Sparkling_Fairy
01-08-16, 23:06
Hi all,
I've been doing really well with my anxiety. Haven't had a proper attack since December and I feel calm most of the time. I still have high anxiety days, but the battle against anxiety is a slow road.
The one thing that still really bothers me is heat! This winter it didn't so much. I managed to sit inside most places where the heating was on, and while I felt warm I didn't feel uncomfortable. But at the moment, it's bad again.
However I only seem to have it with artificial heat. I visited my parents over the weekend and it was 25° in their place 'cause it was sunny outside, and while I was warm it didn't bother me. And I can be out in the sun and it won't bother me either.
But the moment I smell a heater on, I panic. And I also seem to get extreme motion sickness, which I never used to have.
But lately when I'm in a car (sometimes even while driving) but mostly as a passenger, or on a bus, I get really hot and start feeling sick. As long as I have cold air on me, I'm fine. But the minute it gets slightly warm, I get even warmer and it's awful!
I thought it might just be motion sickness, but when I walk inside somewhere and I can feel the heating is on, I instantly feel sick too.
So I guess two questions:
Anyone else suffer from heat in the car and when it's artificial, but not necessarily natural?
And can you faint from it? I know anxiety isn't supposed to hurt you. And I can put everything down to anxiety. But this one feels really physical. I feel so shaky and weak getting out of the car and I know my body is physically heating up, so I do fear I could faint from it if I can't cool down somehow.
I know that the moment I get angry, or I get worked up over something, I instantly get hot. My anxiety attacks were also me overheating and needing to go outside to cool down. So I know it was because of anxiety in the past.
I just wonder sometimes if it still is now. I did have my thyroid levels checked and a full blood count done and everything was fine. So definitely not that!
Wow, that was a longer post than I planned :P Thanks for reading!
I've been doing really well with my anxiety. Haven't had a proper attack since December and I feel calm most of the time. I still have high anxiety days, but the battle against anxiety is a slow road.
The one thing that still really bothers me is heat! This winter it didn't so much. I managed to sit inside most places where the heating was on, and while I felt warm I didn't feel uncomfortable. But at the moment, it's bad again.
However I only seem to have it with artificial heat. I visited my parents over the weekend and it was 25° in their place 'cause it was sunny outside, and while I was warm it didn't bother me. And I can be out in the sun and it won't bother me either.
But the moment I smell a heater on, I panic. And I also seem to get extreme motion sickness, which I never used to have.
But lately when I'm in a car (sometimes even while driving) but mostly as a passenger, or on a bus, I get really hot and start feeling sick. As long as I have cold air on me, I'm fine. But the minute it gets slightly warm, I get even warmer and it's awful!
I thought it might just be motion sickness, but when I walk inside somewhere and I can feel the heating is on, I instantly feel sick too.
So I guess two questions:
Anyone else suffer from heat in the car and when it's artificial, but not necessarily natural?
And can you faint from it? I know anxiety isn't supposed to hurt you. And I can put everything down to anxiety. But this one feels really physical. I feel so shaky and weak getting out of the car and I know my body is physically heating up, so I do fear I could faint from it if I can't cool down somehow.
I know that the moment I get angry, or I get worked up over something, I instantly get hot. My anxiety attacks were also me overheating and needing to go outside to cool down. So I know it was because of anxiety in the past.
I just wonder sometimes if it still is now. I did have my thyroid levels checked and a full blood count done and everything was fine. So definitely not that!
Wow, that was a longer post than I planned :P Thanks for reading!