Jay8
25-04-17, 22:17
Hi, I'll start by introducing myself. My name's Jay and I'm a 25 year old female from the UK.
In the last week I came to the realisation that I suffer from health anxiety. For me, it all started last year when I experienced aches, pains, tingling sensations, joint/muscle pain and joint clicks all over my body. At the time my friends and family thought I was being paranoid and told me it was nothing to worry about, until one night my leg was in a lot of pain and I could barely walk on it. I then started to get all hot, have heart palpitations, parts of me felt numb, I was struggling to breathe - at the time I literally thought I was having a heart attack. Paramedics came out and done some tests and told me it seemed a lot like an anxiety attack (as the lady used to suffer from them herself), but they took me in an ambulance to hospital anyway and got me checked over. They couldn't find anything wrong and referred me to my GP. After some blood tests the GP confirmed that I had vitamin D Deficiency and looking into it after, all the symptoms matched up. I now take extra vitamin D supplements and feel a lot better for it. Looking back I now know this was a panic attack and I've experienced 1 more since.
Since this happened, I've slowly become more paranoid about every slight ache or pain I feel in my body and everyday I'm spending hours on end worrying about my symptoms. It went away for a while, but in the last few weeks the worrying has come back to the extreme and it's really starting to affect my everyday life. I can't go a single day without a thought that i could be seriously ill and it's really starting to make me depressed.
Without going into too much detail about how I've been feeling recently yet (otherwise this post would be too long!), I came across this forum as I am at the point where I want to tackle the problem before it gets any worse. I'm looking to reach out to anyone that is going through something similar and is at the point where they want to turn their life around.
I'm fed up of my brain being on overdrive everyday about this and it would be great to speak to others who are experiencing something similar as it would be good to help each other get through the problem.
Any comments would be appreciated!
In the last week I came to the realisation that I suffer from health anxiety. For me, it all started last year when I experienced aches, pains, tingling sensations, joint/muscle pain and joint clicks all over my body. At the time my friends and family thought I was being paranoid and told me it was nothing to worry about, until one night my leg was in a lot of pain and I could barely walk on it. I then started to get all hot, have heart palpitations, parts of me felt numb, I was struggling to breathe - at the time I literally thought I was having a heart attack. Paramedics came out and done some tests and told me it seemed a lot like an anxiety attack (as the lady used to suffer from them herself), but they took me in an ambulance to hospital anyway and got me checked over. They couldn't find anything wrong and referred me to my GP. After some blood tests the GP confirmed that I had vitamin D Deficiency and looking into it after, all the symptoms matched up. I now take extra vitamin D supplements and feel a lot better for it. Looking back I now know this was a panic attack and I've experienced 1 more since.
Since this happened, I've slowly become more paranoid about every slight ache or pain I feel in my body and everyday I'm spending hours on end worrying about my symptoms. It went away for a while, but in the last few weeks the worrying has come back to the extreme and it's really starting to affect my everyday life. I can't go a single day without a thought that i could be seriously ill and it's really starting to make me depressed.
Without going into too much detail about how I've been feeling recently yet (otherwise this post would be too long!), I came across this forum as I am at the point where I want to tackle the problem before it gets any worse. I'm looking to reach out to anyone that is going through something similar and is at the point where they want to turn their life around.
I'm fed up of my brain being on overdrive everyday about this and it would be great to speak to others who are experiencing something similar as it would be good to help each other get through the problem.
Any comments would be appreciated!