I Don't Know Where This Came From

[NewToThis]

Hello Everyone,
I am new here and was hoping that this site will provide me with some comfort/support. First off, I'd like to share that I am a 22 year old female that is very healthy and I do not have much disease/illnesses that run in my family. I am a nursing student and work in an acute care hospital as a CNA. I started feeling very strange around August when the semester began. I was having chest pain, dizzy spells and Shortness of breath for about 2 weeks and finally decided to go in to get it checked out. They ran a bunch of tests (EKG, chest XRay, blood tests) and found nothing wrong. I was okay for about 3 weeks and my symptoms started coming back. I have been having very strange symptoms like weird pains in my arms and legs and random head aches that I never usually get. My problem is that I already know so much from my career and schooling so I end up looking in my textbooks and on Google for symptoms. I have feared they I am going to have a DVT/PE, heart attack, stroke, anyeurism, brain tumor, lung cancer and ovarian cancer. I have nightmares every night and fear falling asleep. I grind my teeth really bad at night and sometimes worry I will end up breaking my teeth because they hurt so bad. I have also been experiencing panic attacks in lecture and in other lecture-like settings. I have never experienced this before and it makes me feel very depressed because my mom & dad are extremely worried and my fiance is also worried about me. I feel so alone and lost and fear the absolute worst. My mom helped me set up an appointment to go to a therapist. I call my mom at least 3 times a day and the verge of crying. Can someone please help me figure out what is going in with me?

 

[Concernedgal]

You and I both know from experience from the medical field that our bodies have a natural (fight or flight response ) and we also know if that when you are in extreme stress or even if it's a chemical imbalance in our brains this ( fight or flight response can cause some weird symptoms. Your lungs hurt and your chest hurts... that means that your brain thinks that your running away from danger, same for when you have shortness of breath. And we both also know that when we have tingling feeling in our extremities. .. it's because of hyperventilation. It's a reaction that happens in our body when your body is harboring more carbon dioxide than oxygen . I also learned that in my experience with this anxiety disorder for 15 years is that if you give your anxiety attention. .. than it will get stronger. This is something that you are going to have to live with now.. it's a chronic disorder. You will be asked to self calm yourself like saying to yourself.... I am not dying ...this is my anxiety. You will learn breathing techniques , possibly be given an anti anxiety medication such as a benzodiazapine or a milder busparon hydrochloride aka (busbar). Of course they will try to prescribe you a long term treatment such as an ssri. Yuck.. ssri. Lol. Anyways.. most of all you made a good start coming here.. you need to be able to talk about this with other anxiety sufferers. Welcome.

 

[XmasCarol52]

Hello Everyone,
I am new here and was hoping that this site will provide me with some comfort/support. First off, I'd like to share that I am a 22 year old female that is very healthy and I do not have much disease/illnesses that run in my family. I am a nursing student and work in an acute care hospital as a CNA. I started feeling very strange around August when the semester began. I was having chest pain, dizzy spells and Shortness of breath for about 2 weeks and finally decided to go in to get it checked out. They ran a bunch of tests (EKG, chest XRay, blood tests) and found nothing wrong. I was okay for about 3 weeks and my symptoms started coming back. I have been having very strange symptoms like weird pains in my arms and legs and random head aches that I never usually get. My problem is that I already know so much from my career and schooling so I end up looking in my textbooks and on Google for symptoms. I have feared they I am going to have a DVT/PE, heart attack, stroke, anyeurism, brain tumor, lung cancer and ovarian cancer. I have nightmares every night and fear falling asleep. I grind my teeth really bad at night and sometimes worry I will end up breaking my teeth because they hurt so bad. I have also been experiencing panic attacks in lecture and in other lecture-like settings. I have never experienced this before and it makes me feel very depressed because my mom & dad are extremely worried and my fiance is also worried about me. I feel so alone and lost and fear the absolute worst. My mom helped me set up an appointment to go to a therapist. I call my mom at least 3 times a day and the verge of crying. Can someone please help me figure out what is going in with me?

Hi and welcome,with me whenever I get sick I get very bad anxieties and develop a panic attack ,just this past week I have had two stomach problems it feels like the nerves in my chests are jumping around and are causing me to have trouble relaxing and i gag.I have gerd which doesnt help much I use to look up my symptoms all the time but not anymore because it just upsets me to much. I hate this feeling taking my meds hasnt helped any.I feel more anxious. I try to lay down and relax put my hand over my heart but it feels like it is jumping,it scares the heck out of me. I am sorry that you are not feeling well and by the way welcome to the family.

 

[NewToThis]

You and I both know from experience from the medical field that our bodies have a natural (fight or flight response ) and we also know if that when you are in extreme stress or even if it's a chemical imbalance in our brains this ( fight or flight response can cause some weird symptoms. Your lungs hurt and your chest hurts... that means that your brain thinks that your running away from danger, same for when you have shortness of breath. And we both also know that when we have tingling feeling in our extremities. .. it's because of hyperventilation. It's a reaction that happens in our body when your body is harboring more carbon dioxide than oxygen . I also learned that in my experience with this anxiety disorder for 15 years is that if you give your anxiety attention. .. than it will get stronger. This is something that you are going to have to live with now.. it's a chronic disorder. You will be asked to self calm yourself like saying to yourself.... I am not dying ...this is my anxiety. You will learn breathing techniques , possibly be given an anti anxiety medication such as a benzodiazapine or a milder busparon hydrochloride aka (busbar). Of course they will try to prescribe you a long term treatment such as an ssri. Yuck.. ssri. Lol. Anyways.. most of all you made a good start coming here.. you need to be able to talk about this with other anxiety sufferers. Welcome.

Thank you so much for replying. This does make me feel so much better. Even though I know how to rationalize the symptoms I have, in the back of my mind I am always wondering, "what if?". It is so frustrating and makes it difficult to enjoy life. I am very hopeful about the appointment with a behavioral therapist I have soon and will be holding off on medications for now. Thanks again for the support, it means so much.

 

[Concernedgal]

Anytime. We all need each other. And just so you know... you will always be saying "what if?". Because just because we know the mechanism of anxiety disorders doesn't mean will still don't say "why me"? It's natural to be confused right now. After all this time ... I still wonder why. I don't think that will ever go away.

 

[janemariesayed]

Hello Everyone,
I am new here and was hoping that this site will provide me with some comfort/support. First off, I'd like to share that I am a 22 year old female that is very healthy and I do not have much disease/illnesses that run in my family. I am a nursing student and work in an acute care hospital as a CNA. I started feeling very strange around August when the semester began. I was having chest pain, dizzy spells and Shortness of breath for about 2 weeks and finally decided to go in to get it checked out. They ran a bunch of tests (EKG, chest XRay, blood tests) and found nothing wrong. I was okay for about 3 weeks and my symptoms started coming back. I have been having very strange symptoms like weird pains in my arms and legs and random head aches that I never usually get. My problem is that I already know so much from my career and schooling so I end up looking in my textbooks and on Google for symptoms. I have feared they I am going to have a DVT/PE, heart attack, stroke, anyeurism, brain tumor, lung cancer and ovarian cancer. I have nightmares every night and fear falling asleep. I grind my teeth really bad at night and sometimes worry I will end up breaking my teeth because they hurt so bad. I have also been experiencing panic attacks in lecture and in other lecture-like settings. I have never experienced this before and it makes me feel very depressed because my mom & dad are extremely worried and my fiance is also worried about me. I feel so alone and lost and fear the absolute worst. My mom helped me set up an appointment to go to a therapist. I call my mom at least 3 times a day and the verge of crying. Can someone please help me figure out what is going in with me?

Hi there NewToThis and a very warm welcome to this forum. If you are looking for a place to be able to open up then you are in the right place. It really does sound like you are suffering some kind of anxiety disorder and hopefully, your therapist will be able to help you find out why you are feeling this way. It is a really horrible condition to suffer and we feel alone because the majority of folk out there don't understand us.

We all know that one day we are going to die. One way or another it will always happen. Try not to think about sickness and death. Try to think about life more. Life is short enough so live every day with eagerness, if you can.