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Mommytobe asked:


I would really like to talk with someone who is going through the same thing. The first symptom I ever had was numbing of my hands, then a few days later my left foot, leg, arm and hand went numb. My throat closed up and my heartrate was extremley high. I thought I was going to die from a heartattack. All I could think about was my little girl living her life without her mom. So anyways, I went to the hospital and he told me I was having a panic attack. Few days later, it was not only my left side but also my right foot, leg, arm and hand.. ocassionally my head, face and lower back. I went to a different doctor and he said they werent panic attacks because they only affect the left side, is this true?? He said the numbness of my right side had to be from something different other than panic attacks but I personally think they are panic attacks but not 100% sure. No one has given me any medication to help it and its starting to become very bothersome and nerve wracking. Anyone else experience panic attacks that result in right side numbness?? Oh and sometimes I dont feel like Im having a panic attack but my limbs will still go numb and ive noticed that the attacks only come at night ???

Marta

Charnell asked:


I’ve always wondered if maybe I have a thyroid issue since I’ve been suffering from brain fog and anxiety/panic attacks for 11 years now. But studying Thyroid dysfunctions, I don’t see all the symptoms matching me, until I found one symptom.

TOLOSA-HUNT.

The symptoms include:
* Headache behind the eyes. CHECK!
* Pains around the jaw. CHECK! (one of my biggest ailments)
* Joint aches. CHECK! (been tasted many times)
* Fever. CHECK! (get it twice a week)
* Paralysis of face muscles. MAYBE. (I feel one eyelid droopier, but no actual paralysis)
* Chronic fatigue. CHECK!
* Double vision. NO.

Is it possible I have Tolosa-Hunt? I am Swedish, and I only know the English name, and thus I don’t know how to ask for it to my doctors. I hope anyone with knowledge of the issue has some ideas.

Victoria

the spanglemaker asked:


Hi all, just a bit mystified and wondered if anyone out there had any similar experiences and a speculative diagnosis. Sorry for the wordiness but I’d like a considered answer so I’ll give a considered description!!

First, a bit of history which may or may not be related…

I am a 23 year old female, somewhat underweight, blood sugar levels usually fine, and I have a history of anxiety managed normally by anti depressants and occasional anti-anxiety meds. I’m a smoker. In the last couple of years my panic attacks have been strangely based on finding it difficult to breathe, which I then labelled as a psychosomatic symptom of my anxiety. However recently several doctors have diagnosed me with asthma. It is hard for me to dilineate between what is an asthma attack, a panic attack and if I even have asthma at all. I still have some issues when on meds to do with breathing, which makes asthma seem likely. Plus I really should stop smoking, yes.

It has now been about a month since I have taken any of my medication and I’ve already weathered the SSRI withdrawals… anyway, it’s been at least six months since I’ve taken the SSRIs regularly and haven’t taken any other anxiety meds for longer. The other night I was riding in a taxi when I felt my heartrate pick up and my hands start to become sweaty. I had taken some ventolin a while beforehand, which sometimes causes these symptoms. I waited for it to pass and it only increased. I didn’t seem to be having any trouble breathing and it came out of the blue. I started focussing on my breathing and my chest felt relatively clear and just slightly tight. My hands were now completely engulfed in pins and needles and my thumbs on both hands spasmed suddenly against the rest of my fingers. This was pretty scary but I was trying to ride it out, noting I could prise my hands apart with mental will but on their own, without concentration, they immediately went back into spasm. Then my feet started to sweat as well, and became slightly tingly. They reached a brief point where I thought “I will fall over if I have to stand up” but this passed quickly and subsided to a vague tingle. Occasionally my legs started to feel tingly behind the backs of my knees too, and there was a slightly odd muscular sensation like the faintest of spasms. All these other areas of my body stayed pretty OK and just faintly effected but my hands remained locked, sweaty, freezing and tingly. I may have been beginning to hyperventilate by now, getting a bit panicked. I was starting to feel dizzy and I couldn’t focus on the road ahead, and I also couldn’t tell if this had started before or after the hyperventilating. I almost warned the cab driver I was about to faint, because it felt exactly like pre-fainting dizziness. Instead I called my friend with great difficulty (trying to make my hands cooperate) to distract myself but the mental distraction did nothing to lessen the hand issue, or the dizziness. Throughout the conversation I controlled my breathing better but the dizziness kept coming in waves and made me feel very detached and odd.
My hands were getting worse. Now they had no dexterity, they shook (more slowly and obviously than normal tremors) and were still completely tingly. When I had to give money to the cab driver, I literally had to sort of manipulate the money between my thumb and the side of my forefinger against which my thumb was stuck, awkwardly. I couldn’t really handle notes and change and despite my best mental efforts to look normal for the cab driver (this sort of effort usually brings me out of panic attacks), I had no choice but to completely fumble my change with my now near-paralysed hands.
I got out of the cab OK physically aside from the hands, but I was feeling pretty panicky now because I’d never had anything like this. My legs felt a bit weak but carried me. The dizziness was quite intense still but manageable. It took about ten minutes before my hands started to return to normal. I suddenly felt very hungry but then immediately ill when I thought of food, and I returned to normal without any sugar or food of any sort. Slowly the sweats and racing heart subsided. Three days later I was walking when my legs were overcome with weakness in a similarly sudden unprovoked fashion, no tingles but it took some time before they felt normal and for a few minutes it was a serious effort to move them and stay upright.

All very odd. Sorry about the length but googling has returned no good results….just curious and a little worried :-/

Thanks for putting up with that

Cheryll

im_tiburon asked:


i havent mentioned this to my doc, mainly because im kinda embarrassed to do so but i have really bad anxiety, maybe close to panic attacks, but i feel panic attacks would include worse symptoms, but i have very bad social anxiety, and public anxiety, such as being outside, going to the store, basically doing normal things outside the house, i dont know where it came from but i do feel very uncomfortable in the “real world” i have taken a few benzos in the past, including klonopin, ativan and xanax, xanax actually worked the best but was taken off of it, ativan might have worked if it were a higher dosage and .5 of klonopin did no positive change, actually made things worse, so if i mention this to my doc my next appt. will he prescribe me xanax? im supposed to take a blood test the 24th, dont know what will show on it but i try my best mentally to be comfortable outdoors but it doesnt work at all, im also taking effexor for anti depressant/anxiety, please let me know
just want to say that its not possible for me to change doctors either, i dont have medical insurance, i dont know how i came about it, but the hospital assigned me this doctor because i had been in an urgent mental health and it just happened, so i can not see any other doctors, so maybe if i stress this to him he will understand, and let him know that im not seeking xanax to get high but that it seriously, genuinly helps me and hope he understands

Calvin

Karen asked:


A 92 year old relative with severe macular degeneration in one eye and visual impairment in the other suffers from hallucinations (Charles Bonnet Syndrome) for days at a time even with her eyes closed. We have tried changing available light, exercise, changing what she is looking at during the day, and avoiding TV, but nothing helps. It is causing great anxiety even though she knows that her eye condition causes the hallucinations. Does anything help? This even prevents her from sleeping since the hallucinations are present when she closes her eyes.

Angela

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

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

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

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

Dooooooooog asked:


I just picked up some st.johns wort, 5htp, Korean ginseng, vitamin b complex, and scullcap. How much should I take of each supplement and when for each like morning night etc. Also is it even okay to take all of these at once?

Jeff