worriedsick2009
07-06-09, 02:49
Hi everyone
So I have been doing pretty good with my fears and thus with my anxiety ... I think. I have been going to the gym a lot more which has been allowing me to blow off steam, and also the next-day soreness has been somewhat of a distraction for me since I can justify that any pains I am feeling are a result of a workout. Also it has been helping me to realize that I have not been getting weaker rather I have been making at least some progress and I am at least as strong as I ever was in every area.
Yet, I still get pain in the front right of my neck to the right and just south of my adams apple. Also, I have still been having the "weakness" feelings in my hands where they feel like they are going to cramp or I get an achey feeling in my forearm after use. All of these things still have me somewhat spooked, and in the back of my mind there is still this "what is wrong with me i think i'm dying" feeling.
So, has anyone actually had a persistent pain such as the one I'm getting in my neck? I am having worries again of things like Als, cancer. I have mostly put mad-cow out of my mind but to the extent that what I'm feeling doesn't track the progression of a normal disease, it is always in the back of my head as the catch-all for symptoms that don't line up.
I had been to some docs in april including a neuro who did a physical and said i was fine and that my probs were not neurological. I have this crazy notion that my symptoms are worse now, yet I don't think I am presenting any clinical weakness. My family doc said the pains I was feeling were probably "stress" or "anxiety" related. "I wouldn't be surprised if that pain in your neck was just a stress pain" is what he said. But it hasn't gone away it has been there EVERY DAY and feels worse over the past couple of weeks. --- me being the nut I am, I am thinking its some kind of bulbar symptom and I'm constantly checking my tongue which is always scalloped, wondering why my jaw feels weak, why I slurred that last word etc.
Anyhoo, I suppose I'm just reassurance-searching. I think back to when I had "heart problems" and they felt so real but after a clean cardiologist visit they disappeared. I was healthy feeling for months and i was riding this huge high feeling invulnerable until this hit me in the end of feb.
thanks in advance for anyone's help.
So I have been doing pretty good with my fears and thus with my anxiety ... I think. I have been going to the gym a lot more which has been allowing me to blow off steam, and also the next-day soreness has been somewhat of a distraction for me since I can justify that any pains I am feeling are a result of a workout. Also it has been helping me to realize that I have not been getting weaker rather I have been making at least some progress and I am at least as strong as I ever was in every area.
Yet, I still get pain in the front right of my neck to the right and just south of my adams apple. Also, I have still been having the "weakness" feelings in my hands where they feel like they are going to cramp or I get an achey feeling in my forearm after use. All of these things still have me somewhat spooked, and in the back of my mind there is still this "what is wrong with me i think i'm dying" feeling.
So, has anyone actually had a persistent pain such as the one I'm getting in my neck? I am having worries again of things like Als, cancer. I have mostly put mad-cow out of my mind but to the extent that what I'm feeling doesn't track the progression of a normal disease, it is always in the back of my head as the catch-all for symptoms that don't line up.
I had been to some docs in april including a neuro who did a physical and said i was fine and that my probs were not neurological. I have this crazy notion that my symptoms are worse now, yet I don't think I am presenting any clinical weakness. My family doc said the pains I was feeling were probably "stress" or "anxiety" related. "I wouldn't be surprised if that pain in your neck was just a stress pain" is what he said. But it hasn't gone away it has been there EVERY DAY and feels worse over the past couple of weeks. --- me being the nut I am, I am thinking its some kind of bulbar symptom and I'm constantly checking my tongue which is always scalloped, wondering why my jaw feels weak, why I slurred that last word etc.
Anyhoo, I suppose I'm just reassurance-searching. I think back to when I had "heart problems" and they felt so real but after a clean cardiologist visit they disappeared. I was healthy feeling for months and i was riding this huge high feeling invulnerable until this hit me in the end of feb.
thanks in advance for anyone's help.