carabijoux
22-11-15, 15:56
Hi everyone!
I hope you are all as well as can be!
I've had anxiety for years, but over recent months I keep getting cycles where I'm not so bad, and then it hits me full force. I've not had anxiety where the physical sensations are this strong, and I was wondering if this sounds normal for anxiety???
I'm feeling...
~ Like there's an elephant sitting on my chest. I'm having to physically make an effort to breathe. Like an elastic band around the top of my waist.
~ Random chest pains.
~ Shaking/trembling.
~ Dizziness, extreme fatigue.
~ Really dry mouth and throat.
~ Like there's a lump in my throat, and my throat feels really tight.
~ Like my heart is in my throat.
Is this all typical of anxiety? Usually when I have anxiety I'm pretty good at calming myself down, but this has been nearly two weeks and nothing I do seems to be helping.
It got so bad last week that I ended up in A+E (really unlike me!) because I just couldn't breathe. I had an ECG, chest x-ray, bloods, urine test, the works...they couldn't find anything, and put it down to anxiety.
My GP has since doubled my sertraline.
Some assurance that this is 'normal' would be really greatly appreciated. I already have health anxiety, so it's taking every bit of strength I have to not crumble with these awful physical sensations that I'm being told are anxiety.
If anyone has any suggestions too as to what I can do to alleviate these feelings, that would be appreciated too. I'm trying deep breathing, but that doesn't seem to help :(
Thank you SO much!!!
C xox
I hope you are all as well as can be!
I've had anxiety for years, but over recent months I keep getting cycles where I'm not so bad, and then it hits me full force. I've not had anxiety where the physical sensations are this strong, and I was wondering if this sounds normal for anxiety???
I'm feeling...
~ Like there's an elephant sitting on my chest. I'm having to physically make an effort to breathe. Like an elastic band around the top of my waist.
~ Random chest pains.
~ Shaking/trembling.
~ Dizziness, extreme fatigue.
~ Really dry mouth and throat.
~ Like there's a lump in my throat, and my throat feels really tight.
~ Like my heart is in my throat.
Is this all typical of anxiety? Usually when I have anxiety I'm pretty good at calming myself down, but this has been nearly two weeks and nothing I do seems to be helping.
It got so bad last week that I ended up in A+E (really unlike me!) because I just couldn't breathe. I had an ECG, chest x-ray, bloods, urine test, the works...they couldn't find anything, and put it down to anxiety.
My GP has since doubled my sertraline.
Some assurance that this is 'normal' would be really greatly appreciated. I already have health anxiety, so it's taking every bit of strength I have to not crumble with these awful physical sensations that I'm being told are anxiety.
If anyone has any suggestions too as to what I can do to alleviate these feelings, that would be appreciated too. I'm trying deep breathing, but that doesn't seem to help :(
Thank you SO much!!!
C xox