Can anxiety be constant ?

I am sick to death with what I think may be an anxiety disorder. However, when I read up on it, I see a lot of places mention about panic attacks and that they come and go, but although I do get fleeting panic attacks, I seem to feel in a dreamy state ALL the time, not just at times when I may hypoventilate.

Also how related is equilibrium and anxiety ? I have been suffering from a strange sensation of walking on an uneven surface, and by this I mean as though I am walking up and down steps whilst moving. I can walk in a straight line, and stand on one leg, but I just feel like the floor is a massive lilly pad or water bed. I am unsure if it is back related, inner ear related, or anxiety related. The fact it is worse when I get out of a car or armchair makes me think it is back related, but then I am sure I also suffer anxiety problems with my walking, where my I feel my feet are not connected to my body.

My problem is, I have had problems for 11 years ever since I had a strange attack that threw me to the floor. I never got diagnosed, so I am left wondering if I do have a serious health problem that has not been found, or that whatever happened "happened" and then went away, and because of not knowing I am now left with anxiety, or BOTH. But although my problems are up and down, I never have a symptom free day, which makes me wonder if anxiety can be as persistant and strong as the things I feel on a daily basis ?

Here are all my symptoms, does this sound like anxiety or something else ?

Darkened vision

Neck pain

Spacey dizziness when I move my head

Prickly hands and feet while becoming incredibly unattached to things around me for about 5 minutes, as though I have gone from being in a daydream like I am usually to total unreality

A constant state of being in a dream and things aren't real

Freezers and other background noises sound louder when in supermarkets then I feel they should

If a build up of sound happens (gets louder, and faster) in a movie then my hair stands on end and I feel all fuzzy and scared by the end of it

Constant feeling on being on an uneven surface

Keep making fists with my hands and wiping my head with my palms, or I keep rubbing my hands together

Walking backwards and forwards in my room telling myself "it is just anxiety, it is just anxiety" for many minutes

Lose feeling in my arms (not literally, as they are not numb), as though my arms are not part of me, and it becomes hard to pick up or do things as I feel I can't tell my brain to do the stuff. Like for instance pick up a DVD off the shelf, I can do it fine, but it is as though almost I shouldn't be able to. I remember when I was 15 and did LSD (I am not proud, but it was just something I did back then, I haven't done any drugs since I was 17 and I am 30 now) and I was playing a video game and it felt as though my hands on the controller were not part of me, I joked with friends that someone else is using the controller as even though I was playing it I felt like I wasn't, it is the exact same feeling

Things very slowly move about in my vision, as though nothing is bolted down

Difficulty talking, even close friends. I sometimes feel as though I can't think of the words needed, or that my brain can't tell my mouth what to say, as though I am working on half the speed my mind should be. Also sometimes my mind feels blank or my mouth/jaw feels light and hard to co-ordinate with my brain

I can never remember if I just put sugar in my coffee, so I always have to taste it, even though I only just put sugar in so should remember (I use pills which makes it easier to forget as it is just a couple of clicks of a dispenser). I try a door after I have locked it to make sure it is shut, even though I know I just locked it, and I often do this twice or so.

Tingling in legs that I seem to almost bring on myself. I have convinced myself that deep vibrations cause me to have hours or days of tingling in my legs, so if a helicopter or something flies past low I can virtually give myself tingling in my legs for ages

Difficulty breathing for about 2 weeks each time

Difficulty swallowing, usually soon after I have realised it is a symptom of a serious disease

I Google any new symptom I have and can usually find a relation to MS or other serious disease, which makes things worse

Feeling of strong lightheadedness when getting up out of chairs

Can't sleep if I have to do something the next day, no matter how insignificant, so I organise things on the day I do something without thinking ahead to a specific date to do something

I cry at everything that sounds sad or very happy, and I am a big bloke who never used to cry 11 years ago. Like for instance, if on TV someone gets something good happen to them for real then I will start to well up and then cry, very easily, much more than I should

I get very angry if I read a news story of rape or murder, to the point where I feel genuine anger, even though I don't know anyone involved.

I have a constant dull headache, mainly on my forehead area and around the eyes

Tinnitus

Occasions where, before I go to sleep and my eyes are closed, the whole of my vision is like a firework display, colours and shapes shooting around my vision like the new year celebrations in Sydney Australia. This is with my eyes closed even. Stops when I open my eyes. Doesn't happen every night, just some.

Palpatations

If someone touches my neck, I can often have a bad stiff neck for a few days, even though it was only slightly touched. I personally have thought I had a neck problem, so if anxiety related maybe my brain (ie ME) is making my neck stiff after it is touched due to me thinking I have a problem with it so that has made it worse. ARGGGGHHH.

Any ideas ? Thanks all.

[bosnianworrier]

The thing I ask my self after reaading this, why didn't you seek help in all these 11 years?

Anyway, what you described matches many of my symptoms. Feeling dreamy or unreal could be derealization. Imbalance could be from depersonalization. So yes anxiety (especialy untreated) can be constant.

But, since you have no diagnosis yet, I would first see your doctor and ask for blood test (vitamin b12, thyroid etc), head ct scan and maybe see an ENT to rule out possible physical causes.

If they come out clear then yea, anxiety is the issue.