breeze25
09-06-07, 17:29
Hi all.
for me it started about 8 weeks ago, life became pretty stressful, so I took St Johns Wort to try and chill me, but had to stop taking them after only 4 days as I got terrible dizzy heads, but after another week I was still dizzy so went to the doctors, she thought it was labrithitos (sp ?) although she was just taking a random guess. I started after about 5 weeks to worrying about them, what could be causing it etc etc, where I had my first panic attack for several years. I then developed headaches, I started getting a few a week, i started to worry about them, and this made my anxiety worse, I then started getting headaches most days, I have had one now for the last 8 days running. Its very upsetting. It usually starts in same place at the back of my head and a few inches up from my neck or slightly more to the side. By the time I am aware that that feeling is there (feels like someone is pinching the side of my head) within an hour of so the whole of my head aches and I feel as though I have been whacked on the back of the head with a baseball bat.
I get slightly forgetful at time, but I know that this is a symptom of anxiety, but yet I can't get it through to myself that its not a tumour.
Some of the time I can put things into perspective and manage to get through to myself that it is likely to be a stress / tension type headache, but the majority of the time I panic and worry that its a tumour, I go to the doctors who says all the right things and says it doesn't sound serious at the moment, I feel better only to go home and an hour later think but what if she is missing something. I have been sitting here most of the day trying to deal with the fact that I think I have a tumour and one they won't be able to operate on, I worry about leaving my young son and my husband. Its breaking me at the moment and I am trying my hardest to keep a lid of things, but I feel I just want to cry.
I have tried Indian Head Massage, yoga dvd and tension headache pills, but the tension goes but I am just left with the feeling of where I am convinced my tumour is, and I swear if I think about it enough I can make the feeling more important that it actually is.
I am back to the doctors early next week.
for me it started about 8 weeks ago, life became pretty stressful, so I took St Johns Wort to try and chill me, but had to stop taking them after only 4 days as I got terrible dizzy heads, but after another week I was still dizzy so went to the doctors, she thought it was labrithitos (sp ?) although she was just taking a random guess. I started after about 5 weeks to worrying about them, what could be causing it etc etc, where I had my first panic attack for several years. I then developed headaches, I started getting a few a week, i started to worry about them, and this made my anxiety worse, I then started getting headaches most days, I have had one now for the last 8 days running. Its very upsetting. It usually starts in same place at the back of my head and a few inches up from my neck or slightly more to the side. By the time I am aware that that feeling is there (feels like someone is pinching the side of my head) within an hour of so the whole of my head aches and I feel as though I have been whacked on the back of the head with a baseball bat.
I get slightly forgetful at time, but I know that this is a symptom of anxiety, but yet I can't get it through to myself that its not a tumour.
Some of the time I can put things into perspective and manage to get through to myself that it is likely to be a stress / tension type headache, but the majority of the time I panic and worry that its a tumour, I go to the doctors who says all the right things and says it doesn't sound serious at the moment, I feel better only to go home and an hour later think but what if she is missing something. I have been sitting here most of the day trying to deal with the fact that I think I have a tumour and one they won't be able to operate on, I worry about leaving my young son and my husband. Its breaking me at the moment and I am trying my hardest to keep a lid of things, but I feel I just want to cry.
I have tried Indian Head Massage, yoga dvd and tension headache pills, but the tension goes but I am just left with the feeling of where I am convinced my tumour is, and I swear if I think about it enough I can make the feeling more important that it actually is.
I am back to the doctors early next week.