Hi all
For some reason my head made me come on this site this evening... I use to be on this site at least 5 x a day and I haven't visited this site for over 6/7 months now.
I use to suffer from severe health anxiety, I convinced myself over a 3 year period that I had MS, a brain tumour, a heart condition, epilepsy, stroke, lymphoma and Sooo many more issues! I had ECGs, MRIs, balance testing and all sorts! Surprise surprise all my results were negative but I always believed something was wrong...
Dizziness was my main symptom and it use to hit me out the blue and always freak me out, along with blurred vision, vertigo, headaches, numbness, face and head tingling sensations, chest tightness, breathlessness and a whole host of other symptoms.
My advice is to seak help, speak to your doctor and be as honest as you can... I then had integrative therapy on the NHS it was more in depth than CBT and tackled the issue at its root cause and had a therapist who was actually quite harsh but for me him being as straight to the point as he was helped me. Make sure you do the homework as well! Other advice is to keep a diary, it makes you realise that you didn't die from the same symptoms you had last week so what's going to cause that this week!
The other advice is that of practising mindfulness... It makes you live the here and now and when you can feel yourself start to panic it makes you accept what's happening. It also can make you switch off and take the time your body needs to relax.
All I wanted to say really is if you need help please feel free to contact me, I will always do my best to help.
I'm not saying I have the answers but I never ever thought I could get better and this forum was filled with people and still is filled with people who can't see the light just yet and I always think it's important to see that you can recover. I lost 3 stone, didn't leave the house for a year and had never felt so ill, stressed or worried in my whole life. I'm now 28, and 20 weeks pregnant and actually enjoying it
I have my wobbles every now and again but have the techniques to focus my head and leave the world of HA behind me
As I said above please contact me if you want to ask questions but I hope the above can shed a bit of positivity amongst you...