When one symptom goes another appears

[Ggirlangel93]

So last night i woke up after only sleeping for about an hour because my heart was beating fast and irregularly. I was nervous all night long and couldn't fall back to sleep. I felt alittle better throughout the day but just a few minutes ago i was washing dishes and when i was standing at the sink my legs were shaking. Like they were really trembling on the inside. Now i feel nervous and on edge again. I'm tired mentally and physically. It seems like i get a certain symptom for a few days and then a different one appears. I didn't have a headache for almost two weeks but now my headache is back along with a pain in the right side of the head. Lately my anxiety is out of control. When i try to calm down and try to distract myself it never really works.

 

[Worryworm]

"When I try to calm down and distract myself it never really works" - that is me too!!!

Something I try and remind myself of is that we have spent so much time amping our bodies up with anxiety and just because we try and calm ourselves down it doesn't mean those symptoms will automatically go away. I read about that a lot on anxietycentre.com (sorry if that's not allowed on here) that it takes the body quite a long time to heal once you accept it's anxiety.

 

[Alwayshere]

I am the same way! Once i feel one symptom I tend to really focus on it. When I get another symptom I focus on that one and then my first symptom disappears lol. It can be really draining at times. I do agree with WorryWorm that your body does take awhile to heal once it accepts it’s anxiety!!

 

[Daisymae]

This happens to me also. And then when it happens I start noticing every little ache or pain in my body and what it might be, always expecting it to be the worst of something fatal