always good to hear good news..

I wish I could say the same. Burning skin still there ..all over my body. painful legs and shoulders, very fatique-tired. chest pain. My psychologist which I visit for some month now due to my doc thinks its anxiety and RLR thought a lot was anxiety related, thinks that anxiety has something to do with my sy,mptoms but she also thinks and notice i´m not as nearly as anxious that would normaly be logical with all my brusk symptoms. my heart rate in rest and through the day which were high a year ago are now fine. only in exercise it is quite high cause I have , i quess, a poor exercise condition. i am totaly out of shape.
I´m very disappointed that my symptoms doesnt subside or lessen .
the last weeks I had some anxiety like attacks at night.. trembling, feeling like passing out, warm , chest pain, belching a lot, but I got through them with a laugh on my face. `its all anxiety is what I say to myself.. and if i´m unlucky and it isnt anxiety , well than this is it, but I cant do anything more than that I did. I had tests, and been back to my doc now twice, asked some questions here,... nobody thinks something bad is going on..so.. what can i do more ??'

I wish that someone could explain me my burning skin for 4 weeks now.. all over my body , and 24/7 .. I get more and more aching legs. they feel heavy and bit painful on the muscles there....same on my shoulders and arms ..
its almost bizarre that no one (my doc, psychologist, also here) really cant explain why this in my case  is caused by anxiety and not something else( neuropathy) and what I can do about it?

It shouldnt be that difficult to know the difference I asked my doc?
But he said it is very difficult in this kind of vaque symptoms.
only because I have no weak reflexes or weakness he thinks its ok. but no quarantees as usual.
Thats why I want to know more about this .

I dont feel anxious , I feel disappointed. and almost frustrated why my symptoms are there 24/7 and never ever go away. Is that really anxiety or stress. or my CHV? I really want it to be..but how do I know?

Hi richie,
I get those shooting pains in my chest that radiate to left shoulder and arm plus to my upper back.  I don't bother with them anymore. They come and go as they please. I've spent a lot of time and money trying to get to the bottom of this. I know they're not heart related, or gastro-intestinal, or musculoskeletal - ruled out these after too many tests/procedures etc. One dr mentioned that it might be a nerve that misfires at times, but it's not something to worry about.
Try to ignore them. The more you focus on them the more they're going to control your life. (it's just an opinion based on my own experience)
best
Alex

Just wanted to do a quick update:  I have been doing better with my anxiety in dealing with these skips and all my other anxiety symptoms.....one thing that is 100% sure is that Anxiety is the cause....how do I know this?  Because I have been studying myself from a global vantage point which I have never done before....watching my thoughts, behaviors, habits etc and it is AMAZING how many of these things are completely automatic now.

I have had some of the best moments, half days etc in years over the past couple of weeks.

I guess the best advice I can give is to watch yourself closely and it will be scary how many things you do soautomatically are causing what you hate.....

If you hit yourself in the finger with a hammer, and keep asking yourself why does my finger hurt, rather than putting the hammer down.....this is exactly what you are doing with yourself.....stop asking why your body is reacting to stress, find out the causes and then change that behavior, thoughts etc.

It isnt easy but it is the way out.

Typer wrote on Jul 5^th, 2012, 6:21pm:



Hi again...sorry to quote my own post. Just wanted to say that for me, the more I do notice my body and how tense it is, as above...and by reminding myself regularly to breath properly and to unclench - my stomach acid and palps seemed to have lessened. In fact if I catch the tension in time, I can almost ensure the acid retreats most times. I have to say I am not sure how or why it works for me...onoy that by being mindful, I am getting a little better.

I agree though, its useful f we can get to the cause...but in my experience not always necessary which is why CBT works for some. For me the cause is not so much the horrendous stress I've had, but how I view stress and how I deal with, or more appropriate to me personally, how I do not deal with it.

I do know 2 people personally who have had palps after a bereavement but they went as time passed. For me its an inability to deal with stress and it sort of manifests in my body with palps and other maladies... too many to mention

Great Example...
I had to take a rep of mine to lunch yesterday.  I was having bad skipped beats all morning and I have stopped trying to figure out why for a while now so who knows why.  In the car on the way there I was really getting anxious....I just wanted to turn around and go home and crawl in to a hole.....but instead I stopped all my anxious thoughts on a dime and said lets look at this a different way.  SO I started looking at myself from a global view....I was tensing every muscle in my body, I was breathing erratically and my thoughts were going crazy!  So I took a step back and started with my thoughts.

I said RLR says these things are not dangerous...I have had all of the heart test with the same result....so why am I nervous.

Then I started looking in to all of the tenseness and said to myself you need to relax...if you are going to die from these beats then at least enjoy the last minutes of your life.

Next I went to my breathing...I slowed it down and thought of something relaxing.

After that I just engaged myself in conversation with my rep and said whatever will be will be and told myself to stop wasting my life trying to protect myself against every feeling I have.

It is stress causing these feelings...so realize it is stress and work on the causes not the feelings that come with it!

Hope this helps!

last weeks , beside my continous skin burning for 2 months now almost, I experience more and more symptoms from my chest and heart.
I believe I have constochondritis like complaints on my chest. For the last 3 or 4 months I could reasonable easily put my fear for my chestsensations beside me. The thing is that it always feels like my body will produce more and more pain or symptoms that eventually I fall back in doubts. last weeks I notice I can hardly stand up straight or walk anymore or my chestpain increases instantly from 2or 3  to 5 or 6 or more (scale to 10)when I stand up and start walking. I almost start belching at the same time . It has come to a point that I dont like to stand up !!??  let alone walking and go out. The pain increases instantly while doing this and it sometimes it feel like its a bit stupid to keep walking or even standing up when this gives me more pain??!
Also at night I sometimes experience strange panic like sensations. I call them panic like cause I dont recognize whats going on. When i go to sleep i can hardly lay on my left or right side due to the pain on my chest. so only the back remains. I fall asleep quite easily and then after one or two hours I often wake up and instantly my chest and heart go wild. I feel nausiated and start beching like crazy. sometimes even trembling( the last symptom I often think its anxiety related like) the trembling and shivering is now gone , but I have this belching , nausiating feeling, painful chest, left shoulder and jaw and palpitations. So its all back..
The strangest thing is that including my shrink  and my doc thought and thinks my anxiety was less. He still thought that my skin burning was still anxiety related although the ER doc two weeks ago didnt think that there was any relation.

It probably is anxiety, also the chest pain symptoms belching and so on, but it isnt getting better..
its a strange and difficult to deal with

hi George

I live in another country then you do. In my country costochondritis  isnt diagnosed . when you know what its not, you may call it costochondritis if you want to, but you cant be 100% diagnose costochondritis .. thats what my doc said.
So its not that easy to say I have it. I have symptoms that very well could be costo said my doc. but also anxiety is mentioned. also CHV.
you would think all would take another treatment, but again, my doc says in my case the treatment isnt that different.
The doctor and in the hospital people know to say what I dont have but dont know what I do have. So anxiety is named. which is true. I dont deny that. CHV is tested and diagnosed. costochondritis could be.

the sunburning feels like a constant sunburn like carpetrub like burning on my legs and arms and torso, feet and hands. when my skin touches clothes or my bed blankets it feels itchy burning. when I sit my buttock feels slight burning. my back feels the same burning when i sit against something with my back. when you rub your skin the burning intensifies. but also when not touching it ..they feel like sunburning on my skin ..mostly the legs..  when i stretch my wrists or kness I can feel it intensify
leaning on my arms.. burning intensifies there.
Laying under my blankets and it gets warmer..it feels hot, and around my kness more burning. its constantly there. sometimes a bit cold burning on my legs espescially when I dont touch anything with it
hope this gives you more idea if its the same