Weird/ freaky physical symptoms you have due to PTSD ?

[Deleted member 47099]

I do the extremely shallow breathing and breath holding too. That combined with unintentional undereating, and it seems like my body is trying to kill itself. ?

With sudden blood sugar drops I feel like I'm going to collapse in weakness. I don't know what foods trigger it but it's always super sudden and a little scary.

Yeah, sudden blood sugar drops are horrible.

I actually get really panicked and intensely miserable - I have a super strong negative emotional reaction to the blood sugar crashes. My brain throws out all the "this is HORRIBLE" emotions it can think of, to protest the blood sugar crash.

Thank you for everyone who's replied so far. It does seem that not-breathing and not-eating is not very helpful for the body, huh? :bag:

I guess it's ridiculous I'm even suprised I get these weakness things :bag:

I've been making an effort to eat better/ more regularly these last 2 weeks and have been doing well, compared to usual.

I guess with the focus on deep breathing plus regular meals, I might see improvement in the symptoms?

 

[sunshineandmoonshine]

Yeah, sudden blood sugar drops are horrible.

I actually get really panicked and intensely miserable - I have a super strong negative emotional reaction to the blood sugar crashes. My brain throws out all the "this is HORRIBLE" emotions it can think of, to protest the blood sugar crash.

Yup. Me.

 

[Deleted member 47099]

Yes... I had so many fights with my ex hubs due to the extreme blood sugar
Yup. Me.

Uh huh. My ex noticed it far more than I did. If I was in a bad mood/ we were arguing he would ask "When did you last eat??" cos I'm normally pretty calm and kind, so it's noticeable when I get grumpy.

In the end, he started carrying around chocolate bars for me, so he'd be able to take action when I had a blood sugar crash :bag:

 

[Tinyflame]

Yes I have a sister like that^ , but food (not chocolate bars) helps.

I don't think I experience much dissociation, but last night I woke up, not very late-between 1 and 2 a.m (sober)., feeling like the room was sort of spinning- or I was, chest pain, feeling very sick, and thought,, 'well I guess I feel so sick because I am going to feel like outright throwing up in a minute'. (?) Then I fell asleep again, woke up with my all my sheets pushed to the bottom (not an easy feat- 1 sheet and 2 heated blankets), but the comforter pulled up. And hugging one (only) stuffed animal (small) from the side of the side of the bed, the others were there, and a hoodie from the bottom up at the top. ? Go figure-?

 

[Deleted member 47099]

Oh crikey, @Junebug that sounds like a very restless sleep! Hope you're feeling okay now. I guess you were dreaming all sorts of weird stuff?

So I had a brief moment of "that weak feeling" this afternoon and quickly remembered to check in to see if I could tell/ notice what was going on and sure enough, I was holding my breath without being aware of it. Not sure if this is always what happens, but I will keep looking out for it, and hopefully I can pick up on the contributing factors over time.

I never realised that I would literally hold my breath like that. And I didn't realise that I was completely unaware of it. It's kinda making me wonder how often/ how much I hold my breath during any given day? :bag:

It's certainly a stress-reaction. And given there are multiple times a day when I feel mildly stressed, I may be doing this a LOT.

When it happened earlier, the situation was really non-eventful. I'd just gotten home and was waiting for my housemate to unlock the door. Other than "having to wait" it was a non-stressful situation. So if something as minor as "waiting" causes me to stop breathing, then I think I probably do this *heaps*.

 

[Tinyflame]

Also certain pressure on nerves in my back/ spine, leads to weakness in my legs or arms.

 

[Nuance]

Chronic exhaustion, neck/back pain. I sometimes black out and lose my balance if I get overwhelmed. My physical handicap is weirdly a trigger for my PTSD. So my mood directly impacts my physical symptoms and vice versa.

 

[Hopeforlife]

My breathing becomes almost non existent. Like I forget to breath properly. I feel like all my insides are tense and being restricted. I get very itchy hands and feet like there are ants crawling over them. I get sort of tics in my eyelids. Almost like they are pulsing. I also have involuntary jerks in my lower back/spine which is linked to my trauma and sexual arousal.

 

[Missing Mermaid]

I relate a lot to what has been said. I am always on the go, as in moving and I need to exercise for a few hours a day or I get super keyed up and antsy (I also have adhd)

when I have times where I am not working out or moving, I feel faint and like I am going to drop (but can’t sleep). However I do hold my breath a lot and don’t eat probably enough for the amount I move during the day.

I don’t really recognize hunger cues or if I am thirsty or embarrassingly enough if I have to go to the bathroom until it is all emergent. I also have a stupid high pain tolerance and often fail to notice if I am sick which leads to things like almost missing that I needed my appendix out or getting sick enough for 104.2 fever. I think this is me zoning out when my body feels things? idk. It is embarrassing especially if a doctor asks me a pain scale. Or like my husband or friend makes me go to the doctor and I have a suspected tractor or like when I got Scarlett fever....

 

[Mytime]

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[chipman]

My body is a wreck thanks to childhood trauma and years of PTSD. I have so many chronic issues, including fibro, IBS, migraines, chronic pain, just to name a few.

I also have a lot of weird symptoms that have totally puzzled my doctors over the years. Sometimes, after years of looking for a cause, we would eventually find one. But often, it's just inexplicable.

I don't know how many of those symptoms may be attributable to PTSD?

One physical symptom that really bugs me and scares me is that I'll often feel physically weak to the point I think I'm going to collapse. Sometimes I feel like a frail 90 year old woman.

I've been tested for just about everything over the years, but with only few results.

Could these feelings of intense physical weakness be trauma-related?

If it's possible to feel such huge and sudden changes like depersonalisation, derealisation, dissociation - is it possible to also have really big shifts in what your body feels like?

Most of the time when I feel like this, I just go and lay down and curl up under a blanket. This has doubtlessly made my muscles even weaker over the many years of PTSD, so it's probably not the best response, but I seriously feel like I will collapse/ faint if I don't lie down.

Could it be due to highly fluctuating adrenaline levels?

I dunno.

I guess I'd be grateful to hear if others get super weird/ freakish/ kinda scary PTSD body symptoms too. Maybe then I can feel less freaked out by suddenly feeling so weak for no apparent reason...?

Have you had a lab test on how your thyroid is working. I have to take a synthetic thyroid to help me with regulation of my body temperature. I'm not a doctor nor have I played one on television

 

[Deleted member 47099]

I'm not a doctor nor have I played one on television

Haha :)

Yeah, I take a synthetic thyroid too. I agree that body temp is affected by the thyroid. :tup:

What I mean are like "cold spells" tho. Like suddenly feeling really cold for an hour.