smcc8172
20-08-08, 13:16
Hi everyone, I am new to this site and have suffered anxiety for about 7 years, it started after a routine trip to the dentist ( no I did not have a problem or fear of dentists) which resulted in a strange taste in my mouth, which would not go away. A usually sane person, i fell apart completely and spent months and months going from one specialist to another and spent most of the time in a blind panic and crying :weep:
I thought I was going mad, eventually my doctor gave me a drug (which I think was called Motival ) which did work after about 3 months. I have been off the drugs since then(about 5 years) but still suffer from anxiety, but over the years it has morphed into different problems (although all are health related) - tinnitus, strange smell, the taste thing, itching, and now finally it is heart palputations a horrible empty feeling at the top of my stomach, pain in my chest and a constant feeling of not being able to get enough air and so constantly sighing or yawning. It is as if as soon as I train my brain to overcome one 'symptom' it gives up on it and throws me another.
Although I realise that the symptoms are anxiety related (at least I am assuming they are, as I have not seen a doctor for years) what I dont know is does it do your heart harm to be beating in this way?, faster then slow etc etc, is it all in my mind or is there a physical reaction by the heart and can it do any harm.
I am happy to have found a site where I can discuss these things without being thought of as a 'nut'.
Although given my current anxiety state, I tend to aviod the medical pages of magazines or health related articles as you can guarantee by the end I'll have the the symptoms myself and convince myself I actually have the illness.
HELP
I thought I was going mad, eventually my doctor gave me a drug (which I think was called Motival ) which did work after about 3 months. I have been off the drugs since then(about 5 years) but still suffer from anxiety, but over the years it has morphed into different problems (although all are health related) - tinnitus, strange smell, the taste thing, itching, and now finally it is heart palputations a horrible empty feeling at the top of my stomach, pain in my chest and a constant feeling of not being able to get enough air and so constantly sighing or yawning. It is as if as soon as I train my brain to overcome one 'symptom' it gives up on it and throws me another.
Although I realise that the symptoms are anxiety related (at least I am assuming they are, as I have not seen a doctor for years) what I dont know is does it do your heart harm to be beating in this way?, faster then slow etc etc, is it all in my mind or is there a physical reaction by the heart and can it do any harm.
I am happy to have found a site where I can discuss these things without being thought of as a 'nut'.
Although given my current anxiety state, I tend to aviod the medical pages of magazines or health related articles as you can guarantee by the end I'll have the the symptoms myself and convince myself I actually have the illness.
HELP