the last 6 weeks I started getting trembling symptoms in my hands, legs and stomach. worse after just waking up but pretty much all day, went to docs they did thyroid blood test etc which came back ok and a week ago gave me 50mg Sertraline to take, all was going well until today, my IBS symptoms had completely disappeared, muscle twitches gone, my trembling had pretty much stopped, then completely out of the blue the first massive panic attack I have experienced. Thanks for reading and I look forward to chatting to you all :)