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Someone with knowlage please help.
I've been having this problem for the last few years.Every so often I would feel a slight pain on my left side front and back.It would gradually increase from a sore like feeling to all out consistent pain.Also accompying this pain the feeling of not being able to yawn and take a satisfying deep breath.These symptoms would last for about 7 to 14 days then go away,but a soar dull pain in my left side would remain.This would happen to me every four to five months sometimes I would go longer . Last year the pain was so bad I decided to go to the E.R.They did a chest x ray, MRI,EKG,CAT,and blood tests and found nothing wrong.The ER doctor prescribed me a steroid for my breathing that I took for 7 days,and told me most likely I had copd.I then when to a pulmonary doctor.He did every test under the sun and found that their was nothing wrong with me.He told me that as we age the cartilage in our bones diminish leaving bone on bone,that this is what was causing me my pain in my chest.He prescribed me Ibuprofen 600 mg twice daily.The pain was less but all the symptoms were still present.Last month the pain got so bad I once again found myself back in the ER.(a different ER) They ran all the tests and again NOTHING!!! The doctor did however tell me that I have anxiety.That this is causing the breathing problems and the pain.He prescribed me Vicodin es tabs / Naproxen 500 mg 2 daily / and Ativan 2 mg twice daily.After about a week of taking this the pain was gone but the breathing problem was worse do to the Ativan. So I stopped taken the Ativan.I got very,very,very depressed. Yesterday I went to the doctor and told him everything and he gave me a prescription for klonopin 0.25(3 times a day) Now here I sit.I'm afraid to take it. I'm afraid that I will experience the same unpleasant reaction I had with the Atavan.Now Im starting to think that maybe I don't have anxiety at all! after all the first ER doctor I saw said it was COPD besides I always thought that anxiety was a phobia like being afraid of something(like flying).Are my symptoms that of which someone with anxiety exhibit?How can anxiety cause me physical pain? If any one can help I would very much appreciate it. Thank you.
I don't know what tough love has been offered here. This person has physiological symptoms and has been put on a huge number of meds none of which is designed to cure whatever the problem is. The fact someone has anxiety doesn't mean they don't also have other problems. And all my years devoting myself to causes has done nothing to alleviate my anxiety problem. Avoiding doesn't make it go away, though it might diminish the time spent worrying about it. I tend to take people's claims seriously, usually anyway, and this person has pain that should be respected. I mean, vicodin, for God's sakes! This person doesn't need "tough love" this person needs a solution.
Although erasmus2002 made some constructive points, we cannot forget that anxiety is also an illness (not a phobia), but it is treatable and certainly not comparable to leukemia. I have had anxiety/panic disorder my whole life, I just didn't know it until i was done self medicating (drinking) at age 30 and then had my first panic attack. I went through every test in the doctors could give me. Test for my heart, lungs, ekgs, mri's, ultrasounds, chest x-rays, emergency rooms from all the strokes and heart attacks I have had. (Of course they turned out to be anxiety) Finally, I was diagnosed with anxiety, along with panic disorder. Now they are saying Bipolar disorder. SIGH!
Anyway, while still in treatment, 13 years later, I still have panic attacks but they are much more controllable and less often thanks to the medication I am on. The breathing and shortness of breath comes and goes a lot still. My son is 18 and gets the same thing.
"Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in America; they affect as many as one in 10 young people. Unfortunately, these disorders are often difficult to recognize, and many who suffer from them are either too ashamed to seek help or they fail to realize that these disorders can be treated effectively.
What are the most common anxiety disorders?
Panic Disorder -- Characterized by panic attacks, panic disorder results in sudden feelings of terror that strike repeatedly and without warning. Physical symptoms include chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, abdominal discomfort, feelings of unreality, and fear of dying."
From the National Alliance of Mental Illness
Take care of your illness, if indeed you have one, then visit the kids with leukemia.
Hope you feel better
Anyway, while still in treatment, 13 years later, I still have panic attacks but they are much more controllable and less often thanks to the medication I am on. The breathing and shortness of breath comes and goes a lot still. My son is 18 and gets the same thing.
"Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in America; they affect as many as one in 10 young people. Unfortunately, these disorders are often difficult to recognize, and many who suffer from them are either too ashamed to seek help or they fail to realize that these disorders can be treated effectively.
What are the most common anxiety disorders?
Panic Disorder -- Characterized by panic attacks, panic disorder results in sudden feelings of terror that strike repeatedly and without warning. Physical symptoms include chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, abdominal discomfort, feelings of unreality, and fear of dying."
From the National Alliance of Mental Illness
Take care of your illness, if indeed you have one, then visit the kids with leukemia.
Hope you feel better
Sorry - tough love here. What you are experiencing is most likely an artifact of hypersensitivity and anxiety. You need to stop focusing on yourself and make some connection with the people around you who really are sick. Wherever you are I can guarantee that the local childrens' leukemia unit needs people to help it. If you make a real and significant commitment to them I am sure that your other concerns will fade very quickly. Take the time you would otherwise spend 'googling' your symptoms and do something really positive and you'll feel a whole lot better.
Could be anything, including kidneys. Because you've seen physicians without success, I'd recommend a good chiropractor or osteopath or acupuncturist. Preferably someone with a good background in traditional Chinese medicine.
Ativan messed with my breathing also, made it kind of shallow, but at that point I really didnt care no more, so I didnt really "freak" out about it.
Klonopin helped my breathing,
I have a undiagnosed breathing problem for a bit, and while the "you know what" hit the fan, I was finally prescribed Klonopin, I was at my witts end, and when I was filling the prescription, I could hardly breath.
My breathing problem isnt from anxiety, "I know what that one feels like" but as soon as I took the Klonopin, it help allot of the breathing problem out.
Its because it a stronger muscle relaxent, and relaxes those muscles.
Im really surprised the Moltrin didnt help your breathing.
Moltrins a anti inflamitory, and works pretty good for my Breathing.
Anyways, I suggest if it gets real bad try the Klonopin, but I suggest that you dont take them as directed "usually, Id say listen to the Doc" but if you have a physical problem going on, and they just wanna chump it up to a mental problem, you need a better Doc that can make a proper diagnosis.
Sounds like a allergy, maybe from food???
Phyc's say that it is possible for you to have a physical problem when theres no mental problem.
I, on the other hand do not believe that.
If there is a physical problem, without the mental....or the physical problem is CAUSING the anxiety, then it is a physical problem.
The chemical inballance theroy is just that THEROY.
Find yourself a good Doc, that doesnt mind you questioning, and giving your own thoughts and oppinions.
you can visit cchr.org for more info on that whole industry.
O, do you have ANY mental symptoms?
Klonopin helped my breathing,
I have a undiagnosed breathing problem for a bit, and while the "you know what" hit the fan, I was finally prescribed Klonopin, I was at my witts end, and when I was filling the prescription, I could hardly breath.
My breathing problem isnt from anxiety, "I know what that one feels like" but as soon as I took the Klonopin, it help allot of the breathing problem out.
Its because it a stronger muscle relaxent, and relaxes those muscles.
Im really surprised the Moltrin didnt help your breathing.
Moltrins a anti inflamitory, and works pretty good for my Breathing.
Anyways, I suggest if it gets real bad try the Klonopin, but I suggest that you dont take them as directed "usually, Id say listen to the Doc" but if you have a physical problem going on, and they just wanna chump it up to a mental problem, you need a better Doc that can make a proper diagnosis.
Sounds like a allergy, maybe from food???
Phyc's say that it is possible for you to have a physical problem when theres no mental problem.
I, on the other hand do not believe that.
If there is a physical problem, without the mental....or the physical problem is CAUSING the anxiety, then it is a physical problem.
The chemical inballance theroy is just that THEROY.
Find yourself a good Doc, that doesnt mind you questioning, and giving your own thoughts and oppinions.
you can visit cchr.org for more info on that whole industry.
O, do you have ANY mental symptoms?
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