flagirl

I'm having a very bad time. My mom is very sick and dieing, I don't think she will be with me for much longer, this is very hard for me. My anxiety since she got sick has been very heightened. I try tell myself she could be with us for another year, but I know in my heart it wont happen. I have a very hard time with death and I've been thru alot of it in the past 1.5 years. I think I'm handling it but all I do is push it back down inside. I've also been having medical issues myself, been having so much dizziness for the past 9 months, it feels like I'm rocking/swaying and when I walk sometimes the floor is bouncing, my ENT thinks it migraine associated vertigo and my thyriod meds have been going up and down for months, so I'm constantly worried that i'm dieing myself. but in the past few months I've been constantly anxious, in the past week I've taken my xanax every day, I try to only take 1/2 of the .25mg but somedays I take the whole pill and then I worry about getting addicted to it. I know its not much but still worry. I beleive I'm also having depression about all of this. I can't get in to see the psychologist until the end of May, so I'm trying to cope and its hard. I think there is just to much going on. I spend a lot of time now because of this wondering if its going to coz me to have a heart attack, because of the stress and anxiety. My symptoms now are nervousness thru my entire body, lightheaded, chills, increases sweating with my hot flashes, I'm also post menapausal, legs and back ache, headaches, tightening shoulders and neck pain, worry every minute of the day, can't concentrate, can't remember things, shaking, heart pounding every morning when I wake up, constant checking everything on my body. Since this vertigo started I spend every waking moment looking for what it is and why I have it. I'm obsessed with it now and with my mom being sick all the time, the anxiety is much worse. I have an appt on Monday with my GP about this to see if he thinks I need meds. I hate taking them, everytime I try I have awful side effects and they scared me to death. So I opted to go back to therapy but have to wait for it. I'm curious does any here have constant fear and anxiety 24/7 every day and worry whats it doing to you? Thanks for listening.

Hi Kylie Sounds like a possible ear infection or stuffiness. Its very hard to put your mind at ease when waking up like this, I do it a lot. Your right new sensations can be the worst, because our anxious mind goes into the "what if" or what is this now. I do it all the time, I have so many sensations daily with my dizziness, that I spend way to much time thinking about it. But as we all know its hard to shut off our minds. I like you have dizziness as my worst trigger and having anxiety or panic with it doesn't help, it makes it so much worse. It could also be your time of the month is coming as could be hormones. I know when I first started peri menopause my hormones caused panic and anxiety for no reason, it would just be there, then I learned it was the hormones. I've learned thru this that anxiety comes from something physical happening, yes we may have anxiety disorder, but there is always a reason for it, wether it be our thoughts of something going on or about to go on, us being ill, hormones. It sounds like you have thought about things that might be going on in your mind to cause it. Thats the first thing I do is think about anything causing me stress or worry, if nothing then I try to let it go, of course its tough, I tell myself this, if it continues for 2 weeks and is not acute then I will see the doc. I hope you feel better soon and try not to let this stop your progress. You have helped me so much, I would hate to see this hamper you. Best Patty

HI everyone: I hope your all well. I was doing well and now its back. Some of you know I've had dizziness now for 9 months and I've been working on that with a vestibular therapist and I started the exercises last week, where i have to look at a certain thing on the wall while sitting and move my head up and down and then side to side, and since starting the dizziness has gotten a bit worse, in researching it seems sometimes this will happen, so I try not to let it get to me, because the dizziness much worse with anxiety. I have also had to up my thyroid meds by .25 mcg in the past week and not sure if this could be causing anxiety. But I've also been becoming worried about my husband in the past 2 days, as he has complained about his head hurting for 2 days, now this morning he has told me he has lost 5 pounds in the past week, and for no apparent reason. He has had what he thinks is sinus congestion and says he has felt like eating, but I have to tell you, as soon as he told me about the weight, I could immediately feel it coming on, my vision in my left eye got weird, then as I was driving to work, which can give me anxiety because of the traffic and this dizzy stuff, I could feel it worsiening and I was thinking to myself, don't worry he is ok, don't worry could be the sinus thing, thats when I realized it was real anxiety. So I came here to talk instead of trying to handle it alone. This health anxiety stuff doesn't ever really go away, does it? I get scared as soon as I hear about the possibility of sickness. I also had what i'm guessing was a bad anxiety attack saturday, I had to go to another funeral, and I took a 1/2 a xanax before as I could feel the anxiety coming on. Well once I got there and sat down, I felt off balance and that finally settled, but when going in for the reception, I noticed getting food, my hands were shaking and felt like I was going to pass out and I wanted to get out, but I didn't. I felt weird but I stayed. I've noticed lately that when I'm going in where there are alot of people, I get anxious. I never felt this way before. No anxiety around people. But now i'm noticing this more and more. But I continue to go out. All the symptoms are back, dizziness, headache, neck tension, head pressure, shaking feeling inside, vision off, worry It seems I'm coming full circle, anxiety is back like before, dizziness causes it, sickness causes it, thyroid causes it. But I have to keep trying to be ok. I tell myself don't worry about the things that have not happened, but thats hard as most of you know. So here I am, talking to you about it, so I don't keep it inside. I'm very thankful I can come here and have others who understand. Thank you

Hi all: Hope everyone is doing okay. I have not been around to much lately. I've been trying to handle my anxiety and I'm doing okay. I think things are finally working better. My dizziness is still with me but I'm handling it a bit better, not flipping out so much, maybe because I'm excepting its my inner ears and not the end of the world. I'm hoping my thyroid is starting to level out. I still have these little anxiety things, for lack of a better word, its like a small minuet attack that last for a couple of minutes, me feeling like I'm not breathing right, or dizzy. But I try to think about what is causing it and handle it better. Today is a little off for me, I'm working in my office alone and I guess a bit worried about something happening, you know "what if", I have neighbors next door, so I try to remember that. I'm usually not alone but the guy who is here, won't be here for a while, like a year maybe. I guess one of my things, is I don't like being alone so much, i used to love it, but with anxiety as we all know things and thought change. So here I am.....talking to you guys, hoping getting my fears out will help. Its been 9 months since my anxiety kicked in again, seems like forever, but I think I'm doing better. I had a few little choking attacks over the weekend, first friday, went to dinner and got in the place and so many people, I found myself coughing alot, trying to get air deeper in, then saturday after I went grocery shopping did the same thing driving home. Do any of you notice when your anticipating something, you go and do it, but afterwards the anxiety hits alittle bit? This happens more now, then before having the anxiety before doing something, and the waiting for it was horrible. Now it seems to come after. Maybe its just me. Do you think our anxiety subsides because of acceptance or maybe there is something physical going on and we start to get better so it goes away? I know my thyroid levels have been off for months, so maybe that was it. Its so hard to tell, I still have dizziness, but not everyday all day, I'm getting breaks it in. I'm so very thankful for that. I've been spending time praying also, and reading inspirational quotes from the bible. I suppose finally letting go. Well guess I better get back to work, but thanks for listening and being here. Flagirl

Hi All: Do you feel like your stuck in your own head, I know do. I have been thinking a lot about this. I wake up every morning and my first though is anxiety and checking, am I anxious, am I dizzy, am i breathing right, is my heart pounding, are my muscles twitching or jumping, how is my vision, what about a headache, oh no I'm off balance, will my shoulders and neck hurt and many other thoughts. This is my brain every morning and all day. I work all day and you would think this would stop a lot of these thoughts, but honestly its looming in the back ground all the time. I have been trying much more to let the sensations pass in much hope that my brain will retrain the thought patterns of fear. I'm sure once the patterns are formed the mind and body remember the reactions and it becomes the norm. I have been reading a book called "The Worry Trick" and it explains it all. Retraining this is pretty hard, especially if its been going on for long amounts of time. I have also been doing more relaxing things for myself, I started walking again to help the stress, doing more breathing exercises, took up coloring in those adult books, surprising its very relaxing. I was spending so much time on my fear and body sensations, I couldn't move. All i wanted to know was what is causing this and why won't it just go away. Yes I do have a medical thing going on right now with my inner ear, and that is what started this snowball into anxiety. Next thing I new was my thyroid was off and my neck and head pain was so bad, I had injections done and that caused my thyroid to go out again and we couldn't get it straight so more fear. My thoughts lately have been what is really going on. To be honest its fear of disease and not knowing I may have one. I believe when the vertigo hit me I could not control the thoughts and fear. So I spent lots of time in doctors offices looking and even though they would say there is no disease process here, I didn't believe them, they must be wrong, they are going to miss it and i will be dead. This is exactly what I did 16 years ago when my thyroid went out the first time, I had so many symptoms but I knew inside anxiety does not just show up on day, there is a reason. I still believe that, there is a reason. Mine is just plain fear of disease and death. I have been through so much death in the past year and the first one starting in March of last year just 4 months before the vertigo hit. He passed away out of know where, yes he had some medical issues, but they had 3 days before told him all was good and then he was gone. I can't be sure if this is what started my sub conscious thinking but I'm sure it didn't help, then from there it was funerals every time we turned around. I lost my grandmother many years ago and honestly I've never forgot the sickenss, she had c****r, she chose not to do anything about it and it took 3 long years before she was gone. I miss her every day, but I think her death had the worst effect on me, because she didn't seem sick and then suddenly she was. I've spent many years trying to understand this effect, but the one thing i know for sure is when someone dies, it floods back. All the fear. It has turned me into a person who doesn't just asked about your headache, I asked where in the head, any other symptoms, I know it drives my family nuts. They are to the point now they don't want to say anything unless they think it may be serious. Thats sad to me, because it shouldn't be that way for them. I worry about them all the time. I can't imagine anything happening to one of them. My son had open heart surgery 4 years ago and he is well now, but I am always asking how he feels, because the heart is not something you mess with. I also think my own dizziness fear stems from my step fathers heart attack, he had dizziness a month before it, so of course this bothers me. But I have to remind myself all my docs have said my heart is fine, and that this ear problem is causing this. But as we all know, anxiety comes in many forms and symptoms. I'm trying very hard not to be so afraid, yes its hard but my body needs a rest from all the fear and stress. I'm sorry I've been rambling but I felt I needed to release this, possibly to see if it makes any sense to you. Thanks for listening. Flagirl

Hi I'm sitting in my office and all of sudden I just weird. Like panicky anxious and scared. I thought maybe a hot flash was coming but it didn't. Then this left arm pain again. I just know its going to be my heart. I turned my head and dizziness, then the panic hit. I'm trying to stay calm, but its hard. Trying to just let the feeling go and not let it over come me. Thats why I'm here now, coz I feel alone and scared. I know that all this worry and stress is going to get me. I don't understand any of this, i don't know how anxiety can do this, its got to be something else. I know the dizziness well most of it is from the vestibular dysfunction in my ears, but for some reason I don't choose to believe this. I have been to the doc so much in the past 8 months, my GP says you definitely have GAD and wants me to take meds, but I have tried so many of them and i can't tolerate them. Then my neuro says its anxiety, my endocrinologist says part anxiety and thyroid is still off, my ENT says vestibular, so which is it? No wonder people get so anxious. I've been reading post on here and there are so many people with anxiety, I feel bad for everyone. This is the worst thing to have. I wonder how we all get this. Is it something we are born with, or something we have learned thru lifes experiences. I don't know anymore. I only know I spend 90% of my day everyday, trying to figure out why i wake up everyday in a panic and scared. I'm so tired. I look around me and everyone is going along happy, except me. I hear people laughing and talking and they have no idea that i'm struggling to just get thru the day, that i'm probably dizzy and wondering when I will pass out, or that I'm having pain and wondering if I will be alive tomorrow. To be honest, I'm just plain scared all the time. i know its not rational, but its the truth. I don't feel good about myself, I look in the mirror and i see an unhappy, sad person. I just never feel good. I don't know if its my thyroid meds or if it really anxiety and fear. How am I suppose to know? How do we know if the anxiety is just that or if its some disease process going on. My blood test are all normal, my head CT was normal, all the docs listen to my heart and say its ok. I feel depressed. I never look forward to anything, just wish whatever is coming up would get over with. I think alot of this is my worry that this vestibular thing won't get better with the therapy i have to do, that I will have this forever and be afraid forever, I won't be able to take care of myself when i'm older. What will happen then? Aging scares me, I see so many people who can't take care of themselves ad I wonder about me. I can't do the things now i used to do, its harder for me. So in 20 yrs when i'm in my 70's how will i get by. I think about this a lot. Its all overwhelming for me. Right now I just want to know I am I suppose to know this is all anxiety? Maybe an answer will come.

HiI have GAD, but as some of you may know by my posts, dizziness has been with me since July 2015. THis week has been bad for me. Started on Monday I had to see my ENT to have some test done to see about the dizzieness, the dizziness I have is feeling like i'm on a boat, swaying and rocking, the times its bad are when i'm sitting and laying down. I also have the feeling of walking on marshmellos and the floor moving when I'm walking. Well the day of the test i had anxiety but was able to handle it, i had the VNG test and got thru all but the last part, they put the warm air in my right ear and oh my I felt like I was falling and the room was moving it was horrible. So they stopped the test, I went back down to see the doc to get results and the dizziness i had with the test was still there so I took a xanax and that helped. On tuesday got to work sat down at my desk and bam, the feeling of falling and moving hit and I couldn't get it under control, I was so very scared so another 1/2 a xanax and it helped again, it lasted until i got home and i felt it some again, so anxiety again. In the past 2 weeks my left arm has been hurting when i put it in certain positions, let me go back for a minute, I have been have Atlas orthogenal adjustments on my neck since december, i read it can help with headaches, dizziness and neck pain, its a chiropractor thing but not with the bad popping of the neck, they x-ray the neck to see if the C1 which is the atlas bone that holds the head in place is out of place and if so they begin with gentle adjustments that are done with a machine that looks like a gun but it put vibrations in the C1 to put it back in place. So on to yesterday and the arm pain, I called my regular chiropraactor and told him about the atlas stuff and he said come in so we can adjust the arm, and the ATlas doc said it was okay, so I went in and he found my shoulder was out and my upper rib, well he fixed and by the time I got home I think I scared myself thinking oh no what if I messed up my neck, so needless to say the floor was bouncing and when i sat down i felt like i was falling backwards and flipping. I didn't take the xanax instead i put ice on my neck and layed down, I didn't want to keep taking the xanax, I need to get well with the pills. Does all this sound normal with anxiety? I don't know about any of you, but do you ever just feel like you don't know the difference between being sick and anxious anymore. The ENT did say I have vestibular dysfunction and the part of the ear that tells the brain your not moving is stuck in the moving position so the brain thinks i'm moving even when I'm still. He said to take the xanax as needed and we will start therapy in March to retrain the brain to compensate with the ears. The xanax does come down the ear system, but I;ve read taking it can also stop the compensation process. I guess I should just listen to the doc. Today i have an appt with my endocrinologist to see how my thyroid levels are and i'm anxious about that to. Its been so crazy with the levels since Oct when i had the steriod injections for the neck pain, the steriods actually killed the thyriod meds i was taking and the anxiety came back bad. So i think all this crap this week has caused my anxiety to sky rocket, what do you think? I have been nervous since monday when i did the test and the dizziness hit, i have not been able to stop thinking about it. Do you ever do that obsess on one bad thing and then its happening again? I find I obsess about things all the time. It literally takes me months of obsessing before i can let it go. So now i'm having the same falling dizzy feeling i had on monday. i'm so tired, i'm so upset with how i think. I can't go to my psychologist any more coz i cant afford it. so i'm trying to get thru on my own. I find it odd how a mind can focus so hard on things and cause all this fear and worry. Then can go for years with none of this and have one health thing happen and it all comes back. I've been reading some books and doing a workbook on worry and anxiety. I spend alot of time talking to myself, telling myself your ok, it so silly. I'm afraid all the time, the slightest thing about health in myself or anyone will trigger fear, then anxiety and this awful cycle starts. I'm really tired. I pray for help everyday, sometimes i wonder if i'll get thru this, so i'm sad to.anyway thanks for listening

Hi Kylie Thank you so much for you response. Everything you said makes sense. I kept thinking the neck has alot to with it. I guess the doctors I've seen just couldn't give me an answer that made sense. Other than to say you have GAD and need to take anti depressants, well I tried those years ago and it was a disaster. So I won't try it again. The xanax is the only thing that doesn't make things worse. I don't take them every day, maybe 2-3 time a week if needed. Somedays I just need to not have to deal with all this and so I take them. I have been seeing a chiropractor who specializes in atlas orthogonal adjustments, that is the first bone in the neck that holds the head up and mine was very much out so he's been putting it back in. The info on it says it helps headaches and dizziness and there have been a few days in the past 2 weeks where I've had none to very low dizziness. But I will still be seeing my ENT in Feb to have the testing done to see if it is migraine associated. Its really hard to tell, because most days, i feel off balance when I stand up and move around, but also when I'm sitting I feel like I'm rocking or swaying on a boat, its the only way I can describe it. The ENT said he will not put all off to anxiety until the test are done. My endocrinologist is really wonderful, he has helped so much with things being all messed up. I was reading the other night and the info said with anxiety it come from fear we have already experienced, well this made since to me, when I first had the vertigo hit in July, i had been doing an exercise that had me going quickly up and down face first and of course my heart was pounding, but the dizziness came about 2 hours after this and i believe I have associated it with all of that, so now when I move, bend forward or doing things like cleaning, I have this dizziness, I'm afraid of moving now because i was moving so fast with the exercise and the dizziness came I have linked them. I know it sounds crazy, but it makes sense. I'm eccentrically afraid to do anything that has to do with moving. As for the sitting I think it could be the neck tension. i honestly don't know. Anxiety is a funny thing, it takes over. I've had it for many years and as you mentioned it can come from stress building, well most of my life has been about stress. I am one of those people who do things mself, I don't ask for help and maybe this is a message for me, to relax some and let others help, who knows. I have been trying to work thru it tho since reading your post. Trying to let the dizziness pass thru and sometime it does, but then there are times its harder. I think simply because its everyday and its been going on for 8 months. Sometime I asked myself, am I doing this to myself. Why I wonder. I do thank you so much for listening and all your help, you are very kind. Thanks and hugs back to you.

iI'm having a bad time. I don't know if I have anxiety or am sick. I have been feeling like this since last July. I think depression is creeping in now. I have had this dizziness and its making me crazy now. In July I had a vertigo attack and since then I'm terrified of it. I have been to 4 or 5 doctors for headahces, dizziness, neck pain, leg muscles pain, feeling nervous, panic attacks. I am waiting now for testing for the dizziness, the ENT thinks its migraine associtated vertigo, because the way it feels, I feel like I'm rocking on a boat when I'm sitting, standing, laying down. Everything I do I have this feeling, I can't bend forward without it, I can't sit and eat dinner without feeling like i'm moving or the room is moving, I can't mop without it, I can't shop without it, its litterally constant. The only time I get a break from it is when I take a xanax or am asleep. My neck and shoulders are tight all the time, i'm scared as soon as I wake up, I wake up every morning wondering, whats today going to be like, how will I get thru work again feeling like this. How can I turn off this worry, how will I take a shower without feeling like i'm going to fall. I wonder everyday how am I going to make it thru. What if, what it, what it. I've had alot of testing done, and it all normal, head ct, blood, neuro testing, my neuro gave me trigger point injections in sept & OCt and that messed up my thyroid medication, so the panic started. I'm so scared of anxiety and stress, but at the same time its constant. I've gone to my psychologist and it really didn't help. I don't want to take AD or anxiety meds all the time, but about 2-3 days a week i take the xanax just to get calmed. I'm starting to think something is really wrong and they won't find until its to late. I'm scared to disease and sickness. Any little thing that happens within my body I go nuts with worry. The dizziness is stuck with me, it terrifies me. The least little feeling from it and the anxiety and panic set it. Going to the store scares me so, because I know I will get dizzines and panic there, same with going to work, when i'm driving there i have this coughing fit and can't get air after the cough and then i panic. I know sitting at my desk i'm going to feel the swaying inside my body even tho i'm not moving and then i just get scared agian. I feel no way out. I've prayed, I've tried to accept this is probably how I will be the rest of my life, walking around dizzy and a afraid of everything. But nothing helps me. I try to hide it all, its so hard. I don't know if whats happening is anxiety. I sometimes feel like an idiot, I'm 53 yrs old and can't handle this. I know my hypothyroidism can effect this and maybe the menopause. But the fear now lives inside me. I want to cry all the time, but i can't, my family has been thru enough with me, having anxiety when the thyroid got messed up 15 yrs ago, then 5 yrs ago i went thru this with the vertigo and panic, did all the same things, the steriod injections then and the thyroid getting out of whack again, now I'm right back there, accept the dizziness is different now, it constant, where 5 yers ago it was BPPV and was fixed, but this time its not going way. I feel like a prisoner in my own body. The symptoms I have now are, dizziness all day, nervousness, agitation, hands trembling, ruminating thoughts, fear, neck and shoulder tightness and aches, headaches, nausea worry al the time, heart racing, sweating, blurry vision. Is this anxiety? Or something worse. I don't know anymore. I can't think anymore, all i do is look for answers. I search day and night online for answers, i read horror stories of dizziness and how it never goes away. I wonder will i have this forever, what will i do then, can i handle that, I can't i already know this. I sit here typing this, with tears running down my face and worry running thru my head. Will I be okay, will I survive. Why I do have to be so afraid all time.I watch other people and see how they look so happy and they go about their lives and don't have to think about these thing. They don't stand in the grocery line and freak out and think, I'm okay, I'm okay, no one knows your dizziness right now, no one knows your scared, can't the line move any faster. I see people laughing and i wish i could do that, not be afraid to be happy. I have no interest in anything anymore. I'm so afraid if I move I will be dizzy and when I am, then I get depressed. I then read ways to help anxiety, not to try to correct the thinking, don't distract thru the anxiety, its all confusing. Its hard to stop and think about things when your scared, try to relax thru, when all you want to do is stop it. I read and read trying so hard to figure it out, all I get is more fear that trying to get it right I'm getting it wrong. I don't know what do next. I feel doomed. I can't be that anxiety can cause all of this. I guess thats the real problem, I don't believe anxiety comes from no where, there has to be something causing it, it doesn't just show up in your life with no cause, there has to be some disease thats causing it. People don't wake up dizzy and there is no cause. Other than the doc saying its anxiety. I guess thats it, I don't believe it comes from nowhere. So I keep looking and trying to figure it out. Does this sound like anxiety? Thanks for listening and any help.

Kylie Thank you for you reply and pointing out a few things. I am not looking up things anymore, it def causes everything to be worse. I do journal and yes it helps. I'm just thankful to have someone to talk to . I try not to involve my family as they have gone thru this before with me and I'm sure its not fun for them listening to me cry and watching me be scared, so I try to hide it. Thank you for just listening.

HiI'm curious how you can have no anxiety or even think about it one day and the next your a mess? Yesterday I felt pretty good, no dizziness (this is my worst symptom), today I wake up and its already there. i've been trying so hard to work thru this. I've had so much going on medically that I'm just scared all the time. Then I left a message on a board yesterday and someone who was a psychiatrist, replied saying I need to go to a cardiologist and be checked for mitral valve syndrome. I have been able to stop thinking about it, I looked it up and the only symptom I have is anxiety, oh and faster heart rate, pulse of 82. I've been to so many doctors in the past 4 months that I would think they would have heard the clicking and blood staying in the valve if that was the case. I'm having thyroid issues, i'm hypo and my meds are alittle crazy, since i had the steriod injections in Oct for neck pain. I've also had dizziness since july and my ENT is testing and believes its from Migraine associated vertigo. So I guess with the dizzienss and anxiety and pulse going up some I now have mitral valve problems. I don't beleive that is the case, but my mind can't shut it off. All my symptoms are, dizziness all the time, feels like i'm rocking on boat no matter whether im sitting, standing, walking, shaking when i panic, slight headaches, muscle tension in my shoulder and neck, causes headache, sometime feel like i'm not breathing right, chocking feel at times, constant worry about my health, chills sometimes, legs ache at times, constantly checking heart rate and its usually 74-82.I don't understand how it can be fine one day then the next all whacked out again. I seem to have maybe 1-2 days a week where i feel okay. I also take xanax when I need it. I went thru all of this 5 years ago when peri menopaus started and 6 years before that when my thyroid starting acting up, but symptoms where all over the place. It was nice to have intervals of no anxiety, now its back. My body is such a mess, I just keep thinking all this stress and worry is going to make me sick if it hasn't already.Can someone please explain how this is good one day and literally off the next day?Thank you for any help.

Thank you for the reply. I'm so sorry about the deaths in your family, thats so sad. I'm also sorry about your job. You sound like me, you keep going in hopes that it will improve, I pray the same for all of us. Thank you and best to you

HI I hope you all are well. I've been having a tough time for the past 7 months, it all started in July when I had a bad vertigo attack and since then things are all wrong. I have continuous dizzy daily, it feels like I'm swaying or riding on a fair ride, it goes thru my entire body, it happens when I stand, sit or lay down, it seems to be worse when i'm sitting esp here at work. I have also been having some thyroid med issues and they have been out of level. I have been to my primary care doc and he says its, well first he said it was BPPV with the vertigo so I had some things done but no relief, so i went back and then he said anxiety, here take zoloft, well didn't do that. I also had bad head and neck pain so I had trigger point injections done in oct and then is when my thyroid went all crazy, of course thyroid can cause anxiety to. I am hypothyroid. I'm also in 3rd yr of postmenopaus, needless to say I'm a wreck. I do take .25 xanax when needed, but seems lately thats been alot for me, I usually take it once or twice a month, but now its 3 times a week. My symptoms now are, dizziness, muscle tension in the neck, slight headaches, nervousness, heart pounding at times, but the pulse is like 82, ruminating thougts, legs feel tight in the thighs and tired, fear of doing things, feel better if someone is with me. I'm also in the middle of testing for my thyriod and cortisol and adrenal and I'm waiting for testing in regards to the dizziness, my ENt doc thinks its silent migraines causing the dizziness, he said alot of people have the dizziness instead of the headache, I wake every morning in fear, have what I call a small panic feeling, my heart beats faster, hand shake, nervousness, head and neck pain after a while. I get esp nervous about sitting at work because the dizziness is there almost everyday all day. I think when I had this vertigo attack somethin in my mind got messed up. Like I can;t get it out of my head. I keep thinking its something awful, but they did a brain scan and said it was fine, my chiro ex rayed my neck and yes its out but no tumors or anything, am also working on the neck. I have been seeing my psychologist and she agree's i have underlying anxiety but also have real physical symptoms with the dizzienss. I know you can have dizzienss with anxiety but thats usually from hyperventilation, mine is all day. I am trying very hard not to let it bother me, but its hard, when you feel off balance and like your moving all the time, it can be very depressing. I'm curious if any of you have this type of dizzienss and what your doing about it? Besides seeing the psychologist I bought a anxiety work book and have been working in that. According to what I've read anxiety and worry is about something deeper that your trying to not deal with. I've been asking myself if I"m making myself sick for some reason. I don't know. I know I went thru alot of deaths last year and after the first one is when the vertigo came, it was about 4 months later. I don't handle death well, I lost my grandmother years ago and I never really got over it. Even sitting here typing about it is making me dizzy. I also wonder can my being stressed all the time make me get some disease. I worry about disease all the time. I wonder if worrying about stress and anxiety is causing more anxiety? I'm constantly looking for answers, looking for sickness, waiting for something bad to happen. My rational mind know people get sick and die, its part of life, but my anxous mind won't let it go. WEll thanks for listening and if anyone has any words of advise or help, I would love to hear about it. Thanks Flagirl

HII feel like a complete idiot. I went to the ear nose and throat doc yesterday for this dizziness I've been having. He said he thinks it could be migraine associated vertigo. The symptoms I told him about where, gray vision the day before the headache and dizziness get bad, feel like I'm rocking on a boat when I sit, stand or lay down, anxiety of course (which he said is normal because of the fear of whats going on. Well he wants to run these test and i was reading one of them from the info they gave me and it said can tell if a person may have MS, a stroke or tumor. Well I read this last night and went to bed feeling my heart beating and woke up the same way, and I can't stop thinking I may have MS. I know it stupid and irrational, but after I got up this morning I started to feel light headed and thinking about what I read. He said he thinks MAV and there are 6 tests he wants to do and I did these test 5 years ago when I had vertigo. I don't understand how just reading what a test is for and what it can find can do this and cause all these thoughts and fear. I'm going to give you all my symptoms and you decide. I don't want to read about MS, so i'll give them to you. Dizziness ( feels like I'm rocking or swaying, anxiety, headaches, ear fullness occasionally, hot flashes and night sweats ( in 3rd yr of menopause) lightheaded, vision off when afraid, can't concentrate at times, neck pain and tension, legs ache & tightness, back pain, nausea, hands shake at times, constant checking to see if something is wrong, worried all the time, heart pounding, shallow breathing, chest tightness like can't expand it to take deep breath, feel like i'm floating, floors feels like its moving when i walk. I don't know if this sound like MS, I am afraid to look it up. My tests are not until Jan 25th and I don't want to spend the next 3 weeks worried. What do you think? i hope just anxiety.THanks for your help

Hi I am having constant anxiety and lots of dizziness. I've been having the dizziness since July I was told it's BPP V then I was told it was anxiety and I've been told it's anxiety by a few doctors. I had a brain CT and it came out normal blood test came out normal the only thing that's off is that I'm hypothyroid which I've been since 2002. The dizziness is with me a lot every day and I don't know if it's the anxiety causing it or if it's something else. It feels like I'm rocking out about when I'm sitting standing or laying down. Sometimes when I'm sitting at my desk working I get what I call adrenaline rushes and feel like I'mgoing to fall off the chair but I don't. I've noticed my legs and arms feel tired and weak and are sore I don't know that's anxiety or because I'm constantly trying to balance myself. Anyone has any help could you please help me thanks