im not sure what to do anymore

[xchrisx]

so bear with me cause theres alot to explain.
so ever since the every end of august iv been feeling incredibly off. it started with feeling sorta off balance and detatched from my body i guess. later that week I then started to feel a pressure feeling in the back of my head.
i ended up going to the doctor, got a check up and blood work done. they did a full cbc, and check for anemia and thyroid problems, everything came up normal.
these feelings come and go and sometimes the pressure is in the front of my head.
so in october then, its not happening as often, but i random things still happen like feeling anxious, hyperventilating, palpitations, that headache people get when they stand up. like blood pressure related. my limbs randomly ache. my back and neck also get randomly sore
more recently i had a weekend where after eating some macaroni i had horrible diarrhea and stomach and pelvic cramps

so im not sure whats wrong, its been a rough 2 months.
whatever my body does i look it up and end up getting myself paranoid
so far its gone through my head that iv had a tumor, meningitus, fibromyalgia, an unruptured anyerism and many more things.

alot of people have told me im just paranoid, or its anxiety, or depression and id lnow by now if it was something serious but still im not convinced,

im 16,male,118lbs
probably have bad posture
i probably done sleep enough or eat enough or drink enough fluids

so please help me out here

[xchrisx]

Exactly like iv been waking up sweaty lately yet I don't seem to have a fever

Iv been having random waves of feeling sick to my stomach yet I can still eat

I'm so frustrated and I don't know what's what anymore

[Emil21]

I've had a terrible neck pain (and still do to a degree). One day it got so bad, the pain was the worst thing I experienced in my whole life. It was a weird combination of pain and pressure, I thought my arteries are going to burst or something XD Gave me a really big scare. So I guess anxiety can act in every part of your body. It is just frustrating not knowing if the pain is anxiety related or not.

[xchrisx]

So now iv developed a dry cough, neck pain when j tilt my head back and forth or if I try and touch my neck toy chest.

Iv also been coughing up some yellow phlegm

So I'm wondering that maybe this could be a weird sinus infection made worse by my anxiety

[Emil21]

Well, I really think it caffeine could be my problem too. I read that somewhere once, but didn't think much of it. Now I do, because I really really take to much caffeine. I drink coffee like 3 times a day, 6 cups or more daily! And I also drink Coke and what not. Sometimes I drink tee before I go to sleep, and I think that is also not a really good idea. Although it can have a calming effect on people, with anxiety it makes things only worse. I will try to lower my caffeine intake and see what happens. Thanks for your advice.

[hmf099]

diet can have an impact, i can't have caffeine either, it makes my anxiety ten times worse. however mine isn't just diet, i've tried vegan and raw diets and still suffered some amount of anxiety. therapy is my best advice, it helped me the most.

[gem632]

Hi there, I suffered for 2 years with what was "diagnosed" as anxiety. I went through the works, with no real improvement. What I would like to point out is that I have worked out what my problem was (on my own, doctors didnt help at all!) that I have a weird reaction to caffeine and msg. Before you write this off as not your problem, hear me out. I have always loved and eaten these things with no ill effect. Then one day, boom, all my problems started. Insomnia and palpitations to start with, it would even wake me from my sleep. It snowballed into lack of concentration at work, I was like a zombie from little sleep. I had attacks of vertigo (dizziness and spinning) and was so paranoid at times I would startle at everything. I ended up in emergency several times,I began to think I was going mental! I too got bouts of severe cramping and diarrea ( not that often though). When i realised that some days i was ok and others not, I started looking for the answer to why. I looked at my diet and realised after trial and error that if I eliminated caffeine (not just coffee but tea cola and chocolate) and msg from my diet,whammo, I AM FINE!!!!!!!!! I couldnt believe it after two years of suffering horribly, left my job, felt like a freak and it was that simple!! So I wonder howe many "anxiety disorders"are diet related??? Just try it and see, you have nothing to lose. I am still in the process of working out which msgs are the culprit as i can have small amounts of some ( there is 620, 621, 627, and 3 something i think) 620 sets me off really bad and i cant even look at chinese (thats how i figured out the connection to msg). Please consider it though, your symptoms sound very much like mine were.Good luck!

[Emil21]

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[Emil21]

I'd like to say that I agree with alvaa, this is really something a lot of us experienced. I have anxiety for about 7 months now, and most of that time, it was a living hell for me to deal with it. At first, I didn't even know about anxiety (I mean, I did know it existed, just didn't know what it really is) so I had a lot of things passing trough my mind all the time, and the Internet was really as much help as it wasn't. I found my symptoms could mean heart problems, lungs, cancer, some artery being clogged, and unruptured anyerism. The last one gave me the biggest scare, because I checked all the other things (done oh so many EKGs (maybe 10 XD), went to a cardio doctor who assured me (after a one hour long heart ultrasound with Color Doppler) that everything was ok with my heart, and I checked my lungs, spine, blood and what not. So of course, I thought it must be the aneurysm. Its my "last option" and I was really scared of it. It is in the nature of anxiety to think that, I understand, but whenever I feel it taking over me, I can't think rationally and It really is like the fist time: fear, fear and more fear. The last month was really good, I didn't have any symptoms (taking Xanax, 0.25 mg, and only half of one pill) and I thought it was all gone, but it doesn't work that way, unfortunately. It came again just like the first time, out of nowhere, when I was doing nothing different form every day. So here I am, again obsessing about it XD I guess it is a little better, cause I cant think this way: My symptoms begun 7 months ago->if it was something serious like my heart, lungs, aneurysm or cancer it would get worse by now and it wouldn't just stop for a month->all my doctors (and there were a lot of them, like 10) said I was fine, and all the tests agree->I got better after taking anxiety pills. That line of thinking seems to help and calm me down a little when it gets really bad.
Oh my God, this is a long post XD Hope you are not bored by it, I would really like for you to get better and know you are not alone in this :)

[alvaa]

= Me!!!

Man, this is the story of a whole lot of us. You are not alone. Panic attacks come in many ways and it starts getting your mind to racing wondering, do I have cancer, am I having a heart attack, etc... You get checked out but it doesn't help, or maybe it did at first but not now. Therapy with a professional will help and so will the medications that they have these days....and I hate to take medication but it does help.