u/AmphibianCool1041

I feel like my legs get numb and hot, I don’t think they are particularly too tight or anything, I’ve just never found that it helps but I want to do everything that helps

I know no one can answer that, I have a diagnosis of autonomic nervous system hyperactivity and orthostatic intolerance and pots(ish) they couldn’t fully diagnose me with it but it’s on my record now, caused by long term abuse, I removed stressors I changed my whole life and lifestyle diet vitamins etc and I’m still suffering months later, does anyone know?? Beta blockers made me so much worse but I haven’t tried all of them, I’m scared to take a lot of meds because I have pre excitation

Exactly a year ago today, I was in a really really bad place mentally. One night I was waiting for some friends just sat on a bench on the side of the road in the city that I lived in, and a woman walked past me but stopped, and just handed me a business card from her bag. I took it and it had a picture of a woman doing yoga on and it said something like “experience your spiritual awakening come to our free yoga class” and because I was vulnerable and exactly the type of person that would be prayed on by people like this I saw it as a sign from the universe that she saw my pain and that I should go to the class.

A week later I turned up to the class to see a group of all men in a circle of chairs surrounding a black and white picture of this woman, I was extremely confused as I thought it would be a yoga class but I sat down and just kind of copied what the men were doing a.k.a. closing their eyes, their shoes off listening to the music. The leader of the group asked if I had heard of Sahaja Yoga before and I said no, so he explained that this woman had saved people all over the world blah blah blah. I don’t know how I didn’t immediately think “cult” as I am quite clued up on these things but I was really unwell at the time.

that whole hour was very strange and when I left, I felt quite touched by the experience purely because I was in a very vulnerable state, then one of the guides in the session ran up behind me after I left and asked to walk to the train station with me, he started saying strange things and asking where I lived I told him the next tube station (Limehouse) to mine because I just wanted to be safe and I knew he would have monitored where I was getting off the tube.

I felt quite stuck in this situation, for context this guy was probably a 50 year old Indian guy and I was a 22 year-old woman at the time. He was very strange on the train, asking a lot of personal information and tried to hug and kiss me as I left. I swiftly walked off the train when it got to my stop and tried to get away from him. a couple of days later he had somehow got my number and texted me, he said “I’m at Limehouse” so I blocked him but he managed to find ways to get around the block somehow and every few days repeatedly call me despite me blocking him time and time again, telling me he was at my tube station every few days.

I think about a week after that I was scrolling through Reddit and something about Sahaja yoga came up in the R/cult of Reddit and suddenly it all made sense. I’m so so glad I was able to see it for what it was and not let My vulnerability take over.

Probably the wrong term but I saw someone use it and was so grateful because I thought I was the only one that felt it. I can feel and hear my heartbeat thumping 24/7. Not necessarily fast it just feels heavy and loud and I feel it in my chest and face and just all over. It’s so overwhelming and uncomfortable especially for someone whose health anxiety is as bad as mine. Just wondering if I’m alone in this or not

I know bloating is normal after I taking a lot of fibre, but it just doesn’t seem to be going down, I’ve cut down on the fibre and I’m still bloated and (sorry TMI) my stool is loose every time, I’m worried I overdid it and am now scared of SIBO, any kind advice is appreciated