Kathryn
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Hi
It's taken me a long while to accept (I can't write it all as I still feel I am jinxing myself) but again this is in my head!
I had every blood test possible, I had a 24 hour wee sample, I had a scan on my lungs, ECG's countless, Echo and 24 hour ECG, all showed benign palpitations, never had a missed beat whilst on a machine, this bothered me for a long while, still does on occasions just not as often, All my blood tests have come back fine, except the 2 I have mentioned before, but they were nothing to worry about, So far my BP has been good, my cholesterol a year 1/2 ago was good, I have to take on that information, these are facts not something someones just made up. I've had to accept that it's anxiety along with IBS, that has been extremely difficult for me and still is, it's a slow progress, you will all be ok, There was a few of us on the last site, Mia posts very occasionally and Suzy but I can assume they are doing ok, probably having bad days but ok. So my point is you all will too, lots of people experience Palpitations and missed beats etc.. but some do not even know they do. I honestly know how you all feel when it's happening it's awful and so restrictive. I'm not trying to preach to you all I'm just saying I was where you are a year or more ago and I've progressed.
Changing my diet and other habits helps alot, and you must stick to it. I know not all of you have anxiety disorders, but most do and once you take that first step it's a start. A year ago I'd have never gone for Parent Governor, and would have totally freaked with all the courses and paperwork that go with it, but I'm not. I decided I do not want to look back on my 20's 30's however long I kept myself in that state, thinking I wasted it worrying, or for my children to reminiss and see mummy been this stress, worried person all the time. Keeping yourself stressed for many years isn't good for you either.
Many doctors are not very comforting, my main doctor (as I have to see whoevers free on the day normally which could be 1 of 7 different doctors going over the same thing over and over) got quite frustrated with me, to the point where I'd panic about going, I even took my mum! As I was convinced she had missed some vital indication that something was terribly wrong and that anxiety could not posssibly cause how I'm feeling. As it happens it wasn't just it was my IBS too, but what caused that - Stress! From this site I have come a long way, I'm still not there but I know I am the only one who can make myself be better, Not all the pills the doctors keep trying to give to me but me.
I paniced myself today as I had a terrible headache last night and a bit of one today and my eyes have hurt when moving them side to side, So went to the doctor and he said could be Migraine, tension or sinuses!
Also another thing for us ladies is our hormones I can guarantee my anxiety will flare up more when my period is due, which then causes muscle tension, nervous indigestion adding to the excess wind I get anyway, missed beats, racing heart, feeling really odd, pains in my stomach, and this is also true for those of you going through your menopause. One doctor said to me it's natural for women to feel more anxious nearer their periods, it's a natural response.
What we do not realise when we are anxious is that our bodies are only reacting how they should be, but too much and for the wrong situations. It's survival instint, you would experience alot of your symptoms if faced with imminant danger, but our thought's fool our bodies and put us in this state, then we panic more about those symptoms.
I've probably rambled on and made absolutely no sense.
Kath x
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