andrewjdavid2005
16-02-06, 00:02
How convinced are people that i suffer from anxiety? because the fact is 2 years ago before i started getting symptoms etc i never used to worry about my health or worry about anything really i just used to get one with my life like nothing else mattered.
Let's start from the beginning and how everything started off, i had a row with my dad and within 30 minutes after that i started to feel very strange i felt really lightheaded and dizzy and i suddenly felt really weak and like i was going to collapse, also this sense of fear just came overme and it felt like i was dying.
Ever since that day i have not felt the same, i had quite afew more of those episodes where i felt really strange.
But since then i have had daily symptoms which have got worse in the last year or so.
I suffer from constant tiredness even though i sleep well, no matter how much sleep i have i never wake up feeling refreshed, i feel lightheaded everyday, sometimes feel shaky, feel abit unreal, feel short of breath sometimes, tight chest, chest pains, feel like i am suffocating/choking/being smothered.
When i first went to the doctors about this all they said was that i had the flu, 2 weeks later i still felt the same so i went back to the doctor's and said i was still feeling terrible and yet again they blamed flu, i felt i was not getting anywhere so i went to a different surgery, this was may 2004.
After speaking to the doctor at the new surgery they said they would do some blood tests, i got the results back and they were all clear, the only thing that showed up was very high cholestrol levels.
A few weeks later i had urine and stool samples taken but they came back ok, then i had an ECG but that was normal as well.
2 months later i had some more blood tests done but they came back normal as well.
They kept sort of diagnosing me with different things, they said they think i was suffering from post viral fatigue then they said chronic fatigue then they said we think you are depressed and that was it they never told me what was actually going on with me or why i was getting all these symptoms.
They said take these pills and they should calm your body down abit, i did not know what they were, when i got home i looked up on the internet and found out that they were anti-depressants and i would not take them.
When i did eventually take them they made me feel angry and agitated so they put me on cipralex and i have been on them ever since.
I still think alot that they missed something and i have something bad wrong with me or that i am dying, i feel so awful everyday and have never been given an explanation as to why i am feeling this way or what is causing all this, i seem to have countless terrible doctors that is why my faith in them has totally disappeared.
Thing is anxiety is all about constantly worrying and feeling fear and avoiding situations etc, but before all these symptoms started i never felt like that and i still dont feel fear or avoid situations?
I was very healthy and felt brilliant before all this started but even know i have all these symptoms day in and day out i do not avoid places or anything.
My partner has had anxiety in the past and even she thinks that i do not suffer from it.
Are you still convinced 100% that i have anxiety?
Thanks for reading and i really hope to get a reply from you asap.
Let's start from the beginning and how everything started off, i had a row with my dad and within 30 minutes after that i started to feel very strange i felt really lightheaded and dizzy and i suddenly felt really weak and like i was going to collapse, also this sense of fear just came overme and it felt like i was dying.
Ever since that day i have not felt the same, i had quite afew more of those episodes where i felt really strange.
But since then i have had daily symptoms which have got worse in the last year or so.
I suffer from constant tiredness even though i sleep well, no matter how much sleep i have i never wake up feeling refreshed, i feel lightheaded everyday, sometimes feel shaky, feel abit unreal, feel short of breath sometimes, tight chest, chest pains, feel like i am suffocating/choking/being smothered.
When i first went to the doctors about this all they said was that i had the flu, 2 weeks later i still felt the same so i went back to the doctor's and said i was still feeling terrible and yet again they blamed flu, i felt i was not getting anywhere so i went to a different surgery, this was may 2004.
After speaking to the doctor at the new surgery they said they would do some blood tests, i got the results back and they were all clear, the only thing that showed up was very high cholestrol levels.
A few weeks later i had urine and stool samples taken but they came back ok, then i had an ECG but that was normal as well.
2 months later i had some more blood tests done but they came back normal as well.
They kept sort of diagnosing me with different things, they said they think i was suffering from post viral fatigue then they said chronic fatigue then they said we think you are depressed and that was it they never told me what was actually going on with me or why i was getting all these symptoms.
They said take these pills and they should calm your body down abit, i did not know what they were, when i got home i looked up on the internet and found out that they were anti-depressants and i would not take them.
When i did eventually take them they made me feel angry and agitated so they put me on cipralex and i have been on them ever since.
I still think alot that they missed something and i have something bad wrong with me or that i am dying, i feel so awful everyday and have never been given an explanation as to why i am feeling this way or what is causing all this, i seem to have countless terrible doctors that is why my faith in them has totally disappeared.
Thing is anxiety is all about constantly worrying and feeling fear and avoiding situations etc, but before all these symptoms started i never felt like that and i still dont feel fear or avoid situations?
I was very healthy and felt brilliant before all this started but even know i have all these symptoms day in and day out i do not avoid places or anything.
My partner has had anxiety in the past and even she thinks that i do not suffer from it.
Are you still convinced 100% that i have anxiety?
Thanks for reading and i really hope to get a reply from you asap.