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Posted 4/14/2016 4:05 PM (GMT -5)
Anybody get the feeling when there driving like there's an empty feeling in your stomach or if there to much bass in the music your chest like vibrates??? I used to love driving everywhere now when I drive home from work this happens it's very annoying and I notice I hold my stomach in or something weird like that. I get home I'm all weak from the drive home then I settle in and I'm fine I don't like when this happens. Also when this happens my nose seems like it stuffy but it's so hard to explain.
Posted 4/14/2016 4:29 PM (GMT -5)
PK,

Do you feel anxious while driving...or is it just the physical sensations?

I use to feel D/P D/R while driving...but not anymore.

It could be that the vibration of the car is just enough to set off your 'Super Scanner'...and then the mind starts looking for symptoms in a sense.

Either way...use those coping skills before, during and after driving!

S.C.
Posted 4/14/2016 6:15 PM (GMT -5)
Hi Sc,

I'm in the car now with my husband I feel the physical sensations I don't think I'm anxious. I drive in the am I'm fine. It starts goes from my stomach up to my throat then I feel like I can't swallow I have to sit sideways but then when I'm out of car I'm ok ughhhhhh this is very annoying
Posted 4/14/2016 7:07 PM (GMT -5)
Do you think you might be feeling car sick?

I also wonder if you may have felt that way one day (anxiety, being sick, whatever the reason) and now you're hyper aware of how you may feel while you're in the car and focusing on it and then feeling the same sensations again?

For example: I had low blood sugar one day around 2 pm and it lead to an anxiety attack. Then each day for the next week at 2pm if start to get really anxious all over again because I was afraid I'd feel the same way at 2pm again.
Posted 4/14/2016 8:15 PM (GMT -5)
The reason I asked about whether or not you were feeling anxious is because I sometimes get symptoms, even when I am not aware of being conscientiously anxious...

...but sometimes the anxiety is under the surface of what we actually feel...yet it's still there...enough to cause the sensations.

I love driving now! I still have other things that cause me anxiety...but with management tools...the everyday things don't get to me like they once did.

Keep working your program...it's a process. :)

S.C.
Posted 4/14/2016 8:34 PM (GMT -5)
I'm not sure I get this sensation here and there so I know it's my anxiety it's just annoying. Ughhhh before meds my anxiety sx were shaking sweats crying fast heart rate. On meds fast heart rate once in a blue moon. Off meds all of the above plu************* lets see dizzy,vision issues chest pain stomach issues numb tingle face palps I can't win I swear lol!!!
Posted 4/14/2016 10:36 PM (GMT -5)
PK, you are already winning, stay with the system and take a look back, you will be surprised, Peace

Larry ***
Posted 4/15/2016 9:05 AM (GMT -5)
Larry,

How am I winning I'd love to know lol
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