What symptoms do you have from anxiety?

I am interested to know what symptoms people experience. For me it is intense feeling of fear/butterflies in chest and upper abdomen. Weakness in legs. Jumpy heart. Overwhelming feeling of panic. Metallic taste/smell in mouth. Feelings of unreality. Exhaustion.

I get an intense feeling of fear and a sense of impending doom. I have butterflies in my stomach and my heart starts pounding and I can't keep still (usually tapping my foot). I despise anxiety.

I get a sense of fear and a cold, sharp 'icy-white' painful feeling in my mouth. Jelly legs, pounding heart, tightness in my chest to the point I can hardly breathe and my throat feels swollen to the point I can't speak. I have horribly disrupted sleep- can't sleep at night then am exhausted in the afternoons sometimes. I also notice I sit very, very still if I'm anxious in company - it's like I'm trying not to give myself away. I can feel very detached and like the world is unreal too. It's horrible.

my symptoms are pain in my chest, shoulders and buttocks and hips when i get tense, sometimes tension headaches, butterflies in my tummy. also like jennifer out of nowhere i feel this sense of impending doom. insomnia at night because i can't shut my damn brain off.

Chest pain, dizziness. Can go to trembling and shallow breathing, and a sense of doom. Trying to relax brings tears.

Aches and pains,restlessness,fast heart rate,struggle to clearly put sentence together,easily distracted,cannot focus on one single task,overwhelming thoughts something awful is going to happen,mentally and physically drained

Dissociation from reality, but in a very negative way, without an inner safe place to escape to, everything is just disconnected.

My muscles feel, I dont have a word for it actually, like Im struggling in my own body that feels displaced.

If I dont try to calm this state by various methods, the next stage is headache and nausea, and finally vomiting and wanting to die.

My whole body trembles and my throat gets tight, which feels miserable.

I shake horribly. I get so afraid that I can't be alone. I crawl into a fetal position and just lay there and cry. I fear dying. After it's done I usually fall asleep. My symptoms to me are more like depression like the crying, but that's what happens to me.

At a minimum level, it's lots of worry, indecision, feel overwhelmed. At a high level it's dissociation, catastrophic thinking, want to curl up, skin tingling or crawling, total withdrawal. At panic attack level it's the above plus heart racing, shallow breathing, and deep derealization.

I feel everyone is staring at me, feel very self conscious, hard to breathe, start shaking, feeling I lost all control of my emotions.

Heart racing, tight chest, knot in my stomach (not really butterflies for me), tight throat, shaky

I get few and mild physical reactions. Which in a way is very frustrating. I can't act, but I look fine.

It made me think I didn't have clinical anxiety, since all the descriptions include strong physical responses. And yet, fear to act has ruined my life -- for years. I'm completely avoidant about some things and not others.

I posted an inquiry about it in this forum awhile ago and got a few other people acknowledging something similar. Since then, I've been able to ask a therapist about it. They said the well known fight-or-flight reflex is really a fight-flight-or-freeze reflex ... and I was doing the freezing. I'd heard that, but didn't know if it applied to anxiety disorders.

I don't view diagnoses as absolutely definitive because every person is unique enough to warrant individual treatment ... but it's nice to get some validation. Maybe this will help someone else reading this.

Thoughts will start to pop in my head. Then I feel a knot in my stomach. My breathing changes. My chest feels tight. I start to feel panic and doom. I've learned to immediately start coping skills. If it's night I'll take a sleep aid

Sometimes I'll just feel like my entire body is tense for no reason, and my head gets a little foggy.
When the anxiety gets worse I feel like I'm going to start shaking any second, I feel restless and then there's nausea and dry mouth.....

When feeling particularly anxious I get a pain in my chest and aching/ tingling feeling in my arms. This is usually followed by a headache and general feeling of dread. Focus goes out of the window, as does a good night's sleep, while negative thoughts race through my head...

I had something happen to me last Thursday night that ended me up in the Hospital. It all started when I realized I might have to try to work things out with someone that has been bullying me, going beyond just picking on me and teasing me, to actually getting really nasty and accusatory and really mean. A mutual friend wants to bring peace between us, and I wish that were possible, but I don't think that the other person is capable of that. I have been told that he hates me and he sure treats me like he does.

Yet all I did was to say one day, after he had been teasing me and picking on me for about 3 months, "I am not in the mood to be teased today." Well, you would think I had read him the Riot Act or something. From that day on he started talking behind my back against me, making snide comments while I was communicating to others and in general otherwise refusing to speak to me at all, even though I did try to talk nicely to him one time after all this had happened.

Anyway, Thursday night I got flashing colors in my eyes every time I stood up, I was out of breath and I kept feeling like I was going to pass out. So I called 911. They said my vitals were OK, though my B/P was a bit low. They hung around to see if my condition would worsen or get better. It remained the same, so I finally relented and let them take me to the Hospital.

I was in the ER for 3 hours, got 2 bags of saline I.V. solution and some atavan. Then they sent me home.

Since then I did some research on panic attacks, and found that you can indeed get flashing colors in your eyes and have fainting spells too. So, I guess that is the form this thing took this time. This is the first time it has hit me so hard and so awfully. Usually it is just the butterflies in the stomach, maybe a bit out of breath, not a lot more. I had that all day long before this hit me though, so I believe this was a panic attack, not just anxiety, but I was diagnosed as having "anxiety."

However, the ambulance folks witnessed the panic attack, I think, because they took about a half hour to get me to the Hospital, during which time I was (of course) laying down and also calming down. They talked calmly with me and told me I was doing OK and so on, so they helped me in many ways, including starting the saline I.V. (I have low blood sodium normally and have to drink sports drinks to keep my sodium levels normal; I had forgotten to drink this for a few hours before all this occurred).

Heavy heart palpitations, heavy breathing, scared of sudden sound and/or very sensitive to sound in general.
Fear of people, isolation becomes security because there are no triggers of anxiety.
Mornings are the worst: tingling hands and legs, tight solar plexus, heart palpitations which usually followed by crying.