Help me please

[Cimmy]

Well I’m back again, sorry to be such a pain, I’m just so fearful, I’ve had a lot of tests done for stomach issues and they have come back ok, so my mind has decided to create new symptoms. I’m am so consumed with anxiety and don’t know how to deal with it. My gp has more or less said get on with it, but my ailments are real. My family just look at me like I’m a stranger and I feel like a stranger, I feel sick, dizzy when I stand up, my legs are wobbly, shortness of breath, my head is muzzy, I’m shaky and I don’t know what to do, I can’t leave the house without being consumed with panic. Please please help me

[sml1617]

You don’t need to just get on with it. The physical symptoms you are feeling are real and you are worthy of feeling health and calm. Have you ever seen a psychiatrist? Maybe there is a medication that could bring your base level of anxiety down so you don’t feel so sick, or a medicine you could take when you are having a panic attack of sorts

[Cimmy in reply to sml1617]

Thank you for your reply, I am on medication, mitrazapine and propranolol, I think I need to bother my go again because I can’t go on like this, I feel like I’m being overwhelmed all the time, I’m am at this moment crying into my tea because I have to fight another day and I’m exhausted, I just feel so unwell but I know it’s my anxiety but my mind keepS telling me it’s something else. I was always an out going positive person and now I feel empty. I would do anything to be me again, sorry to push all this on you but thank you for listening

[Hidden]

First of all, you're not a pain.

Second of all, I've been here before with what my psychiatrist called "psychosomatic" symptoms. Psychosomatic doesn't mean that the symptoms aren't real because they are -- they are very, very real!

[xsor in reply to Hidden]

Just wanna day your not alone hun it is real as I suffer physical symptoms every day you are not a pain you are poorly and please do keep on at your doctor I’m always on the phone chin up you will get through this

[Hidden in reply to xsor]

Is this meant for Cimmy?

[xsor in reply to Hidden]

Yes love

[Hope4me1]

I just wrote a post that mirrors this one! Yes, I’ve had gastric upset for about a week and also close to tears at any given moment. I am trying to stay positive and tell myself this too shall pass, but it’s debilitating. You are definitely not alone in your battle. I am on a low dose of Prozac and have taken klonopin, but I don’t want to depend on it. I have successfully slowly come off of it after two years and I would rather stay away from it. I take a very low dose only when needed 1/4 of a 0.5 tab.