Laura1981
22-10-07, 08:43
Hi everyone I'm quite new to this and it's not nice hey.
It all started about two months ago when I started getting bad stomach/digestion problems. Terrible gurgling noises, the feeling that food wasn't going down properly and pains under my left ribcage. Went back and forth to the doctors a couple of times and they didn't think there was too much to worry about and just prescribed me some tablets to help with the digestion. Ended up down A&E as one day during eating I was getting terrible stabbing pains in my stomach, tight chest and I felt like someone had got hold of me around my neck and was strangling me...not a nice feeling. They did an ECG and some basic blood tests and said that they couldn't find anything and to carry on taking the tablets the doctor had prescribed. Of course, this makes me feel stupid because I know that I don't feel right but they look at you as if you are making it up!
Anyway, stabbing pains subsided but then started to find it increasingly difficult to eat and swallow as I seem to have a constant feeling of something at the back of my throat. I also developed terrible pains in my left breast arm and shoulder. Back to the doctor again who checked me over and just put it down to lifting my 4 month old baby and prescribed me co codamol. these didn't do anything for the pain so i stopped taking them after a couple of days. Anyway, about a week later the pain went as quickly as it came on!:wacko:
I had also noticed a pain in my right leg that kept coming and going, kind of an achy pain but not really the muscle and again after trying painkillers it was still there...and still is. I mentioned this at one of my trips to the doctors and he said probably nothing and didn't even take a look!
Then just over a week ago I woke up in the middle of the night unable to breathe properly, heart beating really fast, head felt all numb and I couldn't stop shaking. I spent the next hour or so pacing around with my husband trying to calm down. Eventually he persuaded me to go back to bed and try and get some sleep. I told him I was too scared to go to sleep because I felt like I had to concentrate on breathing otherwise if fell asleep I woud stop! Sounds silly I know. Eventually I did manage to drop off but ever since then I have felt terrible. For the next few days my hands and feet felt numb and like I couldn't use them properly this has got better but in the last few days I have been getting really bad feelings of pressure in my head. Not headaches, just pressure. My ears have been hurting, my nose and eyes. My right ear feels blocked, even though I can hear fine, when I swallow you normally get a feeling in your ears but I don't have this in my right one. Now today I have a really bad ache in the left side of my neck.
Really the list is never ending and its so hard to try and stay posotive when all of this is happening to you. I have noticed that when I am keeping myself busy then I tend to feel a bit better and when I try and relax I feel terrible!
I have the doctors again today because I think it might be wise to discuss the possibility that I am suffering from anxiety. I just don't know what to do with myself and what I can do to get out of this loop. I just keep thinking the worst will all the things that I keep experiencing.
Any thoughts welcome, oh and has anybody tried acupuncture or reiki to help with their HA?
It all started about two months ago when I started getting bad stomach/digestion problems. Terrible gurgling noises, the feeling that food wasn't going down properly and pains under my left ribcage. Went back and forth to the doctors a couple of times and they didn't think there was too much to worry about and just prescribed me some tablets to help with the digestion. Ended up down A&E as one day during eating I was getting terrible stabbing pains in my stomach, tight chest and I felt like someone had got hold of me around my neck and was strangling me...not a nice feeling. They did an ECG and some basic blood tests and said that they couldn't find anything and to carry on taking the tablets the doctor had prescribed. Of course, this makes me feel stupid because I know that I don't feel right but they look at you as if you are making it up!
Anyway, stabbing pains subsided but then started to find it increasingly difficult to eat and swallow as I seem to have a constant feeling of something at the back of my throat. I also developed terrible pains in my left breast arm and shoulder. Back to the doctor again who checked me over and just put it down to lifting my 4 month old baby and prescribed me co codamol. these didn't do anything for the pain so i stopped taking them after a couple of days. Anyway, about a week later the pain went as quickly as it came on!:wacko:
I had also noticed a pain in my right leg that kept coming and going, kind of an achy pain but not really the muscle and again after trying painkillers it was still there...and still is. I mentioned this at one of my trips to the doctors and he said probably nothing and didn't even take a look!
Then just over a week ago I woke up in the middle of the night unable to breathe properly, heart beating really fast, head felt all numb and I couldn't stop shaking. I spent the next hour or so pacing around with my husband trying to calm down. Eventually he persuaded me to go back to bed and try and get some sleep. I told him I was too scared to go to sleep because I felt like I had to concentrate on breathing otherwise if fell asleep I woud stop! Sounds silly I know. Eventually I did manage to drop off but ever since then I have felt terrible. For the next few days my hands and feet felt numb and like I couldn't use them properly this has got better but in the last few days I have been getting really bad feelings of pressure in my head. Not headaches, just pressure. My ears have been hurting, my nose and eyes. My right ear feels blocked, even though I can hear fine, when I swallow you normally get a feeling in your ears but I don't have this in my right one. Now today I have a really bad ache in the left side of my neck.
Really the list is never ending and its so hard to try and stay posotive when all of this is happening to you. I have noticed that when I am keeping myself busy then I tend to feel a bit better and when I try and relax I feel terrible!
I have the doctors again today because I think it might be wise to discuss the possibility that I am suffering from anxiety. I just don't know what to do with myself and what I can do to get out of this loop. I just keep thinking the worst will all the things that I keep experiencing.
Any thoughts welcome, oh and has anybody tried acupuncture or reiki to help with their HA?