Anxiety is controlling my life!

I have been doing cbt theopy, and it helped for a little bit but now my life is spiralling out of control.. it's controlling my everyday life... I had all the other symptoms first and they slowly went away and are barly noticeable, now it's the headaches for 3 weeks.. doctors keep telling me im okay and it's nornal for a tension headache but it makes me feel really bad & it's very painful, I just want it to stop so I can carryon with my life.. I used to be so bubbly and happy now nobody wants to be around me! I've pushed a lot of people away and I feel I'm gonna be stuck lile this forever! Constantly worried if theses headache are normal? Thankyou for your reply x

Yeh i was the same with my breathing was horriable! I thought I was having a heart attack! Luckily I barly get that anymore.. because I've told myself I'm okay. And it worked! Now and again I will feel like I've lost my breathe and skipped a beat but I try not to work myself up.. and it dissapperars! Just these headaches are so intense and constant, it's a whole new worry!

If it would help put your mind at rest, then you could go see your doctor again.

If you are constantly tense, then yes. Tension causes your muscles to ache, most of the time you don't even know you're doing it. I do it a lot and get aches across my chest and shoulders. While I've been tensing, I've been waking up with a headache most morning as it aches around my neck too.

I am no doctor but if they keep telling you it's just a tension headache, then it most likely is.

Headaches can be painful and annoying. The best thing to do is to drink plenty, so dehydration doesn't make it worse. Also, treat it I use something called 'Head Soothe'. It is brilliant for headaches.

Would it make you feel more at ease if you had an x-ray or something? You could leave it a week or two and go back to your doctor.

Beckxx3, these muscle contraction (tension) headaches do eventually go away. I had them daily and at times the pain was debilitating. I had an MRI which just proved that they were muscle tightness and trigger points due from anxiety. I had many sessions of physical therapy to help reduce the tightness in the back of my head, temples, forehead. I was taught what I could do at home to provide myself with relief from the immense pain w/o resorting to medication. In between getting the contraction headaches, I would get monthly and mid cycle migraines. I learned the difference in the pain but the level of intensity was the same for both, again because being tense from anxiety promotes our pain level to excel. That's when talking therapy started, biofeedback, hypnosis, anything and everything to relax those tense muscles. One day it just stopped. I can't remember when or how it happened, but I woke up and there was no head pain. The more you fret over these headaches the longer they go on. There are medications that can be taken to reduce the number of headaches you get (which are not pain pills). If taking over the counter or prescription pain pills you must be sure not to use them frequently because then you cause yet another kind of pain called rebound headaches. I guess what I'm saying in a long round about way, is yes they will stop. x

I was going to say that it sounded like an aura migraine. The worrying will definitely make it worse as well as making you hot and flustered. You need to lie down in a dark cool room and start relaxation and deep breathing. If done properly, you may even fall asleep for a while. When you get migraines and get agitated, your pressure rises making all the symptom 10x worse. I wish you well soon. x

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Yeh its horriable just got to take each day step by step x