Sesame Seed
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Hi!
I'm new here and am hoping someone may have had a similar potential symptom? A little background on me, I have been diagnosed with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and OCD (which usually coincides with my anxiety). I've been through a lot of trauma through life and most recently when my grandma who I was closest to passed a few years back I went through a shock that caused me to not only develop severe health and death anxiety, but to also forget what feelings were like (such as what it felt like to have a cold, or cramps from my period, etc...). It was so extreme I lost almost a month of my life that I literally can't remember.
I have since gone through a lot more loss, so much unexpected, without giving details, suffice to say it was extreme. The latest after doing some healing threw me back into the weird loss of memory with feelings. In the past it has helped me exponentially to speak with others who have anxiety and my doctor did inform me I have very high cortisol levels from extreme long term stress to which gives me a pretty ridiculous physical response.
With everything going on, job loss, personal exposure... I definitely developed some intense anxiety to the point of being ill for a few days. In the last couple days the major symptoms have subsided, however I have developed something interesting that I do not know I have experienced before. To keep this short-ish, I am curious if anyone has dealt with the following as an anxiety symptom:
Currently when I breathe in deeply I get a bit of almost a tickle in the back of my throat. I can sort of feel it in my ears, under my tongue and a little bit in the very upper portion of my lungs. It's a feeling that reminds me a little bit of the start of a cold. Perhaps like what you might feel going out in super cold air and taking a deep breath and not being used to it. Sometimes this feeling triggers me to cough. I already have a little cough off and on which seems to come from nowhere, but I have been told this is a very common anxiety symptom even when one doesn't necessarily feel anxious.
The only thing of note with this, my back has been a bit sore (not unusual for me) and seems to be more so due to anxiety tension since I hold a lot of that in my shoulders and upper back. So after 6 days of pretty strong tension, I have had less, but that's when this feeling started. When I adjust position (stretch my back and shoulders back for example) and take a deep breath it's fine. So that said, it's not terribly consistent. Mostly it's just there and triggers a cough here and there. I'm sure if I'm paying more attention to it, I notice it more and when I don't it's not there in the same way.
Thank you for reading and for any potential responses. It may seem a weird one, but hoping it's nothing but anxiety, since the last thing I need right now is to be coming down with something. I feel fine-ish outside of that, so it's just odd and the only thing I can think of is anxiety given the state of things as of late.
Cheers!
I'm new here and am hoping someone may have had a similar potential symptom? A little background on me, I have been diagnosed with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and OCD (which usually coincides with my anxiety). I've been through a lot of trauma through life and most recently when my grandma who I was closest to passed a few years back I went through a shock that caused me to not only develop severe health and death anxiety, but to also forget what feelings were like (such as what it felt like to have a cold, or cramps from my period, etc...). It was so extreme I lost almost a month of my life that I literally can't remember.
I have since gone through a lot more loss, so much unexpected, without giving details, suffice to say it was extreme. The latest after doing some healing threw me back into the weird loss of memory with feelings. In the past it has helped me exponentially to speak with others who have anxiety and my doctor did inform me I have very high cortisol levels from extreme long term stress to which gives me a pretty ridiculous physical response.
With everything going on, job loss, personal exposure... I definitely developed some intense anxiety to the point of being ill for a few days. In the last couple days the major symptoms have subsided, however I have developed something interesting that I do not know I have experienced before. To keep this short-ish, I am curious if anyone has dealt with the following as an anxiety symptom:
Currently when I breathe in deeply I get a bit of almost a tickle in the back of my throat. I can sort of feel it in my ears, under my tongue and a little bit in the very upper portion of my lungs. It's a feeling that reminds me a little bit of the start of a cold. Perhaps like what you might feel going out in super cold air and taking a deep breath and not being used to it. Sometimes this feeling triggers me to cough. I already have a little cough off and on which seems to come from nowhere, but I have been told this is a very common anxiety symptom even when one doesn't necessarily feel anxious.
The only thing of note with this, my back has been a bit sore (not unusual for me) and seems to be more so due to anxiety tension since I hold a lot of that in my shoulders and upper back. So after 6 days of pretty strong tension, I have had less, but that's when this feeling started. When I adjust position (stretch my back and shoulders back for example) and take a deep breath it's fine. So that said, it's not terribly consistent. Mostly it's just there and triggers a cough here and there. I'm sure if I'm paying more attention to it, I notice it more and when I don't it's not there in the same way.
Thank you for reading and for any potential responses. It may seem a weird one, but hoping it's nothing but anxiety, since the last thing I need right now is to be coming down with something. I feel fine-ish outside of that, so it's just odd and the only thing I can think of is anxiety given the state of things as of late.
Cheers!
