u/memyselfandanxiety1

Does anybody feel like physically sick when you have anxiety ?
Like nauseous and just not feeling good?

I have no idea how else to describe it but just a sick feeling. Like if I ate something wrong or muscle weakness type of thing.

So I sort of just wanted to vent for a bit.

I’m learning to be content in my relationship with the Lord. Meaning running to him for all things. I use to run to music or people or just go distracting myself. Most recent I’ve just attempted to run to God first so he can fulfill that need.

No big surprise but I often get really lonely. I’m 30f and most of my friends all have significant others. It’s hard on holidays when everyone is spending time with their boyfriends and families and I’m just here.

Also it’s Sunday and I get the bad Sunday scares.

I sound like a hopeless romantic 15 year old girl but I wish I could meet my significant other soon. I’m tired of these lonely days. I wish I had something to look forward too.

So I started on medication about two weeks ago Desvenlafaxina 50mg. And the constant adrenaline dumps did stop, internal shaking stopped, I would say at least a good 70% of my symptoms stopped.

I felt like every day I was getting better. On Tuesday it was the first time that I drove by myself in the night in two months. I started to wanna go out again even if I did have some anxiety I was determined to go out even if it was just to go pick up something from the store or help a friend.
Then yesterday, I had a friend invite me for a walk. And I just had a bad thought about what is something happens to me on the walk, then suddenly I had a twitch in my chest.
And that was enough for me to spiral.. I was up till like 2 AM to sending if I was gonna go to the emergency room.

I think it lasted about 30 minutes with a heart rate 105-150 l knew it would fluctuate for the time being.
And today I just felt super depressed like all the progress that I was "making" just fell through the cracks.
In the moment, really want to run to the emergency room.
I was able to walk outside and sit down to get some fresh air and | just feel like I couldn't even move because I would feel like all woozy.

And if I'm honest, I'm still very much thinking that I have something wrong cardio wise.
How did you overcome the bad days of health anxiety?
While being on meds and making some progress

I know that being 13 days on medication is not enough, and I know that it typically takes more. But I just feel so defeated. I don’t feel like myself yet. I know that I’m not myself. I just don’t know what to do.. I

I’m just sort of thinking out loud so I ask for any forgiveness in advance if what I say is not right.

I feel like going through my mental health battles has really made me understand why some people end up un-aliving themselves.

My mental health battle started with anxiety, and then it’s progressed to depression too. I’m currently on a work leave due to it all.

I really thought that I had a set foundation when it came to having a good support system. But that support system was only good when everything was going well.. and not when I’m experiencing battles.

I’ve always been a person who’s needed support, I’ve always been the weaker one at home. I’ve always shown more emotion and been more empathetic.

The lack of support that I have felt lately has made me really understand those who have decided to stop their lives. It’s been so hard battling this and it’s been even harder when those around you are upset.

My grandma talks a lot of bad stuff about my parents because they choose to go out and continue their daily routine while I’m home. Due to the stress I’ve put my mom under she’s developed a rash on her arms and body. I cry everyday too. No one knows how to help.

I am taking meds everyday and I’m doing the best I can. But now I see how crucial it is to have a support system. And not just someone to tap your back but someone to walk with you. And unfortunately, the people who I thought would be that are not it.. I’m constantly blamed for all the bad things happening. My mom keeps saying she’s gonna have a heart attack. Which worry’s me even more.

This just all sucks so much. The worse of it all is I’m 30. But I guess for my family it’s super taboo to need comfort and support when you are grown up. I guess that stops when you are 18.

I would love some advice and just I don’t know what I need but I just need help.

The anxiety and the health anxiety that I’ve been feeling has been so paralyzing.

I am instantly on edge. My whole day revolves around the physical symptoms..

I just started yesterday on 5 mg of Lexapro.

I have reached out to a treatment center. This anxiety feels unbearable.

My parents want me to be strong and to try and just wait it out, but I don’t. I wake up every day in some sort of fear.

It’s taking over my life. I struggle falling asleep because I fear something will happen, i literally set a timer to be woken up, im constantly waiting for any symptoms to happen. I’m woozy all the time.

I don’t love my job but it works as a distraction from thinking.

Some of my friends and family don’t agree on me going to facility and getting medicated because they don’t think that I’m bad. But I honestly just don’t know what to do.

I don’t know if I should just like wait it out.

Any advice would be helpful, please

I feel so helpless.

I feel that this anxiety and panic has left me at my lowest.

I am not medicated I am seeing a doctor in 3 weeks. To help me out.

I just feel so paralyzed. Hopeless. Exhausted.

I feel like I can’t even recognize myself. I’m scared of everything. I can have half a good day then the rest is all crappy and I’m anxious.

I try to just breathe and relax but I just can’t fully calm down.

I have some propanol 10mg and I took it to help calm the physical symptoms and it helped. I don’t know what to do. I am still working and yes it’s a distraction from all the aches and pains I’m feeling and the constant thoughts of me dying.

I want to see the light at the end of the tunnel but it’s so hard.

Is there a way out of this ? I’m so desperate to be better. I’m only 30 and I have so much more life left to live. And living in constant distress is so hard.

I need help and don’t know what to do.

My loneliness has felt so existential today.

I’ve been dealing with a lot of mental health issues lately that have completely left me feeling hopeless so the fact that the loneliness that I’ve been out running has also caught up at the same time is freaking horrible!

There’s the loneliness of being single and the loneliness of your life sort of being stuck for a season.

I will say that I do have my parents and my sibling who are being great support in this season of my life. But I don’t know why I can’t help but think and feel sad about how at the end of the day you only do truly have your family. All the friends that you’ve helped out, all the things that you’ve done for friends, putting your friends before yourself, I think it’s a really big reflection of how at the end of the day sometimes it’s just sad that your family is the only people who are with you during these times when you also expected close friends to be there for you.

Also, that loneliness of being single. And not having that companionship, and that person to come and choose you deliberately.

I’m gonna say something so out of pocket, when Taylor Swift went into hiding during her reputation album writing she probably didn’t see a lot of friends, but she had her partner which I’m sure made life way less lonely.

Anyway, I don’t have a partner and friends are scarce at the moment so I know that I have to suck up and deal with the loneliness.

Has anyone ever felt this way before?

I know an advice would be to go out and do stuff but honestly last week I went out to eat with a friend less than a mile away from my home and I started getting really anxious. My mental health revolves around my anxiety and panic attacks and a crisis of faith lol

I will be getting medicated in a couple of weeks, so I’m hoping that the dark clouds clear up and then I’m able to start enjoying life again but all these feelings are all very true with or without medication.

So yeah, if anybody wants to chime in or have you ever experienced this and what do you feel like helped you?

I am new to suffering with vertigo and today had a dizzy episode where I had to hold onto something and that sky rocketed allllllll the symptoms you can imagine.

My chest tighten, my arms numb, felt like I was gonna pass out, uneasy and well ended up in the er cause I knew I wouldn’t be able to ride the wave.

And well despite alllll the dang test they have given me I’m still scared they missed something.

Ekg, all the blood work for the heart, cbc, hemoglobin and thyroid. Even my x ray came back normal.

I am currently sitting in my room and my arms are still tight and my back hurts and my chest is still tight.

It’s so crazy how even in the er the safest place for a medical emergency I’m still feeling anxious.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been dealing with sever HA for a couple weeks now. I can’t stop worrying about what if my body aches mean something or if I’m going to die of a heart attack, brain aneurysm or stroke etc etc. The list is long.

I’m really suffering from this.

I live at home with my family but my room is located outside but anyway I’ve been sleeping with my parents for about 3 weeks. I can’t sleep alone. I’m always so scared.

Im having trouble trusting God during these times. I can’t even read my word. I’m so miserable.

I’m 30 female and before this I was living my life and normal.

I feel haunted by this. I don’t wanna die I’m scared.

In 2022 I started with HA, felt most symptoms, I was so hyper aware of everything going on in my body.
As the years went on it got better and I didn’t focus on things as much.

Maybe 1x I would feel woozy and worry. Then it became maybe 1x every 2 months. I’d have flare ups where I would get waves of anxiety and so forth.

I think for a whole year I didn’t go out much. I was also in college and busy with all that and graduating.

But yeah things sort of got better but recently with some panic attack flare ups my HA came back with a vengeance. I feel that every single symptom I feel that I’m dying or having a heart attack, stoke, aneurysm. I can’t stop reading post about all the symptoms

I feel so crippled by this. I can’t stop worrying about the what if. I’m continually monitoring allllllll body aches and pains. I just can’t stop.

I took Zoloft but got off of it and for some reason when I first started I knew I just had anxiety but now i question everything.

I’m so sad. I’m 30 and 2 years ago even last year I was living life to the fullest. I had so much planned for this year but I’m barely able to work and then if I go out I’m always I eventually get anxious.

I don’t know what to do. I’m always worried that I’m going to die. I’m hurting so much emotionally. I wish I could just be normal.

So it’s been really hard attempting to learn how to navigate life lately.
I feel like most of my friends are all in serious relationships, finishing up some careers, their life is looking a little bit different now. And I just feel that I am just here..

Am the only one in my close friend group who is single. Recently of my best friends got into a relationship and it’s like I don’t even exist. She still text me, but it’s like doesn’t even care to make plans. It’s all my man, my man, my man. ( yes I am petty. lol petty and sad but I understand that she’s in love)

I have another friend who’s pregnant, another friend that’s gonna be moving out, and while I have my career and lately, I’ve been suffering with some mental health stuff that has held me back from live laugh, loving lol I don’t even know how to navigate all these changes that are coming forward. I feel so alone.

And I don’t want my loneliness to be tied to me not having a relationship because that’s not what life is about, but sometimes it’s hard to not make that a focal point when the majority of your friends all have relationships and have their partners to keep them company and to do things.

Any advice for navigating life moving on and feeling stuck?

So I noticed something today while watching euphoria. I got Hella anxious.!!

These shows would never make me anxious at all. They would have me at the edge of my seat, just waiting for the next thing to happen but that was it no anxious feelings.

However, I did notice that watching it this time around with my anxiety being really heightened and my nervous system being really regulated, it was really bad.

In the morning, I started feeling a little bit anxious when I was watching it so I stepped away but then after lunchtime, I decided that I’ll just push through the anxiousness, but that didn’t really help. I had a lot of anxiety after I finished the season.

It’s taken a couple of hours for me to feel regulated again, but I’m still very anxious.

Anyone else feel like this when watching any shows or any movies?

Have you had to stop watching intense TV due to your anxiety?

So these last couple of days, I haven’t had any panic attacks, but I still very much feel the physical manifestations of anxiety.

My chest feels heavy. I feel like I can feel my heart heartbeat really fast when it’s relatively normal. 70ish-80ish but I feel my heart you know pumping excessively, I feel my chest a little tight, and I feel it in my arms too ( upper arms ) like bicep, I feel it between my breast,

I am currently working on my scrapbook so I am working through these physical symptoms and try not to pay attention to them, but they haven’t gone away. Usually they go away within some time 20ish mins but it’s been about an hour or so.

I’m a little worried.

Can anyone help me not spiral? I usually lay down on the floor or I just lay down on the couch and not do anything. But today, I just wanted to try and work through the symptoms.

I’ve been doing the same thing for years.

I bought an Apple Watch the track my heart rate, then I bought ecg device from Best Buy to check my heart rate, I got an oura ring, I always check the ecg on the Apple device then check my hr then check my ring heart rate. Oh I also check my bp too, 2x a day at min.

It’s a horrible cycle. If everything turns out fine with my heart then I start thinking oh my brain. Then I start checking for other symptoms and then guess what ? I feel like I give myself the symptoms of what I googled.

Last night I felt a little tick while breathing and automatically thought yup this is it.

I walked over to my parents and had my mom sit with me while my symptoms passed. Im thankful I didn’t get a panic attack alongside these symptoms but I’m so tired and exhausted of this cycle.

I also very scared of dying. Death overall. Although I call myself a Christian I’m scared of what’s going to happen after. And this brings so much shame.

Has anyone overcome this ?

Anyone have any tips ?

I also experience panic attacks but yesterday my cycle didn’t include panic attacks

I’m feeling so defeated tonight.

This year was the year that I was supposed to accomplish so much. This year I thought to myself I’m gonna do everything and I’m just gonna live and enjoy my life.

And then a couple weeks ago I got hit with a panic attack. That’s completely left me feeling hopeless. I’ve suffered from anxiety since 2022. Started at 26 now 30. But these last couple of weeks have been just so exhausting. Constant panic, migraines, in the state of melancholy all the time, panic attack , feeling an anxious, I’m scared to go to the store by myself. I even started experiencing vertigo. I don’t feel like myself. Although I always consider myself an introvert, I always had this personality that was so full of life. I equivalent my personality to the roly-poly from a bug‘s life. And now I just feel like I just exist. I pushed through at work because I obviously still need to work and survive.

I feel like there’s no light at the end of this tunnel. But I feel like I’m constantly being depressed. I am getting off Zoloft and I might start Lexapro but I just feel so hopeless. I went to the doctors today thinking that maybe it might make me feel better but it really didn’t. I just feel like a zombie.

I feel like I’m constantly looking for support. I just feel like I’m going crazy. It’s only been about 3 1/2 weeks since the symptoms just started to really affect me and I know that there’s other others out there who have probably been in the same state as me for months or years. I just feel like I hit my rock bottom.

Does anybody have any new tips of what something that I can do?

So I started on 25mg for about a month and then this last week I upped it to 50mg.
My panic attack worsen on week 4 and that’s why I asked to up it.

But I feel that this medication isn’t helping. I’m still experiencing very high levels of anxiety and panic.

What happens if I quit it cold turkey ?

Has anyone quit cold turkey on the low doses? If so what were you symptoms. ?

Before starting meds I was just really anxious. Lots of symptoms but nothing compared to what I’ve been feeling these last 3 weeks. I’m thinking I’m dying every couple hours. Yesterday was the worse. Every 10 mins I could feel the rush of cold blood in my body ( I know it’s the adrenaline) gosh it was the most horrible thing ever.
So this is why I wanna quit the meds I feel like they worsened it.

I had a bad panic attack April 18th. Lasted all day and then the days after still felt a bit off.

I felt somewhat better a week later. I did still did have those jittery muscles, I felt foggy but was attempting to push through.

Fast forward to this week I don’t know what happened that everything just went downhill.

I feel so hopefulness. I’ve been waking up everyday with what feels like a fast heart rate, my panic comes in n out, I feel like I can’t focus on anything for too long, I can’t even enjoy being on my phone, I’ve got this dizzy feeling that I’ve had for the last 4 days, nothing stops these feelings. I’m having some dissociating as well.

How normal is this ? Is it normal to still be riding that panic attack from 2 weeks ago ? Whats your view on what’s happening to me ?

I am on sertraline 25mg and just started yesterday on 50mg.

I was at work today and on my way there I felt some chest pain which made me panic and then once I got to work, I just couldn’t calm myself down.

I’m a speech therapist so I had to end one of my sessions early because I could not stop the shaking and the panicking.

I had one of our staff members called 911 for me. I’m feeling just hopeless. I’ve never called 911 before even on my worst panic attack days. But today was just so different.

I feel so embarrassed and I feel like I’m just losing hope.

Of course everything turned out fine.

I just really need some support some good words.

I don’t know how to make a long story short, but I’ll definitely try.

I started experiencing anxiety and panic late 2021. It was doing Covid time and people were just dropping dead and it really scared me.

In 2024 started dating this guy and that ended and i feel embarrassed writing it, but it ending really did a number on me. I felt so lonely.. I was never one to be pursued or be in relationships so this feeling and relationship felt amazing.

I started keeping myself busy, really busy. I would have three outings in one day. If not, I would have a full booked day with someone or doing something.

I did this for almost a year and a half. I just ran ran ran ran away from my feelings.

I put so much pressure on myself to always be out and I have so much pride telling people that I was busy. All because I didn’t want to be lonely.

Fast-forward to about three weeks ago I had a panic attack and I haven’t been able to bounce back since then. I had put so much pressure on myself to help a friend out and my nervous system completely shut downs

I’m experiencing all sorts of symptoms now, and I just feel like I can never bounce back.

I started sertraline almost 2 months ago, and even with that I still am in this place. I don’t feel like myself.. I can’t even sleep, I used to be able to whine down and I felt my body physically get ready for bed and now it’s like I can’t.

I did all of this because I wanted to keep myself busy and I wanted to keep people happy because if people are happy with me they want to be with me and if they want to be with me then I’m not lonely.. but I’m the one who has been suffering these last couple of weeks. It truly feels unbearable. I will mention there’s times where I feel like I can laugh at a video or I feel good enough to put on some music and dance to it. I just feel like I dug my own grave. And I don’t know what to do about it.