Beckybecks
01-04-16, 11:15
I have HA. Took me many years to accept that. I have done loads of research and read hundreds of posts on this forum and together with my own experiences I finally understand what's wrong with me.
Normally with knowledge and understanding comes control and hopefully recovery. (As with panic attacks). However, this condition is proving to be a huge challenge to me.
This year alone I have had umpteen conditions and the symptoms have been so REAL. Am I going mad? Am I imagining the pain? No, I really do experience the symptoms.
Six weeks of IBS discomfort apparently due to gluten intolerance was followed shortly afterwards by pins and needles in my hands and feet. At times I could hardly walk, my legs were like jelly, my hands were tingling.
Without even giving myself space to breath, a new symptom arrived.
I looked in the mirror one morning to discover my eye was half filled with blood, a burst blood vessel. (Emergency bells began to ring in my head!).
That very same day the headaches arrived. Day after day I awoke with a headache that lasted the full day accompanied by nausea.
The numbness and tingling in my hands and feet? Completely forgotten and overshadowed by the headaches! When I remembered I realised the tingling had stopped......!
The gluten intolerance and IBS symptoms? I could eat a whole loaf of bread now without a twinge.....why?
If I told a normal person my symptoms they would advise a visit to the doctor. Part of me agrees. And part of me knows that very soon there'll be a new symptom that will overshadow this current one. And that if only my mind could relax I wouldn't have this symtom either.
My coping strategies: distraction, exercise, CBT.
I just wish there was a button I could press to switch off my mind.
But I do realise that this is a habit my mind has learnt over time and it'll take time to unlearn it.
So good to have this forum to chat with like minded people. Everyone else thinks I'm nuts!
Normally with knowledge and understanding comes control and hopefully recovery. (As with panic attacks). However, this condition is proving to be a huge challenge to me.
This year alone I have had umpteen conditions and the symptoms have been so REAL. Am I going mad? Am I imagining the pain? No, I really do experience the symptoms.
Six weeks of IBS discomfort apparently due to gluten intolerance was followed shortly afterwards by pins and needles in my hands and feet. At times I could hardly walk, my legs were like jelly, my hands were tingling.
Without even giving myself space to breath, a new symptom arrived.
I looked in the mirror one morning to discover my eye was half filled with blood, a burst blood vessel. (Emergency bells began to ring in my head!).
That very same day the headaches arrived. Day after day I awoke with a headache that lasted the full day accompanied by nausea.
The numbness and tingling in my hands and feet? Completely forgotten and overshadowed by the headaches! When I remembered I realised the tingling had stopped......!
The gluten intolerance and IBS symptoms? I could eat a whole loaf of bread now without a twinge.....why?
If I told a normal person my symptoms they would advise a visit to the doctor. Part of me agrees. And part of me knows that very soon there'll be a new symptom that will overshadow this current one. And that if only my mind could relax I wouldn't have this symtom either.
My coping strategies: distraction, exercise, CBT.
I just wish there was a button I could press to switch off my mind.
But I do realise that this is a habit my mind has learnt over time and it'll take time to unlearn it.
So good to have this forum to chat with like minded people. Everyone else thinks I'm nuts!