meant2live
28-03-17, 19:47
Hi everyone!
As my title says, I'm new here, so I wanted to introduce myself.
I've always been an anxious person. I can easily recall many times during childhood that I was sure I was going to die because I accidentally got hand lotion in my mouth or some food tasted funny when I ate it I used to call my Mom at work over and over again, afraid that I had just doomed myself in some way.
After that ended, I moved on to becoming nervous about new situations or going on trips. All of these situations still cause great anxiety for me, by my most recent issue has been my health.
I gave birth to my daughter in the summer of 2015. During the last few months of pregnancy, I felt very lightheaded a lot of the time,but convinced myself it was just pregnancy blood pressure problems and assumed it would go away after birth. Well, it's almost been two years now and I still get those lightheaded symptoms. This all turned into a constant dizziness after a while.
I went to my doctor about the dizziness and ended up having a tilt table test. During that test, I passed out within one minute of it starting. We don't know what caused that, though, as I'm not orthstatic. Since then, I've been to numerous doctors and more and more symptoms started to present themselves.:doh:
Finally, I got to the point where I was fed up with all of my symptoms being ignored by the specialists and went back to my regular doctor. She started to question where some of these symptoms were caused by anxiety. My mother had also raised this question, but I was in such a state of fear from the medical stuff and symptoms that I was afraid to chalk it up to anxiety.
Ever since my doctor suggested anxiety, I've been trying to have a different perspective when off symptoms pop up, but I still have that lingering fear that there is something terribly wrong with me like a blood clot in my brain or MS. At this moment, I'm having chills on my scalp and neck with a headache starting.
I hope that this site brings us all peace and perspective.
As my title says, I'm new here, so I wanted to introduce myself.
I've always been an anxious person. I can easily recall many times during childhood that I was sure I was going to die because I accidentally got hand lotion in my mouth or some food tasted funny when I ate it I used to call my Mom at work over and over again, afraid that I had just doomed myself in some way.
After that ended, I moved on to becoming nervous about new situations or going on trips. All of these situations still cause great anxiety for me, by my most recent issue has been my health.
I gave birth to my daughter in the summer of 2015. During the last few months of pregnancy, I felt very lightheaded a lot of the time,but convinced myself it was just pregnancy blood pressure problems and assumed it would go away after birth. Well, it's almost been two years now and I still get those lightheaded symptoms. This all turned into a constant dizziness after a while.
I went to my doctor about the dizziness and ended up having a tilt table test. During that test, I passed out within one minute of it starting. We don't know what caused that, though, as I'm not orthstatic. Since then, I've been to numerous doctors and more and more symptoms started to present themselves.:doh:
Finally, I got to the point where I was fed up with all of my symptoms being ignored by the specialists and went back to my regular doctor. She started to question where some of these symptoms were caused by anxiety. My mother had also raised this question, but I was in such a state of fear from the medical stuff and symptoms that I was afraid to chalk it up to anxiety.
Ever since my doctor suggested anxiety, I've been trying to have a different perspective when off symptoms pop up, but I still have that lingering fear that there is something terribly wrong with me like a blood clot in my brain or MS. At this moment, I'm having chills on my scalp and neck with a headache starting.
I hope that this site brings us all peace and perspective.