sutty1974
26-08-08, 20:04
Hello.
I am 34 and have been have had something not right with me for over 10 years. My main symptom is dizziness, I feel like I am walking on cotton wool most of the time. It is made worse by smoking, drinking (the next day), stress, exercise, anger and busy places.
I have been unable to enter a shopping center for nealry a decade as I feel I will collapse at any time. If I try and do a sport I love - I feel like I am in a dream and then my heart goes mental and I have to stop.
I wake up dizzy most of the time, go to bed dizzy and the worst part is I can't hug my wife sometimes as the feeling of being enclosed makes me twice as bad.
This stupid feeling has taken away so much from me over the years and I feel sad as I write this.
I have ECG's, blood tests blah blah and all the rest. I have been told throughout itme it is my liver (don't even drunk much), my inner ear, low blood pressure, anemia - but all tests have proved wrong.
I know I worry but I never show it, everyone thinks I am a laid back and a cushion for them to rely on. I don't get embaressed in crowds of people but I do worry about what people think. I have many fears - flying, medicines, murderers, violence against those I love, wasps (in case I'm allergic - which I know I'm not). I also have OCD sometimes and if I don't do certain things, I think something bad will happen.
In all, I am in despair and this brings me to my point. My new doctor says that he thinks its anxiety (I thought it was when you panicked not the dizzy thing!) and has given me Citalopram. But being a worrier, I am the type of person that will read into the side effects and freak myself out waiting for the one in a million reaction that will stop my heart or shut my brain down.
Anyone tried it - can anyone help me. Does anyone feel as lost as I do right now?
Sorry to be broing - its the first time I've written my feelings down!!
I am 34 and have been have had something not right with me for over 10 years. My main symptom is dizziness, I feel like I am walking on cotton wool most of the time. It is made worse by smoking, drinking (the next day), stress, exercise, anger and busy places.
I have been unable to enter a shopping center for nealry a decade as I feel I will collapse at any time. If I try and do a sport I love - I feel like I am in a dream and then my heart goes mental and I have to stop.
I wake up dizzy most of the time, go to bed dizzy and the worst part is I can't hug my wife sometimes as the feeling of being enclosed makes me twice as bad.
This stupid feeling has taken away so much from me over the years and I feel sad as I write this.
I have ECG's, blood tests blah blah and all the rest. I have been told throughout itme it is my liver (don't even drunk much), my inner ear, low blood pressure, anemia - but all tests have proved wrong.
I know I worry but I never show it, everyone thinks I am a laid back and a cushion for them to rely on. I don't get embaressed in crowds of people but I do worry about what people think. I have many fears - flying, medicines, murderers, violence against those I love, wasps (in case I'm allergic - which I know I'm not). I also have OCD sometimes and if I don't do certain things, I think something bad will happen.
In all, I am in despair and this brings me to my point. My new doctor says that he thinks its anxiety (I thought it was when you panicked not the dizzy thing!) and has given me Citalopram. But being a worrier, I am the type of person that will read into the side effects and freak myself out waiting for the one in a million reaction that will stop my heart or shut my brain down.
Anyone tried it - can anyone help me. Does anyone feel as lost as I do right now?
Sorry to be broing - its the first time I've written my feelings down!!