Not feeling like myself anymore

[filsanchez]

Ok so I'm actually really scared here and I do not feel like myself anymore. I don't even know where to start. Well first things first, I'm 20 years old I have TERRIBLE anxiety/ stress. I'm a HUGE hypochondriac and its affected the way I feel my body and how I see things. So it started off with an ear infection that I had that made me feel dizzy, I took antibiotics and it went away. But afterwards I still started to feel like crap. I think there is something in the back of my head. Sometimes when I sleep, I wake up and there is this weird pressure like feeling in the back of my head. Like when I'm sleeping, it feels like my head is automatically pushing itself onto to the pillow by itself which is scaring me. I get up and I feel like I'm off balance and my arms do not feel attached to my body. My arms feel very light and loose. And I still feel this weird feeling in the back of my head. It does not hurt, I have no headaches, no seizures, no pain, i just feel it go through out my head. My arms still do not feel 100% normal. Again I have terrible anxiety/stress so it makes me think that maybe it is anxiety but a part of me believes it's not. I just did a blood test and a urine test but won't find out the results for another couple of days. Sometimes I feel like I need an MRI done to make sure I'm ok. One question I have is, does anyone have any idea what this head like feeling might be? I can't find anything on the internet relating to this issue. Is it just anxiety?

[Phildo2004]

I posted a similar ? Just yesterday I get the same head pressure and head tightness and weird feelings in my head. I've dealt with panic and anxiety for years now and I'm 30 I've come to the relization that  if something is going to happen WHOCH ITS NOT SO DONT PANIC but I have no control over it. I have those head feelings and it's scary you think anurisim & tumor etc. I currently take Paxil & Xanax but my Dr has assured me that the mind is an awful and powerful tool especially when it's in panic mode. My pressure is more towards the front and crown and some back pressure of it was just the head stuff I could deal with that but paired with my anxiety it makes me freak out and and go into full blown attack. It could even be sinuses too. Mr Dr has also said that 99.9% of Annurisim & Brain Tumor cases are family related such as your family would have a history of those types of "diseases" that has helped me but I still get weird head pressure and not so much pain just weird pressure I've kind of just learned to cope with it because it's not a pain or anything I can't take just a weird headache and it doesn't get worse with a cough or any movements but I will say it feels like my inside my head is "bleeding" I know it's not but that's what it feels like. As far as med care goes I go my my local Clark County Mental Health here in Ohio bc I don't have insurance I work but no insurance so it's all free except your meds of course which I found out if I ask for samples from my Dr I normally get. Walgreens also has a cool club it's pricey to join idk exactly $20-$40 between there but it's good for a year and cuts med prices in half. ALSO if you have a smart phone Download an app called GOOD RX and simply type in a med and it'll tell you which place is the cheapest around you and provide a code you simply show to the cashier. Anyway I hope I've helped ease your mind a little bit you don't have any kind of brain problems it's simply the world of anxiety!!

[JGF25]

What does your doctor say?  Have you ever seen a psychologist for your anxiety?  It probably is anxiety only becasue you say you have TERRIBLE anxiety/stress.  My question is who have you seen to learn how to get a handle on this anxiety?  It is good to rule out the physical so that you can concentrate on the mental part of it.  We can become so anxious and stressed that we physically feel ill.  It also I believe makes us hyper-aware of things that are going on.  Something that you key in on, a non-anxious person wouldn't even bat an eye at you know.  They would think the thought and it would go away.  We get stuck on these types of thoughts.  Let me know if you have seen anybody.

[filsanchez]

Sorry for the late reply, I actually got the blood and urine tests back and everything checked out to be fine. I used to see a psychologist but I felt like he was not helping me much. I took anxiety medication three years ago but stopped taking them when I started to feel better.  My main concern is this weird head pressure that I'm feeling when I sleep. I wake up and feel this weird pressure like feeling the back of my head and it goes down my neck sometimes. It happens when i sleep and it makes me feel a bit off balance. Is it affecting my nerves in anyway? That is my pretty much my main concern at the moment. It also makes me feel like my arms are light.