Jules147
17-06-11, 13:24
Hi,
I've suffered HA for the last eight years off and on. It began when life was going too well... (I was on holiday and reunited with my partner after a few weeks apart due to the fact that she was living abroad. We since married and remain so) and I felt that something had to come along to spoil it.
Other causes of anxiety last year gave me some alarming symptoms (tingling/burning sensations in my extremities, numbness in the odd finger or toe and around my mouth that came and went, light headedness, feelings of unreality and detachment from the world around me etc.) I made the mistake of googling the tingling etc... and ended up with peripheral neuropathy, MS or MND before noticing twitching calf muscles after having read about them first. Finally in March this year I tipped over the edge and finally found the courage to see my doctor who spent a good twenty minutes with me running a few simple tests and asking questions. I told him everything including about my checking behaviours. He diagnosed me with anxiety.
I've learnt to make the tingling/burning/numbness sensations go away in part by breathing better i.e. not hyperventilating and also by the simple fact that they don't scare me so much. Other symptoms have taken their place including prickling sensations all over, watery eyes, sleep disturbances, trembling, twitching etc. and more recently the tight band around my head two days out of three. I need to shake the feeling that there is a sinister underlying cause and/or that my condition will worsen to the extent that I can no longer work.
Fortunately I don't get all of the symptoms all of the time but at any one given time I tend to have at least one. I did however lose all of the symptoms for two whole days while on a short city break last month.
I'm still working but find it increasingly difficult. I long for some quality time off but can't really afford it as I'm self employed.
I've suffered HA for the last eight years off and on. It began when life was going too well... (I was on holiday and reunited with my partner after a few weeks apart due to the fact that she was living abroad. We since married and remain so) and I felt that something had to come along to spoil it.
Other causes of anxiety last year gave me some alarming symptoms (tingling/burning sensations in my extremities, numbness in the odd finger or toe and around my mouth that came and went, light headedness, feelings of unreality and detachment from the world around me etc.) I made the mistake of googling the tingling etc... and ended up with peripheral neuropathy, MS or MND before noticing twitching calf muscles after having read about them first. Finally in March this year I tipped over the edge and finally found the courage to see my doctor who spent a good twenty minutes with me running a few simple tests and asking questions. I told him everything including about my checking behaviours. He diagnosed me with anxiety.
I've learnt to make the tingling/burning/numbness sensations go away in part by breathing better i.e. not hyperventilating and also by the simple fact that they don't scare me so much. Other symptoms have taken their place including prickling sensations all over, watery eyes, sleep disturbances, trembling, twitching etc. and more recently the tight band around my head two days out of three. I need to shake the feeling that there is a sinister underlying cause and/or that my condition will worsen to the extent that I can no longer work.
Fortunately I don't get all of the symptoms all of the time but at any one given time I tend to have at least one. I did however lose all of the symptoms for two whole days while on a short city break last month.
I'm still working but find it increasingly difficult. I long for some quality time off but can't really afford it as I'm self employed.