happybwm97
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Hi everyone,
Read below for a little more information about me and my journey with anxiety just to give you an insight to the symptoms I’ve felt. I have severe health anxiety and I just feel like some new symptom occurs every day. Today I have been feeling this sharp pain in my left leg. On my shin and up my shin. It’s like a shooting pain that comes and then goes away. I do a lot of barre and my mom said maybe I have shin splints but I don’t think that’s what shin splints feels like. I am so anxious and I looked up leg pain and it came back with bone cancer then went through the list of symptoms of bone cancer and I have basically had all the symptoms. I am so terrified and so anxious about this. Has anyone else experienced a shooting pain in their leg that is associated with anxiety or anything similar? I don’t know what to do. I am just so sad and scared that I have some terminal disease, bone cancer, or any other cancer. Any help would be so appreciated.
I have had bad anxiety all my life. Been on an antidepressant since age 14 and it has helped tremendously. After 8.5 years of being on it, I felt like it had stopped working so I talked to my doctor about switching medications and he agreed. I tapered off of my 150mg over the course of like 2 weeks and then decided I didn’t need an antidepressant because I was feeling so good. Then 10 days later, I was feeling really tight in my chest and throat and that evening I had terrible pains in my chest and feeling like I wasn’t in my body. This was my first panic attack, it was followed by about 5-6 more in the days after. I wasn’t sleeping and I was horribly anxious. I went on a different antidepressant for 3 days and then switched from my GP, who was managing the medicine, to my psychiatrist. He decided he wanted me to stop the medicine my GP had prescribed and started me on another medication. This medication was horrible I had terrible side effects and felt terrible. So he took me off of that and I tapered off and then stopped completely. He wanted to give my system a chance to completely rid itself of the medication before reassessing and starting me on something new. I had panic attacks after getting off, I lost my appetite, felt so low and scared, had chest pains, digestive issues, etc. then after about 3 weeks of being off he started me on something new.
I haven’t been the same since getting off of my original antidepressant. Everyday is a new symptom and im convinced that something is wrong with me. First the chest pains (I went to the cardiologist and did all the tests and nothing is wrong with my heart), then a few weeks later I started getting pins and needles feeling and numbness in my legs/feet, arms/hands. I began obsessing over that, my muscles felt weak and I was convinced I had MS or a tumor somewhere. The numbness/tingling still comes and goes. And terrible brain fog.
Now I have this feeling like I can’t breathe as freely as I once could, I feel like I’m almost choking, that something is smothering me. I don’t smoke, never have. This feeling goes away when I’m preoccupied but as soon as im idle it comes back. I find myself forcing myself to take deep breaths, which sometimes I can’t even fulfill. I feel like something is sitting on my chest/stomach. I’m so scared I have like MS, ALS, some sort of cancer or serious disease. I don’t know what to do anymore. Im only 22 and I just want to feel like myself again. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Sorry for such a long post but I feel so lost. Everyone talks about these symptoms happening during a panic attack, but never just chronically happening. Any insight or response would be so appreciated
Read below for a little more information about me and my journey with anxiety just to give you an insight to the symptoms I’ve felt. I have severe health anxiety and I just feel like some new symptom occurs every day. Today I have been feeling this sharp pain in my left leg. On my shin and up my shin. It’s like a shooting pain that comes and then goes away. I do a lot of barre and my mom said maybe I have shin splints but I don’t think that’s what shin splints feels like. I am so anxious and I looked up leg pain and it came back with bone cancer then went through the list of symptoms of bone cancer and I have basically had all the symptoms. I am so terrified and so anxious about this. Has anyone else experienced a shooting pain in their leg that is associated with anxiety or anything similar? I don’t know what to do. I am just so sad and scared that I have some terminal disease, bone cancer, or any other cancer. Any help would be so appreciated.
I have had bad anxiety all my life. Been on an antidepressant since age 14 and it has helped tremendously. After 8.5 years of being on it, I felt like it had stopped working so I talked to my doctor about switching medications and he agreed. I tapered off of my 150mg over the course of like 2 weeks and then decided I didn’t need an antidepressant because I was feeling so good. Then 10 days later, I was feeling really tight in my chest and throat and that evening I had terrible pains in my chest and feeling like I wasn’t in my body. This was my first panic attack, it was followed by about 5-6 more in the days after. I wasn’t sleeping and I was horribly anxious. I went on a different antidepressant for 3 days and then switched from my GP, who was managing the medicine, to my psychiatrist. He decided he wanted me to stop the medicine my GP had prescribed and started me on another medication. This medication was horrible I had terrible side effects and felt terrible. So he took me off of that and I tapered off and then stopped completely. He wanted to give my system a chance to completely rid itself of the medication before reassessing and starting me on something new. I had panic attacks after getting off, I lost my appetite, felt so low and scared, had chest pains, digestive issues, etc. then after about 3 weeks of being off he started me on something new.
I haven’t been the same since getting off of my original antidepressant. Everyday is a new symptom and im convinced that something is wrong with me. First the chest pains (I went to the cardiologist and did all the tests and nothing is wrong with my heart), then a few weeks later I started getting pins and needles feeling and numbness in my legs/feet, arms/hands. I began obsessing over that, my muscles felt weak and I was convinced I had MS or a tumor somewhere. The numbness/tingling still comes and goes. And terrible brain fog.
Now I have this feeling like I can’t breathe as freely as I once could, I feel like I’m almost choking, that something is smothering me. I don’t smoke, never have. This feeling goes away when I’m preoccupied but as soon as im idle it comes back. I find myself forcing myself to take deep breaths, which sometimes I can’t even fulfill. I feel like something is sitting on my chest/stomach. I’m so scared I have like MS, ALS, some sort of cancer or serious disease. I don’t know what to do anymore. Im only 22 and I just want to feel like myself again. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Sorry for such a long post but I feel so lost. Everyone talks about these symptoms happening during a panic attack, but never just chronically happening. Any insight or response would be so appreciated
