OllieT
04-11-09, 11:26
Hello all. I'm new on this forum and I'm hoping you can help me. I've always suffered from some anxiety that I thought I could deal with, but what has brought me here is the fact that I'm so concerned about symptoms that I'm not sure whether they are because I am worrying, or some medical reason. I am hoping to talk to anyone who can help, whether they've suffered the same symptoms, or somethiogn similar. I'm hoping that someone can "talk me down". Basically I just can't seem to sleep through the night any more and I'm worrying myself into thinking it could be serious.
I had been suffering from a mild chest infection, which I went to the doctors for and got soem antibiotics. While this has improved I now cannot seem to sleep throught the night. I fall asleep on my back and then wake, two hours later, with pins and needles in my arms, a dizzy head and a need to inhale deeply. this produces a sensation as though I'm "opening up parts of my lung that have been deflated, or expanding a cotnricted passage. this is where my mind goes itn overdrive. I'm thinkign that in a layed back position my airways are meeting an obtruction, whcih I've now convinced myself is a tumour. I've been to the doctor twice about this (different doctors though), but its a difficult to describe or replicate for them, because it only appears when I lie back and relax in bed. They insist that my lungs are clear. I still have a little bit of a sore throat and a slightly hoarse voice, and this helps perpetuate these darker thoughts. I'm only 36. Compounding these feelings to levels where I feel like I want to cry (most recently when just waiting for a train to work) is when I consider my home situation of my two year old boy and heavily pregnant wife. I can't really expose her to too much of this, because it feels unfair. I can't believe It's got this bad. Doctor prescribed some Diazepam when I insisted I needed help to sleep, but this doesn't seem to have helped. Can someone help?
Thanks
Oliver
I had been suffering from a mild chest infection, which I went to the doctors for and got soem antibiotics. While this has improved I now cannot seem to sleep throught the night. I fall asleep on my back and then wake, two hours later, with pins and needles in my arms, a dizzy head and a need to inhale deeply. this produces a sensation as though I'm "opening up parts of my lung that have been deflated, or expanding a cotnricted passage. this is where my mind goes itn overdrive. I'm thinkign that in a layed back position my airways are meeting an obtruction, whcih I've now convinced myself is a tumour. I've been to the doctor twice about this (different doctors though), but its a difficult to describe or replicate for them, because it only appears when I lie back and relax in bed. They insist that my lungs are clear. I still have a little bit of a sore throat and a slightly hoarse voice, and this helps perpetuate these darker thoughts. I'm only 36. Compounding these feelings to levels where I feel like I want to cry (most recently when just waiting for a train to work) is when I consider my home situation of my two year old boy and heavily pregnant wife. I can't really expose her to too much of this, because it feels unfair. I can't believe It's got this bad. Doctor prescribed some Diazepam when I insisted I needed help to sleep, but this doesn't seem to have helped. Can someone help?
Thanks
Oliver