Can Anxiety cause all the symptoms? help please!!!

[richies06]

My whole anxiety ordeal came along about 4 years ago when I was really stress then one night I was under the impression that someone put something in my drink. I still don’t  know to this day if they did or not.  The whole night I felt funny even when I went to sleep I was sweating, but it could have all been a mind thing. A couple days later I started having twitching muscle all over my body, started to feel very tired, and my appetite wasn’t that great either.  Then that night  I had a panic attack witch I thought I was having a heart attack witch left my chest hurting constantly.   The next morning I woke up and I was very weak , my chest still hurting so I went to the doctor and he said I was had symptoms from stress and anxiety and he put me on some BP medicine because my BP was up 145/83 and  effexor xr and I think this made everything worst I started to feel like my hold body would shake while resting, my legs were weak , twitching muscles, headaches, crawling skin, hot and cold flashes, and panic attack right and left, Feeling dizzy or light-headed from time to time throughout the day, I have had this pressure on the left side of my head , headaches, neck aches.   I went to another  doctor and he put me on the generic version of Zoloft and after about 3 months most of the symptoms like leg weakness and the hot and cold flashes where gone.   It took me l10 months for me to feel like I was 85 percent of being myself again I never really felt like I was a 100 percent myself again  may like 90 after coming off the Zoloft . After being on the medicine a year and 2 months I came off and I did great without it for 2 years.  I still had panic attacks here and there but not bad ones  and my face would feel weird here and there .   I would hate when I would wake up in the middle of the night I my heart would be racing and I would feel like I would have to catch my breath…( a panic a attack I guess)

Well I was loving life up in  until January of this year  2010( still love life lol  I just want to be my self again.) I was headed out with friends and I hadn’t that much sleep in the last couple of days probably like 8 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours. On the way there I got my face started feeling funny like ( warmy tingly feeling) and I got really weak  so I stop the car the get some fresh air and I not sure if I had a panic attack or what bc It had been so long since I had one. When I stepped out the car I got really cold and started to shiver so my friend rush my to the ER and the whole way there I was really scared bc I didn’t know what was going on ..  ( so I probably pretty much panicked the whole there like 20 minutes).  I got to the ER they did and EKG and chest X-ray  and ran some blood test and said it was  from lack of rest and dehydration.    The next day I went to  work and I was fine beside my legs got weak like maybe once.  The next day I went for a slight jog and I started to feel this pressure on my chest.  The next day I My legs got weak here and there, the twitching muscles had started up again all over my body even in the top of my head,  My stomach  would growl  all day, I started to be constantly dizzy and it seem like my vision was foggy like.   I went to the doctor and  he tested my thyroid and gave me some lexapro 10ml…  

I have been on Lexapro for about 2 ½  months now and when I first started I could barley get out of bed in the mornings because I was feel so weak.   I’m taking 5ml a day now bc  I feel my body is so sensitive to antidepressants. Well over the last past 3 months I have felt like I was fall over and croak at any time.  I have been dizzy every day, I cant seem to focus my eyes,  The lights in department stores bother me somehow, the twitching muscle everywhere (I mean everywhere), tingling weird feeling on different parts of my body that come and go, hot one minute cold the next,  stomach aches, stomach growls really loud all day,  my ear ring, chest pain that come and go, this warm sensation  that goes trough my body, leg weakness that come and go,  sometime my arms get a little weak, sometimes it feels like I have band around the top of my legs close to the waist, the feeling of something is hot real close to my hand,  headaches in different regions of my head, my eyes get this tired burning  feeling throughout they day sometime after  I just awaken, and the feeling of just being ill or feeling bad  kind of  hard to describe  that comes and  goes. I think the meds have caused me to have the symptoms of restless leg syndrome.   These are pretty much these symptoms I have been experiencing but I’m sure I left some out.  

I have started to feel somewhat better, but I’m facing a lot of those symptoms I mentioned above.    I have started to worry a bit about my heart and that something is wrong with my brain. My question to you guys can Anxiety cause all this. Before this all came about I didn’t feel like I was stress or anxious about anything.  My other question is there anyone out there who use to be able to drink alcohol, but now if try to drink it makes you feel bad or even the smell make you feel bad?   Because every since that night of my drink incident 4 years ago that’s how alcohol makes me feel. Has anyone experienced or is experiencing something like this?   I’m glad I found this site because no1 else really understands what I’m going through. If anyone wants to talk let me know!!  Please Help me!!! And I’m Sorry for  writing my life story.   (oh by the way I’m a 24 year old  male.)

[rachelk_82]

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[jlynn888]

I have the same problems, I am 25 and have been suffering from anxiety since my teens. I was also placed of Effexor for a shor time. Everything you are experiencing is normal. I have also learned that usually whatever brought on your first or most severe "panic/anxiety attack" will resurface when you are in similar situations again, for me that was crowds or anywhere where there were large open enclosed spaces with lots of people. My most severe attack happened 4 years ago when I was waiting in line at the mall for a pretzel (yea that sounds unharmful enough) but for whatever reason my hear began racing, my hands became clamy and I remember feeling light headed.as if I was "high" almost, everything around me seemed surreal and I was very scared for sure. Honestly the best advice is to just SIT DOWN wherever you are at and breath in and out as deep as you can for the next 2-3 minutes. It might sound simple enough..but sometimes its the simple things that really work, I still use this process now, and it works!! The more you think about it going away or stress even more when its happening, the slower the episode will pass. I also see that your "trigger" for such symptoms is alcohol, since that is what was around when you experienced your first episode, i dont beleive it has anything whatsoever to do with the alcohol itself, that is just your trigger for the symptoms, or the attack to come to play. You may also want talk to you doctor about a condition called Mitral Valve Prolape, I have this condition (its not serious) but it can lead to increased anxiety, sleep problems and a variety of other issues as well, I also suffer from sleep paralysis i recently discovered, which is farrr worse than normal anxiety alone!!  But if what you experienced  was brought on out of nowhere, chances are there is a deeper issue that is causing it..look into for sure!