Oh No, I need a another IV line inserted for LYME Disease TX and I am having Anxiety over it?

May 13th, 2010

Carole asked:


Ok, I am not normally an axious person but I am now because I need another, yes… another PICC line inserted for Post LYME Disease Syndrome. I am having anxiety because the First PICC Line broke, got lost in my body. Ok it was in my chest through my heart in hanging in to my abdomen! I needed vascular surgery to get it out! I wasn’t cured and needed another line inserted. I did that too. But 2 yrs. later and IT’s back!!! Worse than ever. I have no other form of Treatment my doctor said it’s not an option. I must have the line inserted again or I could have even worse problems than I already have. So now I have terrible anxiety and a phobia that the line may break again! Should I tell the doctor in greater detail how strong my anxiety is before I go ahead and have the line put in? Maybe he will prescribe an Anxiety drug? Then I’ll be on mental medicine too this means?? LOL
Thanks for your input. If you need to learn about what a PICC line is go to Web MD.COM
Oh gee, Now I have offended some one for using the words mental medicine? Give me a break! I was referring to me being on meds for anxiety, meaning isn’t this stuff used for mental issues? Sorry if I offened any one! Really.

Ethel

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Mom doesn’t listen me when I talk to her about anxiety?

May 13th, 2010

hey ;) asked:


I know for a fact I have anxiety but until recently I didn’t what I had was. I tried to talk to my mom ’bout it but she just says, oh its just a phase, or, I think you have a very mild case. Well, it’s more than mild and I tried to tell her that but she just blows me off. I can tell she also thinks that I just want the pills so that I can “abuse” them..but that couldn’t be any farther from the truth. I think the reason she thinks that I want them for recreational use is because she caught me smoking marijuana recently and now she thinks i’m a druggie! I just want to cure this because I think I would be A LOT happier if I had this under control. How can I get my mom to listen to me about this because now she just thinks I want pills to get high. It makes me sad that she can’t trust me.

And also, therapy does not help so that would not be an option.

WANLUCK

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How come people won’t share what works?

May 12th, 2010

wildbeagle asked:


When it comes to cures and fears and such. Like what works for acid reflux, what is the panic away one move trick, what kind of apple is best for heartburn, what has worked for anxiety? Any tricks for panic attacks? Is it because there isn’t an answer?????
Ok it’s just a question, don’t everyone get defensive….just out of curiosity.

Kathryn

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how do i get rid of this phlegm i have in my chest?

May 10th, 2010

KOKO asked:


I’ve had it for a long time now.. i went to the doctor and they gave me antibiotics, i felt better while i was on them but that didn’t fully cure me.

Whenever I am in the cold it worsens, it’s hard to breathe and such, because of all the phlegm i have in my chest.

I eat halls cough drops and they help a lot but I’m tired of depending on them and anxiety worsens my problem by a lot.

the phlegm is clear, in the morning it’s yellowish and when i get up in the morning i blow my nose and there are strands of blood.. and my nose is usually stuffy also.

Thanks for help, in advanced.

JOE

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Please help me. Cures to depersonalization and derealization?

May 9th, 2010

John asked:


I’ve always had anxiety and depression. Mental illness runs heavily in my family. My grandma has clinical depression and borderline personality disorder, and two of my aunts and uncles had scizophrenia.

Despite all of this, last summer (for about 2 months) I began smoking marijuana and have never been the same ever since. Most of the time I smoked I never felt anything but I had two bad highs… The first wore off after a week. The second one has been with me till this day.

I experienced feelings of dp/dr a while before I began smoking… But it was from sleep deprivation (I have insomnia and a reluctance to close my eyes/ see the the end of the day come). Also I was in the middle of an “existential crisis” and would not even eat so obviously lack of sleep and food caused these feelings.

But when I smoked that just showed me a side of reality I didn’t know existed. Depersonalization. It’s like your body telling you you have no soul and trying to prove it to you. Scary as hell. I literally got lost in time and space a few times and wondered if I’d ever come back.

I wquit smoking (cannabis obviously, and tobacco), quit drinking, quit drinking coffee and soda, et cetera. Currently I’m working 9 hour days in construction. I don’t think anything can keep you more physically fit and mentally busy than that.

Yet the feelings persist. I don’t want to treat this with more drugs. What are some natural ways to make myself feel better. I’m now starting to wonder if I’m living in a dream and if others are even real. It’s very disturbing and depressing and this only makes the feelings of depersonalization and derealization worse.

When light strikes objects it looks the most unreal to me. Sometimes I think reality has good “graphics.” That’s ow bad it is.

I’m desperate. Please help. What sort of vitamins and food should I eat? Behavioural tips? I don’t know. Just help me. Thanks.

Glenda

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Do you believe that all depression is caused by breaking one (or several) of God’s commandments?

May 9th, 2010

Little Angel asked:


For example, not working 6 days out of the week and resting on the seventh or eating blood and fat. Sleeping too much, eating unclean animals, not loving God and remembering Him and His ways, etc. I ask this b/c my husband has depression and anxiety. He takes drugs for this but they don’t cure him, just make him numb.

Timothy

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Alternative treatment or cure for Adult Ear Infection?

May 9th, 2010

mom of 2 asked:


HI! I am a 28 year old female. I have a possible ear infection or fluid in the ear. My doctor has given me two types of antibiotics, within 2-3 days of taking them I get dizzy, nauseous, diarrhea, confusion, light-sensitivity, anxiety. I cannot take them anymore. I have stopped them. Are antibiotics the only cure? Do I have an alternative? Help.

MARCUS

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Does anyone have this and what can I do?! EXTREME anxiety?

May 7th, 2010

Praying For a Baby BOY! asked:


Ok so I am 23 years old. I am a wife and a mommy. Well for years I have suffered with anxiety but is has seemed like it has gotten worse this year like since Jan. 09.

I wake up at night with it and I have it sometimes in the morning when I wake up and I will think that something is wrong with me. After I work out I even have one sometimes and I will be thinking “Did I workout too hard” or “Am I having a heart attack”. It is always like I am in extreme fear when I have having an attack.

I am not even sure what to do. It has interfered in my normal life one too many times. I will be scared to get out and walk somewhere sometimes like a store or mall because I will have a fear that I am going to pass out.

I wake up sometime and i feel really dizzy and I will seriously think something is wrong with me. My husband called 911 one day and they said that my heart rate was 170. I am so worried and i am not sure how to deal with this.

I don’t want to be put on medication and be “drugged up” all the time. It seems like when I am having one that my biggest worry and fear is that I am dying and that something is really wrong with me.

I am so miserable. I never want to live like this anymore. It is hurting me so bad. I am tired of being scared and heart pounding and fear over nothing. And then when it is all over I feel fine and I am like “When I have another one I will takle it” & then when the other one comes it is like a new symptom and I get more worried than I was with the last one.

I went to the ER a few time and they have done thousands of $ in test like medical test like on my kidneys,liver,heart and blood test and medically they said that everything is fine. I even had blurred vision one day and I was certain that was a heart attack.

Please if someone has been through this tell me how you dealt with this. I need to know how to cure this before I really lose my mind:)

Thanks so much for reading my story=)

Kenny

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why do i constantly feel nervous? (serious answers please)?

May 7th, 2010

sweetmurderous asked:


i constantly feel butterflies in my stomach.. almost all day i feel nervous for no reason. i was on anxiety pills and it took it away then i went off and its back. is there any other way to cure anxiety without pills?

John

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How do I cure a problem with heartburn?

May 6th, 2010

matisse1202 asked:


Almost a year ago I started getting pretty bad stomach pain high up just under my rib cage. Soon after I also felt chest pain daily (like a woman in a stiletto standing on my chest). The pain interrupted my daily life. I saw a gastrointerologist and I was told it was just bad heartburn (after many expensive tests). I have been on prevacid, aciphex, and zantac. None of which made it completely go away. Then he suggested it was stress induced. I started seeing a psychiatrist and took xanax and a variety of other anti-anxiety medications. While the heartburn did not go away it was infrequent enough that I could have a normal life again but the side-effects were terrible. I finally stopped all of the meds but the chest and stomach pain (with some nausea) are back. At this point I am lost about what to do. I am not sure if it was anxiety causing the problem to begin with or not. Has anyone had a problem like this before? What should I do to get rid of heartburn?

EMMETT

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