Seffie
17-07-07, 10:33
Hi Everyone,
I'm new here but I have actually been using NMP for about 2 years. It has helped me very much.
I apologise for such a long post but I'll try to keep this as brief as possible.
I have suffered from health anxiety & occassional panic attacks for the past 15 years but once I understood what was going on I was always able to manage it & it didn't really interfere with my life. Then 2 years ago I hit perimenopause & the anxiety & panic & palpitations just took off.
Then last year when I was already feeling worn down from the anxiety etc my mum died unexpectedly. This really knocked me off my feet & the 2 weeks she was in hospital before she died was very traumatic.
I returned to work & was faced with a backlog of stuff, I was also doing a course through work which I had to do at home.
In October I remember having 3 weeks of feeling completely overwhelmed by grief, home & work demands & anxiety symptoms & I just crashed.
I felt exhausted, my body felt heavy & like lead, it was like having flu but without the fever.
My doctor diagnosed nervous exhaustion & I was off work for 6 weeks.
To cut a long story short, I have since made slow improvement & I've been having more good days than bad fbut if I do too much physically or get stressed, angry or very anxious the symptoms return. I've made a lot of lifestyle changes & if I'm careful I can just about function although I'm only doing 1 day a week at work.
I have had loads of blood tests the only thing that came up was borderline anaemia & my BP is currently quite low. I asked my doctors-who, btw have been spectacularly unsupportive-if they thought it was CFS but it appears that neither of them 'believe' in this as a true diagnosis.
I asked my GP what he thought I had then & he mumbled 'mild depression', -who wouldn't feel depressed with these symptoms?! The other doctor said that I wouldn't feel better unless I 'stopped mithering'!
All they have offered me is anti-depressants but even one of these dr's admitted 'but you're not really depressed & the fear of side effects would make you worse.'
So, I've done most of the things that I can for myself & had a saliva test done for adrenal fatigue which seems to indicate that I have mild AF but my doctors don't recognise this as a real condition.
I have done so much research & analysing in to what's going on & what might help that my heads spinning. I don't know where to turn for help next & I feel very alone in coping with this.
It is only recently that I've been able to accept that chronic stress & anxiety have probably exhausted my adrenals & I know it will take time for them to recover. But I just wondered if others who have anxiety etc have felt similar symptoms. These include:
* heavy, lead feelings all over but especially arms & legs
* intense burning sensations
* muscles feel tight & like they've been overworked
* feeling really ill with the exhaustion
* waking with burning & weak sensations in arms & legs
( there is no loss of strength just the sensation of it)
When I feel like this I panic & so panic symptoms like palpitations & hot feelings are mixed in with everything else.
I am sorry this is so long , I just hope that maybe someone can help me to understand what's going on, I'm thinking of changing surgery because I can't believe how they've just basically left me to get on with it,
Thanks!!
Seffie x
I'm new here but I have actually been using NMP for about 2 years. It has helped me very much.
I apologise for such a long post but I'll try to keep this as brief as possible.
I have suffered from health anxiety & occassional panic attacks for the past 15 years but once I understood what was going on I was always able to manage it & it didn't really interfere with my life. Then 2 years ago I hit perimenopause & the anxiety & panic & palpitations just took off.
Then last year when I was already feeling worn down from the anxiety etc my mum died unexpectedly. This really knocked me off my feet & the 2 weeks she was in hospital before she died was very traumatic.
I returned to work & was faced with a backlog of stuff, I was also doing a course through work which I had to do at home.
In October I remember having 3 weeks of feeling completely overwhelmed by grief, home & work demands & anxiety symptoms & I just crashed.
I felt exhausted, my body felt heavy & like lead, it was like having flu but without the fever.
My doctor diagnosed nervous exhaustion & I was off work for 6 weeks.
To cut a long story short, I have since made slow improvement & I've been having more good days than bad fbut if I do too much physically or get stressed, angry or very anxious the symptoms return. I've made a lot of lifestyle changes & if I'm careful I can just about function although I'm only doing 1 day a week at work.
I have had loads of blood tests the only thing that came up was borderline anaemia & my BP is currently quite low. I asked my doctors-who, btw have been spectacularly unsupportive-if they thought it was CFS but it appears that neither of them 'believe' in this as a true diagnosis.
I asked my GP what he thought I had then & he mumbled 'mild depression', -who wouldn't feel depressed with these symptoms?! The other doctor said that I wouldn't feel better unless I 'stopped mithering'!
All they have offered me is anti-depressants but even one of these dr's admitted 'but you're not really depressed & the fear of side effects would make you worse.'
So, I've done most of the things that I can for myself & had a saliva test done for adrenal fatigue which seems to indicate that I have mild AF but my doctors don't recognise this as a real condition.
I have done so much research & analysing in to what's going on & what might help that my heads spinning. I don't know where to turn for help next & I feel very alone in coping with this.
It is only recently that I've been able to accept that chronic stress & anxiety have probably exhausted my adrenals & I know it will take time for them to recover. But I just wondered if others who have anxiety etc have felt similar symptoms. These include:
* heavy, lead feelings all over but especially arms & legs
* intense burning sensations
* muscles feel tight & like they've been overworked
* feeling really ill with the exhaustion
* waking with burning & weak sensations in arms & legs
( there is no loss of strength just the sensation of it)
When I feel like this I panic & so panic symptoms like palpitations & hot feelings are mixed in with everything else.
I am sorry this is so long , I just hope that maybe someone can help me to understand what's going on, I'm thinking of changing surgery because I can't believe how they've just basically left me to get on with it,
Thanks!!
Seffie x