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can all these symptoms be anxiety??
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Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD), bipolar disorder, dementia, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic, personality disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, stress, transitions, and work problems.
can all these symptoms be anxiety??
by ang4188, Sep 21, 2005 12:00AM
Hi, I'm a 30 yr old woman, and until recently I considered myself in good health. I had a baby by emgercency c-section, about 10 weeks ago. It was very stressful, but now the baby is fine I'm the one falling apart. A week after the delivery my buttocks went numb off and on for 2 days. I thought it was epidural related and did not pay much attention. A week later I noticed tingling sensation in upper shoulder blade. Then my arm went numb and then my leg. (This was all my right side) I went to the er, had a ct scan and bloodwork and everything was fine. The er doc asked if anyone in my family had ms, there is no one in my family with ms & at that time I knew nothing about ms. I went home that day and researched ms, and since then I have had one symptom after another. Tingling, burning, headaches, you name it. I've seen two neurologists, and had MRI's of the brain, and spine, more bloodwork and nothing has showed up. My GP has prescibed Zoloft because he says this can all be caused by anxiety. Is this true? Can you actually have symptoms like this because of stress and anxiety? And why did I have the symptoms before I started freaking out about MS? Any answers here would be great, because I am literally a Nervous wreck!!
Doctor's Answer
Not long ago, I went through a lot of panic attacks and neurological manifestations around my face. My doc soon discovered that my adrenal glands were underactive. At that point, w/ medication, all of my symptoms went away, including the episodes of panic, etc.
It's interesting to note, however, that in most cases, adrenal insufficiency is caused by stress itself (Hypothalmus-Pituatory-Thyroid-Thymus-and finally, the adrenals). Unfortunately, once the adrenals give out a little bit, the body cannot handle stress the way it used to, quite obviously.
Whether or not it was the cause of everything in my case I still don't know because they did find a secondary infection that went along with the adrenal problem. In either case, however, I'm sure that stress was behind all of it.
Wash head to toe of depression
Wash head to toe of vertigo
Must close eyes and kneel to avoid throwing up
Then they pass in about 30-45 seconds.
Thank you for anyone who has any similar symptoms to make me feel I'm not alone, and to anyone who has helpful feedback on what to do. I have nothing to be stressed about. I have nothing that anybody else wouldn't work through just fine in normal every day life.