Beginning To Realize How Dangerous High Anxiety/Stress Levels Can Be

[Manic11]

My health is in terrible condition right now. I've been sick since July 09! I would get very ill all of a sudden, get treated, go back to work and a week later I'd be down again with either something different or the exact same thing. This time my throat and neck has swollen up and I'm having a lot of trouble breathing. This is the third time this has happened so I demanded answers from my doctor other than him telling me "its just a bad run of luck!"
He explained to me that it is because of my stress and anxiety levels. My anxiety has taken over my life so much that it's cause my physical health to decline.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Has your anxiety or stress level been so out of control that its caused your health to decline?

Stress and anxiety is a dangerous thing... I guess I just had no idea how dangerous...

Manic

 

[Farine]

Hey there, Manic!

I 'm still fairly envious that you have a horse! I"ve wanted one for ages and ages! I'm sorry because if you've been ill then you've been missing some connection time with your horse :(

 

[Manic11]

Mmm. Thanks hun. I'm very lucky to have her.
I've seen her only maybe once or twice in the past week. I miss her so so much! I will post more pictures of her soon! Once I'm better.

:)
Manic

 

[Lionheart]

Anxiety and stress became intense for so long that I became disabled. I developed Chronic fatigue syndrome, couldn't stand up on my own two legs and lost my job. So, yeah I 'd say it can ruin one's health.

 

[Artista]

A few years ago I began waking up at 4:30 AM or so for a few nights throwing up...well.. no dry-heaving. Thought i was pregnant, but my stomach has always not felt well for my most of my life. It does coincide with my first trauma... I was tested for stomach ulcers in 4th grade at 10 years old, because for a long time I complained. They never found anything and I just accepted it as normal for me.

Anxiety does do a lot to us we do not acknowledge. I so hope once I get a bit more of a handle on my ptsd, it will alleviate even more. I manage as best I can with diet and exercise (and Tae Kwon Do- punching things that are safe to!!!). This was after going the Gastroenterologist route for YEARS and every test imaginable except exploratory surgery. I never feel 'right', just better. Much better than any pill did for me. It is now at least manageable. And therapy and letting this out in any way I can has also helped I think. Holding all that in is horrible for us. The more I approach my anger in a healthy, positive way, I am hoping this poison will lessen.

 

[WildWitch]

A life time of Anxiety, Trauma , Stress... I believe for me was the number one cause of me developing fibromyalgia. I was diagnosed with that five years ago, then diagnosed with PTSD soon after. After dealing with all that, I was diagnosed with R.A on top of it this last December.

I'm 36 years old, I should be running around with my teenage children. Instead I have a hard time catching up to my elderly mother. I try not to let it get to me, and try to find something positive about it. It helps to cope.

 

[James B.]

My anxiety has been kicking my ass for 50 years.

Stomach problems? You bet. Still no morning apetite, food seems very un-appealing in the AM. I have been zeroing in on my ideal diet, and had some 'validation' to my instincts when I discovered the 'blood type diet' concept, based on DNA. This is where my instincts led me 3 years ago when I lost 30 pounds on a fitness crusade. Basically looking at what my ancestors ate. I am going to work with this idea, even though the meals get repetetive, I like that.

Am also finding this out about relaxation, and getting rid of excess adrenaline and lactic acid. About four times a week, sometimes twice a day, I go to a spa with deep hot tubs, natural hot spring fed. Its mainly the hot water, and what soaking and floating in it day after day has done. But the cool thing is, getting poached in the 104 degree water, then soaking in the cold pool also. This hot cold (vaso-dialate/vaso-constrict) water thing is old school - pro trainers emphasis it to "reduce the highly acidic post work-out state of the body".

Look, I got Stage 11 freaking PTSD, getting up and breathing is a work out, ok? Reduce adrenaline? For me it is immediate short term relief that has a strong 'cumulative' curve. Meaning, it seems to add up. Am going to continue this modality, and see how it goes.

My other tool for anxiety, that has literally kept me in the drivers seat is 50mg Seroquel XR @ night. iT was almost like night and day and because of the absence of symptoms, I got to get a feel for how pervasive my anxiety is - effecting every nook and cranny of my life.

OK, that's enough, but the hot tub? For me its king.