[RachelLyn915]

My symptoms vary and change depending on the day. I think my biggest problem is believing that all of these terrible different symptoms can be caused by just anxiety. I have been doing better at realizing I am not dying but its always in the back of my head. I always have to convince myself that its just anxiety. It helps me to hear from others that they have experienced it -- its even more helpful than hearing it from a doctor.

So please... share your worst symptoms or variety of symptoms, if you wouldn't mind.

[Loial]

Last week, or maybe the week before... my memory is a bit hazy but I was convinced I was ill.

I was feeling weak, cold/shivery, had nausea & a headache. I was also had other health concerns on my mind. The thing I thought was strange was sometimes I'd feel ok, then I'd feel ill again... plus I didn't have a temperature. That sort of alerted me to the fact it might have been anxiety but no matter how much I tried to recognize my faulty thinking, I couldn't.

I ended up at the doctors, who gave me a full check-up & said I was in good health. That helped for an hour or two, but the next day I couldn't stop worrying about my health. My mind was racing, I was restless & I just couldn't control it.

Long and the short of it was, after calling the doctor again knowing it was anxiety & being prescribed some diazepam, I took one & that broke my cycle of worrying showing me that I wasn't ill since all my symptoms went away.

I can worry about a lot of things with GAD, but it's always the psychosomatic symptoms & health-related anxiety that are the worst for me. Usually the health-anxiety only comes on when I have some bone fide symptom, so not too frequently. Breaking the cycle is always the hard part though.

Originally Posted by Loial

Last week, or maybe the week before... my memory is a bit hazy but I was convinced I was ill.

I was feeling weak, cold/shivery, had nausea & a headache. I was also had other health concerns on my mind. The thing I thought was strange was sometimes I'd feel ok, then I'd feel ill again... plus I didn't have a temperature. That sort of alerted me to the fact it might have been anxiety but no matter how much I tried to recognize my faulty thinking, I couldn't.

I ended up at the doctors, who gave me a full check-up & said I was in good health. That helped for an hour or two, but the next day I couldn't stop worrying about my health. My mind was racing, I was restless & I just couldn't control it.

Long and the short of it was, after calling the doctor again knowing it was anxiety & being prescribed some diazepam, I took one & that broke my cycle of worrying showing me that I wasn't ill since all my symptoms went away.

I can worry about a lot of things with GAD, but it's always the psychosomatic symptoms & health-related anxiety that are the worst for me. Usually the health-anxiety only comes on when I have some bone fide symptom, so not too frequently. Breaking the cycle is always the hard part though.

hey that happened to me quite recently too!
convinced i was having a heart attack- and it was going really fast in my chest.

so got the doctor out on a home visit who did all kinds of tests to check for problems with the heart and all the other organs- absolutely fine

still felt sick all day- that's my worst case, or un controlable shaking when it's not even cold
also had full scale meltdowns

[Nike007]

Hello. My OCD causes me much anxiety, but I do have a couple anxiety disorders. But for OCD, my worst thing is believing my teacher, who is like a mom to me, is going to die. Though I hate to say it at times, my mom causes me a lot of anxiety and stress. I get so happy to see her, and I see her like my mom, that I'm afraid she's going to die.

GAD for me really depends on the situation. I rarely get panic attacks or super bad feelings from GAD. They are bad, but not super.

Social anxiety deals with performance. My worse thing is thinking people are judging me all the time. I also think of the anxiety symptoms associated with it. I mainly want people to not judge me. Hate the judgement feeling.

Social anxiety disorder, GAD, OCD, and panic attacks

Lexapro, 10 mg

[lv99atheist]

Originally Posted by RachelLyn915

My symptoms vary and change depending on the day. I think my biggest problem is believing that all of these terrible different symptoms can be caused by just anxiety. I have been doing better at realizing I am not dying but its always in the back of my head. I always have to convince myself that its just anxiety. It helps me to hear from others that they have experienced it -- its even more helpful than hearing it from a doctor.

So please... share your worst symptoms or variety of symptoms, if you wouldn't mind.

Worst symptoms? (You asked for it....)

Full-on panic. I mean literally rolling on the ground, unable to control my movements, screaming my lungs bloody, thrashing, vomiting, unable to speak (or if I can, it comes out like glossolalia ["speaking in tongues"].)

My usual state is hyper-awareness, hyper-arousal, feeling sick in my stomach, shaking uncontrollably, etc. That's my daily experience, anyway. I can't take medication because it knocks me out.

I guess I wonder if anyone else is like this or should I be in a padded room or something?

[Aussie sheepdaze]

My experience is similar to Loial .. debilitating health anxiety (mainly Cancer phobia).. feel like I'm hurtling through space with nothing to grab on to, cold feeling all over, butterflies so severe in my stomach, can't think clearly, can't eat (lost 10kg in a couple of weeks), severe IBS-d, can't sleep, either pace the house or sit rigid in a chair .. got so bad last year, was hospitalised for a week. Now taking Nortriptyline and Risperidone. Anxiety has improved somewhat, but still lurking in the background. Also have trouble talking to people and being in crowds (have absurd thought of to many germs and can't stand the noise!). Panic attacks are under control to a degree. Haven't had a bad one since early last year. Just 'keeping it together' these days.