extreme anxiety

[khali60]

hi, i am 61 yrs old but very active, I practice Mountain Biking and skiing.  For around four years now I have been suffering with anxiety and its gets worst every time.  Right now I am always with tremors or feelings of vibrations, shakes inside my body that I can't control. It is driving me crazy.  My brain hurts at the base where the cerebelum is and is always heavy and tense there, it runs to other parts of my brain like to the sides also and I am feeling like my mouth and everything trembles.  Feel like in a daze, I have strange feeling with my heart and have to take Xanax more thatn usual lately. I only take like .25 mg but now I cut that in half and take it during the day if I feel this feeling driving me up a wall.

Does anyone have these feelings, it is driving me crazy specially when I try to sleep at night they get unbearable and don't let me sleep.  Don't want to take those medications that psychiatrists give since I have read other people that have take them and they get worst feelings and even more anxiety.  Does anyone know anything that can help I am going crazy and my brain hursts all the time.  HELP!!!

[khali60]

Hi Mammo, thank you very much for your input, I am making an appointment with a neurologist to see what he can do to help.  Will keep you posted.

Khali60

[mammo]

We never want to assume that anything is anxiety related until we've seen our doctor and ruled out other causes.  I think this is what you need to do and go from there.  Anxiety is like any other medical condition that requires daily medication to control the symptoms.  Don't pay any attention to the horror stroies you may have read, the good far outweigh the bad.  I'm the same age as you and just as active walking 6 miles every day, running 90 steps, and tennis 3-4 times a week.  I take an antidepressant and anxiety medication and it hasn't even slowed me down!  You need to see your doctor.  Take care.