I’m new to this app, I can see the love and support of everyone on here. I didn’t know that health anxiety was more than me as shallow as that sounds. As I found this app and started reading posts, I was brought to tears. I feel for everyone on here because I know how life changing and stressful it is to worry about your health 24/7.
I have really bad anxiety, I’ve had it since I was 9. My parents got divorced. I was scared to swallow food because i was scared I’d choke. So i lost lots of weight and mom brought me to the doctor because she was worried. They said nothing was wrong, I just needed to eat.
I overcame that, then a couple years later - when I was 12 I was worried about 2012, the movie. I was so scared it would happen and I would die I would cry myself to sleep, cry at birthday parties, it stopped my life at such a young age. Eventually I got over it.
I hadn’t had any panic attacks, anxiety or anything again till I was 19 (current age) it was sudden, a few boys I knew died in a wreck, and then a football game close to my town got shot up, and then some man got shot and thrown in the road dead 30 minutes from my house. It was all so much at once. Next thing I know I started having panic attacks, my first panic attack lasted all day because I couldn’t convince myself that’s what it was because it hadn’t happened in so long. It started out from one panic attacks a week, and as the seasons started to change and my allergies came, common cold, and what not. I started looking stuff up and one thing led to another and everything was saying I had a tumor, aneurysm, cancer, etc. my panic attacks started happening every - single - night. It was the most miserable thing ever. I couldn’t get into my doctors to get a new medication either so I had to go to UC, found out I had a stomach ulcer from the impending stress, fluid in my ears, acid reflux, and just the common cold. She started me on Buspar and I’m in love, I’ve been taking it for 6 days (which I know sometimes isn’t long enough to enter the system but it’s all a state of mind) and I have had 1 panic attack in 6 days!!! I was used to having 1 to 2 a day. But that doesn’t completely stop my worry. I’ll get chest pains, or severe headaches (which I’ve had my whole life), or stiff neck or back pain (which usually is from sleeping wrong or not at all), and I’ll convince myself it’s an underlying disease. I vape, which the nicotine can cause heart palpitations along with my panic attacks which SCARE me. I just want some coping mechanisms, what I can do, and what will honestly help. I’ve been to the ER and doctor. They said blood pressure is normal, heart rate, breath intake ratio. Everything looks normal. My doctor had an explanation for all of my symptoms aswell. I would just love some natural remedies for anxiety that go with my medication.
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