SOOooooosick Help!

I walk and pace much of the day so tense I could explode, I cant sleep, I have severe burning sensations and hundreds of other miserable sensations. Some days the agitation lets up then I am in bed so sick I feel like I could die - horrible total body sick and many more nerve hell sensations.

I am extremely drug sensitive and everything I have been prescribed made me much worse. I do deep breathing when I can.

Is this anxiety - I don't see others doing this extreme agatation then the switch to sick

James

James

Welcome to HealingWell and I am glad to see you have heard from several of our awesome members.

I am wondering if you have been dx with generalized anxiety disorder ? I understand you have 4 friends with degrees but would still promote your making an appointment with a Pyschiatrist as someone that is working for you in an official capacity is different then just asking friends what they think ? Just my 2 cents worth on that topic. 

Is this anxiety/  I suspect you certainly are experiencing anxiety second degree to all your physical sx and a wrong dx. 

Wondering if you have ever seen a Neurologist for the burning sensations ? Perhaps the burning is from peripheral neuropathy but only a physician can confirm what is going on with the burning and other physical illness.

Please keep on talking with us as it is good to just get your feelings out.

I habe been to many doctors and misdiagnosed about as many times

Once I got off benzos it took me 3 years to recover and then all the symptms and burning stopped and have not had any for over 20 years until this past 3 years. In fact those 20 plus years I had no anxiety.

Yes I have seen a neurologist and he sent me to a new psychiatrist...again who said anxiety but he had never seen the burning or the severe agatation that keeps me walking and pacing all day

^{The last psychiatrist I saw was also a neurologist. He said that peripheral neuropathies don't move around like my burning does. Mine can also totally stop for hours and occurs inside my head, mouth, face and all over my body but it migrates.}

^{I had been at least 20 years with no anxiety. Then in 2006 I was pushing my self hard with athletic workouts, family responsibilities and my own fragile nervous system.}

^{I had to make an urgent trip over 1,000 miles for a sick family member. We were gone 6 weeks and when I got home I was exhausted from the drive, had been having severe dizziness and nausea.  Woke up a week later at 2:00 am with my first panic attack in decades. Also had vertigo - so scared went to doctor that morning and he could find noting wrong so he sent me to an ENT specialist.}

^{He totally misdiagnosed me - scared the crap out of me and I went home to worry. Woke up in middle of the night with every symptom of my old anxiety back plus many of my Xanax withdrawal symptoms. This was 3.5 years ago - for a long time I thought the benzo withdrawal was back after 21 years and that scared the hell out of me - now I think it is a HIGHLY sensitized nervous system but I can't take medications and can’t get it to calm down.}

^James. 

Post Edited By Moderator (stkitt) : 8/6/2010 12:35:34 PM (GMT-6)