Anxiety

[Hippo1117]

My doctor tells me I'm suffering from anxiety but I'm having trouble believing it cause I have been feeling dizzy and light headed night sweats trouble sleeping trouble breathing and shaky and loosing weight for about 2 months now. I have been taking Ativan and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and she has me on cipralex  for about 2 weeks and nothing is getting better. I had all the tests done on my heart because when it first started I was having heart palpitations and heavy chest but not anymore that has gone away but the other symptoms are still there and I don't feel like those symptoms are getting any better. I don't know if I trust what the doctors are telling me I feel like there is something else that they are missing. I wake up with all those feelings and I go to sleep with all those feelings if it's anxiety why do I feel like this everyday and it never goes away if anybody could help me that would be great!

[pieofpie82]

As time passes you will begin to see it is anxiety. My anxiety started with constantly having to poop. Multiple times during the day. My guts were in knots all the time. I didn't believe the Dr when she said anxiety. Two years passed and looking back it was all anxiety. Now my anxiety has a new symptom, unsteadiness when standing or walking. The mind is a powerful thing. As symptoms appear it manifests and causes you more anxiety. It s a vicious cycle.  It's like a pink elephant. Once it's in your head you can't stop thinking about it. I hope with Time it gets easier for you.

[cj29]

Anxiety can manifest itself in a myriad of ways in my experience with it.  My original experience with anxiety originally delt with concerns I had with my heart.  In my opinion, we tend to become oversensitized to every little feeling that we can relate to what we believe is physically wrong with us and also misinterepret its meaning. For example, when I first started going through this, I felt every little pain, palpatation, twitch, etc, and convinced myself that something was catastrophically wrong with me.  What you are describing is pretty much on par with how the rest of us with health anxiety started out here...in my opinion, it is pretty 'text book.'  While we all experience it in various ways, you will see patterns start to develop in how we tend to initially deal with it.

Do you have the ability to go see a counselor/therapist about this?  For me, that was the most important step in confronting this....it also had helped me to accept that my symptoms that I was experiencing were from anxiety and once I accepted even the possiblitiy that it COULD (which it was) be anxiety, I was able to learn about it and then confront it....keep us posted!

[WWEFAN86]

You are suffering from Anxiety, i have suffered with it for about 12 years. All the symptoms you have are anxiety related trust me. You are not getting better as you believe it is something other than anxiety, therefore your palpitations, lightheadedness and night sweats are still there. I still get these symptoms but it took me quite a few years to realise it was my anxiety doing this, i now just accept it.

I hope you read this comment and take care.

[Anxioussince14]

You have to accept it is anxiety.  Take it from me, u will save yourself a lot of suffering by fully taking that first step by accepting it.  Next, go and get you a psychologist or therapist who is well versed in cognitive behavioral therapy and fix your broken train of thought.