u/Just-Orbiting

Hi all! I had been feeling so much more free from anxiety and agoraphobia from the last year and a half. I recently started having some physical health issues and the agoraphobia has gotten worse - but oddly, I haven’t forgotten what I learned when I was feeling better. When the physical symptoms are less, I am able to go back to that feeling of freedom and ease pretty quickly. When they get worse, I feel much more anxious and limited.

I’m choosing to see this as an opportunity to be even MORE okay feeling anxiety. Not only am I free to feel limitless when I’m healthy, but I’m also free to feel that way when I’m sick. My ability to feel freedom is not contingent on my thoughts, feelings, or physical health.

Hi all. I recently have been having a lot of dizziness, neck pain, and feeling like my head is heavy and needs to be held up when I’m sitting. I’ve been looking into what could be wrong with me and cervical instability kept coming up. I went down the rabbit hole of researching hypermobility - I’ll write a little of my story to see if anything resonates.

I played very competitive tennis as a kid/teen and was constantly injured, starting at 6 years old with plantar fasciitis. I always thought I was injured all the time because I practiced several hours per day, but now I’m wondering if it was actually hypermobility, or a combination of the two.

List of injuries:
-plantar fasciitis
-tennis elbow more times than I can count
-rotator cuff sprains
-ankle sprains
-eventually, micro fractures in the facet joints in my back and bulging L5/sciatica that made me stop playing for good at 16

Other clues:
-was told by a yoga teacher that I’m likely hypermobile when she noticed my knees and elbows overextending, taught me to keep a microbend and advised against further yoga. I was in my early twenties and this went right over my head
-overextended my knee leaning against my bed doing laundry (lol) and imaging showed a meniscus tear. They went in for surgery and saw that it was just “loose”, not torn, and stitched me back up
-Joints constantly hurt and I get frequent sprains as an adult. I always thought this was just an issue from being overweight
-I’ve fallen three times in the last year
-I generally feel like my balance is poor
-fun one: I would put my leg behind my head as a party trick when I was younger

Just sharing all this to see if anything resonated with anyone here and wondering if I should maybe consider hypermobility with my current head/neck issues. Thanks all!