Vertigo
About 5 years ago I woke up with my room spinning, I freaked out, I was so terrified and could barely walk. I rang my docs and they said it was probably inner ear and sent some anti nausea meds to my pharmacy. I’ve never had another episode like that but every 6 months to a year sometimes shorter durations I feel a milder episode come on, it’s mostly if I look up or down.
I’ve booked myself a GP appointment. My biggest issue is because I’ve had health anxiety for a long time, and recently I’ve definitely had a relapse for a few weeks. I struggle to differentiate between what’s anxiety and what is a real issue.
I know
My biggest fear is anything brain related, and my fear is I’ll pass it off as anxiety and then die or become disabled some how. Anyways I digress, I’d love to know from people who feel mostly recovered or are having good patches -
How do you rationalise symptoms you may feel - or more so how do you what is anxiety driven and what is physiologically driven?
I think it really comes down to trust for me, I do not trust myself any more, I am in trauma therapy for things that have definitely increased my levels of anxiety. But the trusting myself to truly know hasn’t changed. For example when I got covid I was convinced I was having a panic attack for the first hour or so of symptoms, then I realised I had a fever and did a covid test and realised nope not anxiety 🤣😐, I think for more serious health issues I just want to be able to tell the difference so if I really needed help I’d go get it.
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