Desperate, please help. are doctors correct or is this something serious

[jay007]

im 27yrs old. for the past 2 months, i have been feeling very ill. I have this cold feeling on top back of my head like someone poured water or opened my head and blew air on my brain. i feel very weak and faint, my upper back hurts, my legs feel weak, i feel like i have something stuck in my throat. I feel weird in my chest, im nauseas.I had a standard chest x-ray, abdomin (abdomen) cat scan, tons of blood work. all normal. I have seen 2 doctors and the told me its anxiety and gave me lexapro which i have been on for a week and waiting for it to kick in. I have a brain cat scan next week, doctor says i dont need it but i insisted. my question is, can this be a correct diagnosis by the doctors. i just dont see how anxiety or stress can cause constant physical feeling of illness. I can understand having panic attack or feeling ill for an hour but I feel this way every second of the day for 2 months, it just does not let up. anyone with feedback, id appreciate it. thank you in advance

[ozark]

have you seen a cardiologist?  Maybe you need to have an ekg to check for arrythmias which sometimes cause these symptoms.....but stress and anxieety can also play a part   good luck

[jay007]

but can stress and anxiety cause my physical symptoms like my doctos tell me, it just seems a little unreal to me that i can fell this way every second of everday for 2 months from anxiety, i justr dont belive it.

[krbnctb]

Did your Dr. prescribe you any of these meds Levaquin, Tequin, Cipro or Avelox (Antibiotic) ?  Check out this website. http://www.drugvictims.org/  Anxiety & Stress can cause physical illness, but you need to look at prior to the 2 months and the past 2 months, are you under a lot of stress or do you have extra anxiety in your life currently (other than the anxiety over being ill...that can be overwhelming to say the least).  If you haven't, then you need to keep pursuing what is ailing you & if it takes being persistent, that is what you have to do.  I also know that with some illnesses, it takes a while to show up in bloodwork and there isn't always clear-cut answers. Good Luck.

[Demiguise]

They may find something showing a relay problem of conduction
of nerve msg'g but I think problem may be cranial pressure
from msg of cervical spine at entry into skull or C3-4 disk.
You mentioned back but not neck pain. If spine narrows in an
upper area, the spinal fluid can produce a sensation like you
may be describing. The CSF starts at tailbone/goes up to
skull base/enters & goes around brain & back dwn to start over
ea. 3-4 times a day. Poor posture can affect this too. As it
travels, it trips fibers to send msg's & brain interprets.
We can get physiological feedback that resembles anxiety or
fight/flight or nausea or phantom pains. Ask Dr if they can
think abt a C-Spine while you're there. Gd-luck.

[netdube]

Just to let you know I have been a sufferer of depression, anxiety and panic attacks for the past 4.5 years,  Believe me, you can absolutely feel those symptoms constantly for weeks or months at a time.  I know it is very frustrating.  Another symptom of anxiety is always thinking you have something seriously wrong with you.  (thought I was having a heart attack today).  But if all your tests were clear, I'd be willing to bet the doctors were right. You can also have real physical pain.  My medication is effexor, but I had to try 3 others before I found one that worked for me.
Good luck, let me know how you make out.

[Stephie77]

I feel for you. Im not sure what other posts you have but have you seen a rhuemetologist? an infectious disease doctor? I was diagnosed with epstein-barr back in december and then after all the bloodwork, xrays,cat scans, mri's, and even a Lymph node biopsy....they decided it was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that was escalating into Fibromyalgia. I am scheduled to see a gastroenterologist, an echocardiogram, and have a brain scan as LAST resorts to see if there is another issue, BUT I know what your saying and Im telling you now- DONT leave it alone! It wont go away, it wont get better, all you can do is control the symptoms. First thing that helped me was being put on sleep medication. When my sleep improved- my symptoms improved. I know your frustrated and feel like a hypochondriac- but this is real and it wont just go away!!