Axiety Attacks Constantly

[Shaza05011979]

Can anyone please relate to me as i'm really scared out of my wits about the way i feel. I have been to the doctors and they have perscribed me beta blockers but they only take the edge off how i feel...this is just turning into a living nightmare and i want to go back to being how i was...which was outgoing and bubbly, everyday am feeling worse.

The doctor told me i had a Generalized Anxiety Disorder.....but how i feel cannot be all to down to anxiety..or can it??

I have had panic attacks on and off for a few year now....they would last anywhere from a few seconds to ten minutes then the feeling would pass, but these last few months have been living hell.

In March this year my gran died and i also had to have my daughter moved schools as she was getting bullied really badly....5 weeks after my gran passed i thought i had Vertigo......i would literally get out of bed and my legs would be like jelly and i couldnt focus or barely make it to the toilet...spent nearly a week in bed before i eventually plucked up the courage to go to the doc's, they gave me beta blockers and betahastimine for my vertigo....still not sure if i have vertigo or if this is a symtom of my anxiety. A combination of these tablets r making me feel sick and have horrendous heartburn.

I have constant fears that i have a deadly disease, panic about not seeing the future ie:-my daughter grow up/getting married/grankids/xmas's. If my parnter is running 10 mins late i panic thinking something had happened to him, if my daughter is out playing am constantly ringing her to if she's ok, espcially if i here an ambulance.

I use to shake, get severe diahorrea, fell like i was going to die....but my most recent concern is my internal shaking which seems to be with me 24/7......as soon as i stand up i am shaking inside but no-one else can see, my muscle's r aching and feel like i've done a workout, i find it a struggle to walk and even and effort to lift an arm, sometimes i feel weak but i did notice today sitting in the car i am soooo tense all the time and i didnt even realise it till today....could this be why i'm aching and muscles hurt....i am getting around 3/4hrs sleep a night because i fall asleep and jump upright in bed having an attack, shaking, crying hysterically because i cannot catch my breath.

I am at the end of my teather and just want this to stop and feel normal again....this is a living nightmare.....does this happen to anyone else....my main concern is to why i'm shaking all the time because as the days r going by i'm convincing myself that i have m.s????

Any advice would be appreciated because beta blockers just dont seem to be working at all xx

[tina0214]

I am in the same boat! The stress actually makes everything 10x worst! My body actually twitches, I get headaches and recently have started getting PVC and my heart often feels like it will jump out of my chest! I also get scared of illnesses, I get scared of being alone and worst of all I too get worried of worst case scenarios... I often tell myself it's all in my head, I've had a stress test done and my doc said my heart was fine but I am always thinking of other reasons, I often get concerned that its not just anxiety... Fortunately my mom has terrible anxiety and I have a few close friends that also suffer from panic attacks so I don't feel so alone in this feeling.

[helpsite]

Sounds like a lot of severe anxiety and stress combined look up on you tube lucinda bassett you will also find others that help and talk about all the feelings you experience try to relax we can get better if we try .but dont fight the feelings let them float they will fade and you will get better take care Joe.

[allmymarbles]

Forgot to mention that the test for candidiasis was positive. Actually, being a observant person who actually listens to what his patient has to say, my doctor was pretty sure what I had before the results were in.

[allmymarbles]

What kind of doctor is this and have you ever been checked out by an endocrinologist? Some of your symptoms sound like hypoglycemia and some like high cortisol. You undoubtedly have anxiety, but that does mean that it is of emotional origen. In any case the pills just treat the symptoms, not the cause. And they don't seem to be treating the symptoms all that well.

I am always suspicious of an "anxiety" diagnosis. I was in a very prestigious hospital last January for extensive testing for an almost paralytic fatigue. I was discharged after four days with a diagnosis of "anxiety." I felt this was just their way of saying, "We have no idea what is wrong with her."

I was right. I had long talks with my doctor and was tested for systemic candidiasis. Since it involved my lungs the mortality is 50 per cent. I am alive and kicking and not anxious.