Re: Weird Back Discomfort and Dizziness/Balance?
Why have I had this for so long? This is going on now for a couple of months? The acid reflux/indigestion since December? I'm so drained, it' exhausting being worried 24/7. Especially because it's going on for so long. I know I had the bacterial/flu infection back at the end of February/March, but this whole back thing started a while after that, now it's on and off throughout my day. I know I sit almost all the day, and then reclining in the evening, with my only exercise going for a stroll with my dogs.
I just am so distressed, and last time I was at my doctor's was about 2 weeks ago, and she turned around and said she wasn't going to reassure me anymore, and was just cold with me. I'm upset and alone, and feel frightened. I worry that these symptoms I'm having are something serious and I don't know what to do, I'm just scared.
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This is a 3d rendering to give an idea whereabouts on my back I'm talking about and my symptoms.
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This is a 3d rendering to give an idea on my back whereabouts my symptoms are.
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Re: Weird Back Discomfort and Dizziness/Balance?
[QUOTE=Fishmanpa;1791449]If there was something wrong, your doctor would have addressed it. She sees what I see and we all see.... Someone that has severe anxiety. What are you doing to treat that Mischa?
It's just my back bothering me though, more so that it has gone on for so long, and the weird sensations it's presenting. Other than that, I can usually manage all right, and not feel so panicky and scared.
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Respectfully Mischa, your threads are a daily chronicle of every ache, pain, niggle and fear. Your post history affirms it. Doctors, as far as what you post aren't concerned it's a physical issue. That leaves one thing.
I ask again... reading back, you said you started CBT. Does your therapist know of your participation here?
Positive thoughts
It's only because this back feeling has been going on for a good few weeks now, that it has started to really frighten me. That's why I keep worrying what t is, whether it's to do with the infection I had, or if it's muscular, and my thoughts always go to worse things like Cancer and tumors etc. It is a very real thing, and along with the anxiety I already have, makes it worse to not think of those things. Like today, I drove to the bank, then walked my dogs, got some groceries and came home, I had little niggles pulling in my back left ribs, and when I got home it got a little worse, it comes and goes through the day. I wouldn't call it a pain, more of a twisting, ache or weird funny bone sensation, but in your back ribs. I definitely have a sore shoulder blade, and that pops and cracks anyway, and burns a little on the inside.
I am seeing a therapist but I have to wait for them to arrange an appointment, my first one was an assessment session, then I have to wait to hear when they will have an available weekly schedule for me.
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It's only because this back feeling has been going on for a good few weeks now, that it has started to really frighten me. That's why I keep worrying what t is, whether it's to do with the infection I had, or if it's muscular, and my thoughts always go to worse things like Cancer and tumors etc. It is a very real thing, and along with the anxiety I already have, makes it worse to not think of those things. Like today, I drove to the bank, then walked my dogs, got some groceries and came home, I had little niggles pulling in my back left ribs, and when I got home it got a little worse, it comes and goes through the day. I wouldn't call it a pain, more of a twisting, ache or weird funny bone sensation, but in your back ribs. I definitely have a sore shoulder blade, and that pops and cracks anyway, and burns a little on the inside.
I am seeing a therapist but I have to wait for them to arrange an appointment, my first one was an assessment session, then I have to wait to hear when they will have an available weekly schedule for me.
My non-professional medical opinion....this sounds exactly like classic anxiety muscle tension. The more you dwell on it, the more you notice it. The more you notice it, the more you worry. Rinse and repeat. It's a vicious cycle.
I bet that if you spent a day doing something fun, not sitting at home Googling, you would hardly notice it.
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Can I ask if anyone else gets this? I was laying in bed just there, watching tv, feeling completely relaxed, then all of a sudden, I felt like a contraction or a flutter, like a jumping in my heart, made me lose my breath for a second, or try to breath properly? I'm not good at explaining things. After, my heart was racing, it only lasted a few seconds, but it was really scary, what is it?
I've had that feeling a couple times this week when I was completely relaxed, and catches me off guard, and I panic, because my heart starts racing afterwards. What is it?
I looked it up and Atrial Flutter came up, which was a little worrying.
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Anxiety pure and simple. The same diagnosis your doctor made. At some point you have to accept that a) things happen....aches, pains, sensations, whatever without a serious cause. And b) anxiety causes all sorts of the above on its own.
Googling symptoms and spewing them here, day after day, week after week is doing nothing to treat what ails you. It merely keeps the thoughts, fears, and sensations in the front of your mind, keeping you engaged in an endless cycle of anxiety.
I know from experience.
The best thing for you would be to put the computer away, get off Google, stay away from here, and find something to occupy your time.
I don’t mean to be harsh, but it’s reality.
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Anxiety pure and simple. The same diagnosis your doctor made. At some point you have to accept that a) things happen....aches, pains, sensations, whatever without a serious cause. And b) anxiety causes all sorts of the above on its own.
Googling symptoms and spewing them here, day after day, week after week is doing nothing to treat what ails you. It merely keeps the thoughts, fears, and sensations in the front of your mind, keeping you engaged in an endless cycle of anxiety.
I know from experience.
The best thing for you would be to put the computer away, get off Google, stay away from here, and find something to occupy your time.
I don’t mean to be harsh, but it’s reality.
I know you're not being harsh, I really do appreciate when someone just messages back, regardless if their being blunt or not. I'm going to turn the computer off for the night at least, let my brain rest for the evening. It's going to take a lot of time to work right again, especially because it's a daily thing I'm struggling with. Thank you, you weren't harsh, only honest.
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My non-professional medical opinion....this sounds exactly like classic anxiety muscle tension. The more you dwell on it, the more you notice it. The more you notice it, the more you worry. Rinse and repeat. It's a vicious cycle.
I bet that if you spent a day doing something fun, not sitting at home Googling, you would hardly notice it.
I was doing fine for a few hours there and then I started getting little sharp pains in my chest, which has left me once again scared but crying now as well. I only seen this reply after checking my phone. Thank you, I'm just feeling a little uneasy tonight now with this sharp pains, of course, after my earlier fright, this has only exacerbated it now.
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I've been having a bad night, was okay for a little while, then I started getting sharp little pains, mainly between my breast area, sometimes slightly above. Other little pinches or sharp pains, but it has me freaking out quite badly, I also had a chest tightness, so I've been thinking it's something else like Pulmonary Embolism, Some sort of problem with my heart. When I checked my Oximeter, even after my bad sensation with the sharp pains, it read my heart rate in the 70's and 80's, kept going up and down between the them. And my SPo2 level has been between 97-99, sometimes 96, flicks back and forth, so does my heart rate.
I've been crying the past hour with fear. I know I suffer with anxiety, I know not all my symptoms are imaginary, I do feel them very much so, I know because I panic, it exacerbates it also. I feel mad, or I'm going mad.
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Update: Seen my doctor today, and told him about my shoulder, back left ribs, the sharp pains in the middle of my chest, the heart flutters I was having.
He examined my chest and back with a stethoscope, made me do some movements with my arms and such, showed him the spots where it was bothering me the most, told him of the flutters I had, 3 this week, and the palpitations that follow.
He explained that some flutters is normal, and nothing concerning. He also said the shoulder and ribs can be to do with the scapula, muscles, strain, pulling and tension. He asked if I was coughing, had any coughing, I don't.
He also, because he understands me, he is also sending me for a 24 hour heart monitor, maybe 72 hour. I might not get an appointment for a couple months or so, so just have to take it day by day.
He said my heart sounded fine. My mum was there, and she explained that she has an extra heartbeat, so not sure if it runs in the family?
So, it's just very scary when this thing happens, and I explained that I didn't want him or any other doctor just putting it down to anxiety, because that is a real fear, that the doctors will miss something because they think it is just my anxiety. That scares me reckless.
I forgot to mention about my constant belching and it feeling trapped in my chest, so just have try regulate my breathing, or it's the acid reflux. I'm feeling really tired, exhausted actually/