Anxiety Symptoms

Hi,

So just looking for reassurance that I'm suffering from anxiety.
Before Christmas 2016 I began suffering from a bloated stomach and GERD which began making me feel as if I had a serious health problem.
I'd recently moved Country and returned home for the holiday break with the same symptoms. Worry and jet lag caused me to have insomnia for around a month, and I was sleeping for around 3 hours a night. I began having numbness in my extremities and muscle tightness around my neck.

Furthermore at Christmas my father was diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease. So all in all quite a stressful time. When I returned to the US I began having panic attacks during the night. Which thankfully I don't have now, or the insomnia. I noticed loss of muscle and weight and began gagging occasionally. I spasm and feel tingling and burning sensations in my hands and feet. My hands are weaker and noticeably look older and swollen round the joints. It's also become painful to walk on the harder surfaces in my house like wood floors. Generally feel like I'm under some kind of fog and also I've recently had chronic floaters in my eyes and slightly blurry vision as well as a sticky / itchy sensation.

I had a endoscopy which revealed nothing. I've had blood tests and allergy tests which all said I was ok. Got my eyes checked out and even though they can see the floaters they say nothing is wrong.

Has anyone else experienced these kind of things with anxiety?

Hi
Sorry your suffering with the dreaded anxiety and it's physical symptoms.
Unfortunatley the symptoms you describe are very common , there are coping tools and things you can do to help with these.
One thing that is good for the muscle aches and tingling is progressive muscle training. It is very simple to do , you can do it in bed morning and night. and only takes 10 mins. It gave me great relief from muscle weakness.
I found guided ones on you tube. Just type in the name and a few will come up.

Stay positive you will come through this stronger than you think.. It takes a strong person to cope daily with this.. And you can do it xxx

Hey there, anxiety, however caused, can result in a myriad of unpleasant symptoms...leg weakness (jelly legs), dizziness, tingling sensations, feeling faint. It's a pretty long list. Foggy brain is also common and it's something very familiar to me when bad anxiety hits.

Good thing you have been checked out medically; that should ease your mind a bit.

I will also say that I read more and more that digestive issues can cause or exacerbate anxiety. I go round and round with my own occasional stomach problem/GERD and anxiety. What comes first? Sometimes it seems my anxiety will get my stomach tied up in knots and other times my stomach makes me feel faint, anxious, etc.

Maybe talk to your doc about some acid reducing med that you can use occasionally to see if it helps calm your stomach and lower your anxiety? I've had good luck with Nexium.

Hang in there!

Hi

Welcome to the forum as you can see you will find good support here.

Sorry to hear you are dealing with anxiety and sorry to hear about your fathers diagnosis.

Anxiety can cause all sorts of symptoms both physical and mental and is very good at mimicking other things. The good news is lots can be done to help we have some great links in our resources so take a look I can recommend the Mindfulness Meditation ones.

Stay with us and keep posting.

Hibee