New to Anxiety, weird head pains/sensations

[Brenna21]

Hi, i'm 20 years old and I have never had anxiety but always had a fear of dying, right before thanksgiving I had my first panic attack it came out of no where. I was watching a movie at my boyfriends parents house and then all a sudden my entire body from head to toe was tingling causing me to panic and then I began to shake really bad and hyperventilate. My boyfriends mom called a medical line and they talked me through it and in about 10 min it ended but for a few days after that I was really shook up about what happened I had migraines for a couple of days after that. Ever since then I now stress about choking while out in a public restaurant but I can eat fine at home, I get a lot of weird head pains, heavy headiness, headaches, my ears hurt, random tingling in my hands, head pains in my temples, my eyes are now sensitive especially when i'm scrolling online and I will have small panic attacks when I feel a new sensation or head pain. I went to the doctor and the doctor said it sounds like anxiety but its also weird that it came out of no where considering i've never suffered from it I got my labs done and everything is normal. But i'm still scared that it could be something serious and i'm not listening to my body. I stress about it every day and I feel like i'm slowly loosing myself to this, that i'm constantly living in fear. I was just wondering if anyone else has had these problems? I just cant handle all these weird sensations and weird head pains that seem to be happening everyday.

[Gemfly]

Anxiety is real. You have to ground yourself...keep telling yourself things are ok. Obsessing over the bad things makes it worse and your breathing becomes rapid. It's hard to come back from an attack. Walk, try focusing on your breathing, slowly.

Also check blood work. Low vitamins/minerals can have symptoms of anxiety, depression, pain, migraines, etc.

25 OH Vitamin D blood test.

Vitamin D3 and magnesium may be helpful

[WitsEndTree]

This is crazy   your first initial  post, its like you had an insider's scoop on my life. You said everything I was going to post!! I've seen peoole who said things that I could relate to. But not everything. Until now. I've been feeling little pangs on the side of my head, nothing too bad at all but they aren't familiar, I don't remember having pain like this before, so its making me think somethings really wrong and I'm really scared. I'm just super freaked. I'm so desperate for tests and for people to realize that I try to equip myself with the proper tools I need to help combat this. But when I have a symptom its like all logic amd reason goes out the window!! Before January of last year I never had this kind of problem ever. Last November. My bf of 5 years died, and this passed August my sons father passed. I'm working on getting back into my therapy once a week. But I just can't help but feel like something is really wrong that I don't know about. I used to think hypochondriacs were attention seekers but now I feel soo guilty for thinking that way cuz if I didn't have to deal with this I wouldnt

[birdie0907]

If you look at other threads on the anxiety forum you will see many people with all kinds of imagined exotic illnesses (which the tests have shown do not exist) that they think cropped up coincidentally when they developed anxiety. In reality they are physically ok, but it is easy to get into a rut and wonder why they are getting so much pain that won't go away.

Anxiety made me get ouches in the chest, perspire and after a while it seemed I had some numbness in the arm/shoulder so I freaked out after a few weeks of this and got an ECG. When they told me I would have been dead if I had heart troubles that long, I stopped worrying about it and never had pain since. Anxiety feeds off your fears and makes little things crop up more often and after a while things snowball. If you are lucky like me you can put it all behind you, but many people are plagued all their lives with anxiety so need constant therapy or meds.
If you can't get relaxed then try the therapy, however I suggest you see what you can QUICKLY resolve alone first. I wouldn't spend months trying to meditate out of an anxiety firestorm if you can't get anywhere, but armed with a bit of knowledge now you might be able to clear up some of your problems.

[Brenna21]

That's what I'm thinking I feel the more I think about it and over analyze about it the more I get this story in my head that something bad is happening to me. I just hate that if I do get a new pain or sensation I freak out right away I can't recall having this many pains or anything in the past. But maybe it is because I wasn't thinking much into it..

[nirvana1234]

YES YES YES. is all anxiety..
all those symptoms u mention, is stress, ur own body is responding to stress, the stress ur causing by over thinking. thinking ur going to die thinking is going to happen again. ur worry abt having a brain tumor, all that is stressing u out and of course is causing for ur anxiety to rise up.. I know is hard not to think about because is a experience u cant forget. I mean I had one of those once in the fwy. and men it took me a while to understand why, who, where. thoughts were running to my head super fast. I started feeling ligh headed, sharp pains on my temples. headaches. chest pain. I went got a ct scan thinking I had a tumor or something. nothing was wrong with me. im fine is all anxiety.. i know ur confuse but once u understand where is anxiety coming from u going to manage ur anxiety levels very well. RELAX please, don't assume too much or u r really going to go crazy... god bless..

[birdie0907]

I would put off the mri since doc says it sounds like your problem is anxiety and she didn't suggest an mri. Those things have their own risks.
The psychologist might help but also try to look at all the aches and pains and figure if you had them before, but just ignored them because you weren't looking for dire meaning from them. I got a tiny headache pain as I typed this but I know it is nothing and it will go away. If I obsess over it and try to figure if there is a connection with a brain tumor I will likely have it for the next month.

[Brenna21]

I think since her death was caused by a brain tumor and it was all in her head that thats why I over think everything with my symptoms because she died so quickly. But I agree with you and i'm going to see a psychologist soon!

[Brenna21]

I'm going to talk with a psychologist sometime soon hopefully that will help everything, im debating on going to get a MRI just so I can put my mind at ease. But at the same time if its all in my head I want to be able to get through this without going to that extent I tell myself whenever I get weird feelings that i'm ok and to just breathe. Sometimes my over thinking gets the best of me though and it doesn't work.

[Paxiled]

Interesting you bring up your friend.  Perhaps talking to a psychologist would be a good idea right now.  

[birdie0907]

It can go away as fast as it came for some people. To get to that point, you have to believe there is nothing physically wrong with you. Try working on that idea for a few minutes or as long as you want, that the doc's tests say there is nothing wrong, so that means there is NOTHING physically wrong . Write back.

[Brenna21]

My boyfriend and his mom both have anxiety too and they always tell me its all in my head, it just makes me nervous because i've never had any problems or feelings like this ever. I didn't know anxiety could just happen like this. It also doesn't help that I had a close friend pass away almost a year ago from a brain tumor that developed within in 3 weeks. But in her case it got to the point where she couldn't drive or text because she couldn't see. I just hate that i've lost myself in this because I used to be so care free, it makes me feel a lot better knowing i'm not alone!

[birdie0907]

"I get a lot of weird head pains, heavy headiness, headaches, my ears hurt, random tingling in my hands, head pains in my temples, my eyes are now sensitive especially when i'm scrolling online"

It is not unusual that anxiety came from nowhere - it does that to people. Unfortunately the consequence of the anxiety is that it makes you over-analyze yourself. Anxiety is a new situation for you which makes you over-analyze your body every time you twitch, itch or ouch because you think there must be dire meaning in it. The more you ponder the more often you will get an ouch because it is just a nervous reaction - in reality it is probably nothing to fear. If you read the last 3 posts (written within the last 22 hours) to this link I provided below you will see what I mean - you aren't alone in having anxiety make you think you have a physical problem - your doc tested you and there isn't one so that is good..  
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Anxiety/just-want-someone-to-talk-to-/show/2068530?personal_page_id=308570