Anxiety...Headaches

[LouLou91979]

I have spent a better part of the last year back and forth to doctors.  The diagnosis is: anxiety.

It started last year in June, when I was overcome with a racing heart, feeling lightheaded and dizzy and was shaking.  The intense feeling finally subsided, but I would get waves of dizziness the rest of the day and into the next morning.  My Blood Pressure was fine.  I went to the doctor the next day and had blood work and an EKG run.  Everything came back fine.  After the second big wave of dizziness, I went back to the doctor.  I was prescribed Lexapro, which I took for two days and then went off of.  The side effects were horrific.  The doctors explained what anxiety was doing to my body and said that I should try Yoga or speaking to someone.  Neither of which I have done.  

Shortly after learning to cope with the dizzy spells (which occur weekly), my vision became distorted on occasion.  It was more like I couldn't focus and felt like I couldn't see depth and my hearing felt intensified.  Along with the distorted vision and the dizzy spells, I would get electric shocks of pain in my abdomen/stomach.  Quick pulses of pain that go away as quick as they come.  

CT Scans, clean.  Although, through the CT Scans the doctors discovered I have ovarian cysts.  I was put on birth control to try and monitor them.  After 8 months on the BC, I was taken off.  The week after stopping the BC, I had a severe headache for straight 4 days.  The headaches subsided, the Doctors thought it was my body adjusting to hormone levels.  Since then...I have regular headaches and occasional sharp short headaches.  I am trying not to over think it...the CT Scan on my brain came back fine, the MRI was fine.  

My question...hormonal headaches or anxiety headaches?  Around the time that the whole anxiety started, I noticed that I began sweating tremendously...which was very unlike me.  I could go to the gym and work out for hours without breaking a sweat, suddenly in June I was sweating through my shirts just sitting still.  

I wasn't sure if this could be a perimenopause causing everything.  I'm a 30 years female.  Any thoughts?

[phoenix888]

I have been going through the same thing you are going through exvept instead of severe headaches I get this intense pressure in my head like someone picked me up by my head and i get a numbness tingling feeling in my hands and feet from time to time. Im 17 so i dont have insurance but my mom said she would let me see a neurologist to get it checked out.  I to was told I ahve anxiety. but when these thnigns happen i only panic after i start feeling something strange.

[suzi-q]

Sounds like anxiety and/or depression.  I have a very similar story.  If it is interfering with your life, I suggest you see a psychiatrist/psychologist to discuss what you could do to help you deal with these sensations.  Mine was so bad that I was put on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.  I have been on them now for 15 years, but I must say, with time I got my life back...still suffer with anxiety at times, but nothing like in the past.  I hope this helps.

[suzi-q]

Sounds like anxiety and/or depression.  I have a very similar story.  If it is interfering with your life, I suggest you see a psychiatrist/psychologist to discuss what you could do to help you deal with these sensations.  Mine was so bad that I was put on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.  I have been on them now for 15 years, but I must say, with time I got my life back...still suffer with anxiety at times, but nothing like in the past.  I hope this helps.

[theo777]

i get headaches and numbness from anxiety. it takes a lot of klonopin for those sensations to go away. anywhere from 4 to 6 milligrams a day. i didnt necessarily feel anxious though. anxiety presents itself in ways that we wouldn't characterize it as such.

[LouLou91979]

I also wanted to mention that I also get pains in my chest from time to time.  I had an event recorder, which did not show anything irregular in my heart and the doctors said my heart and lungs sound great.