Hi everyone. I am new. I have been diagnosed as having anxiety disorder. Since summer last year I have had alot of panic attacks. But before that I had heart problems. I am overweight. My heart rate at rest is 45-50 most days. Every day I feel like I am breathing through wet cloth and when I go up stairs I am very out of breath. I also am light headed all the time. I have had a 24hour ecg and a echocardiogram. The doctors said that my heart was fine. What I want to know is would anxiety disorder cause the light headedness and breathlessness?
Any information would be great thank you.
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Asthma? You never know (I have it. Onset was mid 40s. Always assumed it was genetic but not quite sure now). Anyway, when I had it but it had not been diagnosed, I would sometimes worry myself into having an attack. Please excuse me if I am peeing into the wind.
No. 1 on your list is one with which I struggle. I walk the miles, but the weight doesn’t come off. It has always irritated me (I was seriously fit when younger). It is only recently that I found out the over production of hormones makes it nigh impossible to drop weight unless you have the appetite of mouse and the physical activity of an endurance athlete.
Thanks for the replys. It could be asthma. I am founding out alot about anxiety and how it can effect the body physically. I might try walks again. I even have poles which might help.
One thing I forgot to mention. I have the symptoms all the time. This is a typical day for me. I get up after a bad sleep due to dizzyness, palpitations, breathlessness and a missing heart beat. Thats while I am sleeping/trying to sleep. I get out of bed and I am out of breath. I go about my day dealing with the symptoms I mentioned before. I don't really overeat unless something stressful has happened. Then I dive into the chocolates and cakes. If I try any form of exercise that puts my heart rate up over 110 then it stays like that for the rest of the day. If I restrict my calories to much like with 5:2 they I get so dizzy the room spins. When I get up out of the seated position I am out of breath. I feel like something is in my throat most of the time and when I eat i do it slowly incase i choke. Thats most of the everyday symptoms. Thats not including what happens when I have an attack. Is it normal to have these symptoms all the time if its just anxiety disorder. When this first started I was told I had av block and bradycardia. Now they all seam to think its just the anxiety. Any ideas would be great.
update. I went and saw my gp. she said that it was anxiety and the panic attacks. I told her that exercise of any kind got me more out if breath than usual. I also had chest pain when I tried doing some weight training. but still the same reply. so I saw my talking therapies therapist. I told her about the chest pain, breathlessness and dizzyness also my feet have been swelling. she said I needed to talk to a cardiologist or gp because she believed that the stress and anxiety could cause some of the symptoms but not all. and that the symptoms shouldn't be all the time. also that I shouldn't have chest pain that goes down my arm and up into my neck due to anxiety. she said that will having a panic attack these symptoms can happen but not when I am lying in my been feeling calm. so I will be writing to my gp and hopefully get some where.
update. I saw my talking therapies therapist today. I filled in this ptsd form. she said I have ptsd. she the said I need to talk to my gp or cardiologist about the chest pain and breathlessness. so I got an emergency appointment. I told my gp about my symptoms. she thinks I have angina and is referring me to the rapid chest pain clinic. she was very concerned. so after a year and a half of telling them things aren't right I am finally getting help.
update. I talked to the rapid access chest pain clinic today. she said I have angina. they are going to do a ct scan to see what can be done. also my therapist told me that I have ptsd. add fibromyalgia to that plus the anxiety and this could get me pip. so I am going to my local hub tomorrow to get help.
change of plan. due to the stress that just thinking about pip is causing i have decided not to do anything. because I don't want to cause any more stress. I am worried that going after pip and going through the process will bring on a panic attack and then may be a heart attack. so I think I will wait.
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