November 25th, 2011
P a u l a ??? asked: Well I am 17 weeks pregnant and I’ve been experiencing severe back pain. It’ll like come out of no where. At first I thought it was because i was doing too much and being too active,but even if i stay home and relax it’ll come. I’ve also had some cramping in my lower abdomen. I’ve went to the doctors and they told me that it was normal. They didn’t really tell me how to solve it though. Any ideas?
Dshantay
Categories: back pain |
Tags: Doctors, Lower Abdomen, Severe Pain | 7 Comments
December 12th, 2010
Denver asked: Like 10 minutes ago I felt like killing myself but now I feel great!
The doctors tried putting me on anti-depressants, why didn’t they just recommend natural ways I can feel better?
Carol
Categories: Mental Health |
Tags: Doctors, Meditation, Stress Anxiety | 3 Comments
October 17th, 2010

Michael S. Logan, MS asked:
Experiencing anxiety attacks causes even more anxiety. Did you know that? It’s because there’s so much misunderstanding in society and even among some doctors about what exactly anxiety is and isn’t.
Feeling anxiety doesn’t mean you’re not normal. When you reach a point where anxiety impacts your life so much that you can’t do everyday things, that still doesn’t mean you’re not normal. What it means is that your anxiety has reached a level where you need to do something about it. It means that to get back into the routine of life, you’re going to need a little help.
Many people don’t seek help when they feel overwhelmed by this emotion because of the stigma that is wrongly associated with it. Sometimes what people don’t understand, they fear. Back in the 1800s epilepsy was given a label that wasn’t accurate and the same thing happens today when you have people and doctors who aren’t aware how to handle anxiety.
There’s a simple definition for anxiety. Boiled down to the basic meaning, anxiety stands for worry. People with anxiety worry just like others. The problem is they worry more than they should and can’t seem to stop, so help is needed. Some people with anxiety do have mental issues, but that doesn’t mean everyone who struggles with anxiety does.
Getting to the root of anxiety attacks causes can be found in how people react. It’s an overreaction – an emotional overload that triggers the anxiety. Anxiety triggers can be from physical danger such as having been in an accident, financial pressure, marriage struggles or the loss of someone close to you – whether through death or separation.
Usually when people experience such happenings in life, they’re able to deal with them, put them in the proper perspective and move on. Those who suffer from a deep anxiety that won’t leave them alone can’t seem to move past some events.
Wanting to and not being able to control life can bring an attack. Living with the fear of ‘what if’ or ‘what could happen’ can cause anxiety to build. Part of anxiety can be found with fear at the foundation. Fear is the worry over something that hasn’t happened. We fear job loss, death, how to pay bills, we fear health problems and the list goes on. But whether the fear is real or not, to those who battle anxiety, the fear is very real.
Experiencing anxiety attacks causes people’s lives to be disrupted sometimes to the point where they can’t make it through an hour, let alone an entire day. For those people, learning how to control what they can control and let of what they can’t is vital for gaining perspective. You don’t have to put up with anxiety. There are ways to successfully treat it.
And Those Ways Are…?
The tool which I recommend most highly for managing feelings like anxiety is the heart rate variability biofeedback tool.
I had a client this past Friday struggling with anxiety about multiple psychological and medical issues, who sat down at the computer, and I hooked her up to her ear clip, and she followed the directions of the Coach included in the program, who instructed her on breathing and the Quick Coherence technique, and she was visibly relieved at the end of her 20 minutes session, reporting feeling very relaxed.
I was doing the biofeedback right along with her, as I was a bit worried about whether the technology would impact her anxiety.
Not a problem, she is now anxious to continue, which is eustress anxiety rather than a distress anxiety.
A most excellent aspect of heart rate variability biofeedback is that it is learned. I have had only a handful of clients in the ten years I have used heart rate variability biofeedback take more than five hours or ten sessions to learn how to induce the heart rate variability coherence by cue thought and breathing pattern.
Actually, there is a very sophisticated nervous system in your heart which is learning to respond to the breathing and thinking cues, and believe me, your heart will thank you for helping it beat more coherently. In fact, you will feel great while using the tool, so you will want to remind yourself of it frequently.
Another aspect of the heart rate variability biofeedback solution is that I can make one heart beat an anxious heart beat and the next a relaxed heart beat. My clients begin to realize that they can schedule anxiety and relaxation, alternating them, and within a usually brief period of time, anxiety is minimized in order to feel relaxed, which does not mean that problems in the external world go away.
It does mean that we “worry them” when we want to work on a creative solution, and the heart rate variability biofeedback process opens the higher perceptual centers in the brain for that creative problem solving.
So it looks like heart rate variability biofeedback is a winner all the way around, good for the brain and body.
It definitely combines the best in available psychophysiological tools.
Roger
Categories: Causes And How To Treat Them |
Tags: Doctors, Overreaction, Worry | No Comments
August 25th, 2010
MetsWrightSantana asked: im major in anxiety i lost 43 pounds do to it wich i cant believe thats what it is could anxiety effect your digestive systme? if your constantly nervous cause i havent had a normal bowel in a long time it comes out light brown soft or in a ball please tell me is this cancer or a major disease will i die? im 18 male non smoker always was healthy it started out by scared of chocking and was afraid to eat for the lonegst time? i hear strange sounds in my body after eating and drink and gugling in throat i do have acid reflux also is this serious will i die soon
? 6 doctors checked up on me told me i was healthy but bowles and weight loss everybody tells me im hypercondria or is it nerves cancer or disease. please answer everypart of question.could it be esophagus cancer?
Anthony
Categories: Mental Health |
Tags: Acid Reflux, Anxiety, Doctors | 9 Comments
August 6th, 2010
Dastan asked: Okey, here is my story; I have been bullied all my life because of a gentic disorder that I am born with (cant be cured)…so as people has bullied, humiliated and laughed at me most of my early ages in school, i have developed Social Anxiety Disorder…I was so much depressed that after holding on for 4 years, I decided to kill myself..but didnt succeed…so now I have SAD and sometimes I am depressed even after talking to doctors, but at that time i didnt knew i had SAD, its about 2 months ago, that i searched in internet and i discovered that I had this horrible disease…Fx in places where there a lot of people, i cant relax, always thinking ”are they lookin at me, do people think negative of me” and **** i cant even hold a conversation more than 20 seconds…anyone has any idea of what I should do???
Patricia
Categories: Health Issues |
Tags: Doctors, Okey, Social Anxiety Disorder | 13 Comments
June 5th, 2010
XxDJToxic420xX asked: I have been dealing with Anxiety and Depression for a few years now, i was 17 when signs and symptoms occured, 19 when i got put on meds in 2003. I am now 22, and want to know if there are other options that work just as well as prescribed meds, so, that MAYBE i can talk to my doctor about them.
Yes, i have been on meds since 2003. I’ve had doctors tell me i’m on too many, and doctors who say “If they’re working, don’t stop”. But, last week, i was in for a panic attack again, and one of them said my body’s becoming “immune” to them, meaning that soon, they won’t work anymore.
So, are there other options? What are they? And maybe where can i get more info.
Cathy
Categories: Mental Health |
Tags: Anxiety And Depression, Doctors, Options | 14 Comments
June 3rd, 2010

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
Categories: Other - Diseases |
Tags: Anti Anxiety, Ativan, Doctors | 4 Comments
January 15th, 2010
Dazred asked: my mother in law gets them and she thinks she’s going to die.she’s in denial and is convinced it’s not a panic attack.symptoms are shooting pains up through the chest,feeling weak and dizzy that lasts 10 minutes,the doctors have done all checks,heart,blood etc and say shes fine.help!!!
How to Make Solar Power
Categories: Panic Disorders |
Tags: Denial, Doctors, Panic Attack Symptoms | 6 Comments
December 16th, 2009

Luke asked: I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks and if I get a bad one, I notice at the ER that my blood pressure shoots through the roof. Nothing TOO high but it can go 130/140s and very close to 150s, and the lower number can go into the 100-110 range.
Is this something I should be highly concerned with?
It normally drops to like 100 over 60 afterwards when I’m sedated, and it never stays at that level, but it can shoot up there in a matter of MINUTES!
Should I be concerned, becuase none of my doctors seem to be at all, whatsoever,
but people on this message board go crazy if you mention anything over 120/80.
I n eed some true advice.
I just saw a cardiologist today and he didn’t seem the slightest bit concerned.
He didn’t do any extensive tests on me since I Had heart palpitations frequently, but im also sick, so maybe during illness its more normal?
He said the palps and the anxiety/panic high bp are nothing to worry about.
Is this true?
I also notice that SOME times my LOWER number seems to be the most dramatically increased, and other times its the HIGHER number.
What could cause the lower one to increase, and what would cause the higher?
Make Solar Panels
Categories: Heart Diseases |
Tags: Doctors, Heart Palpitations, Matter Of Minutes | 1 Comment
October 30th, 2009
fairy asked: I am thinking of taking it with out a doctors order because I can’t afford to see one.I had a bad tooth ache that resulted in an abcess.My whole right side of my jaw is getting swollen and painful.I am so uncomfortable and helpless.I know some one who gets penicillian from mexico with out prescription and is going to give me some.Feeling that I have to do something about my health problem I am thinking of taking it.Besides my husband went through a tooth ache recently and the dentist put him on a 500mg penicillian and pain killer-tylonal.So I figure It seems ok.Does any one think different though.Some expert advice some one can give me about what I am thinking of doing.Will I live to tell my awful infected painful tooth ache story?
Cure Panic Attacks
Categories: Dental |
Tags: Doctors, Expert Advice, Health Problem | 4 Comments