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I'm sick of always thinking I'm dying too. It's really interfering with my life right now. A couple of weeks ago I finally had a panic attack from cumulative stress, which sent me to the doctor, who I had been avoiding for about 5 years. Thank god it did, because I'm not avoiding the doctor anymore.

Avoiding the doctor might not be your problem, but he gave me a short-term prescription for Ativan (lorazepan) and I take it when I get anxious. I've been getting extremely nervous about a particular health issue lately, and when I take the pill, the irrational fear goes away. It's amazing, I feel like a normal, rational human being.

I don't know if you've done this, but my point is you must talk to your doctor about your hypochondria and get into therapy for it. I'm starting therapy soon, and I'm seeing my doctor again soon who might choose to put me on a longer-term drug (not forever). It's the best thing you can do for yourself, and it really works! You might not get past it 100%, but you'll get to a much better place, I promise.

PS. I discovered a cyst on the back of my head when I was younger, and of course was convinced I had a brain tumor. It's nothing, and it's still hanging out there! It's not visible fortunately.

oh yeah, and I get a sore throat a lot from being stressed or upset--stress can do unbelievable things to the body. I felt very acute and terrifying physical symptoms during my panic attack, and it took time before I came to believe my symptoms were caused by stress. I felt sick and depressed for the following week. Fortunately I have something new to obsess about!

If you or anyone you know has trouble with anxiety, get The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook. It's a fascinating read, and works with you to pin down your problems and helps you to deal with them, and points you toward other resources. It doesn't seem to have a lot on hypochondria specifically (I'm only part way through it) but it's still incredibly helpful, and I have other anxiety issues it helps me with too.

Hopefully you're frustrated enough by now to seek help; don't be afraid to, it's a healing process.

oh! oh! and I also thought I had AIDS once too! :D

man, im only 16 and ive had so much anxiety and panic attacks and the most ANOYINNG THING IN THE WORLD HEART PALPITATIONS OMG THERE SO GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! but anyways im always thinking everyday of my life, here we go again, im fixing to die. and thats usually when im alone and bored, but when im in school everything is normal, not one thing wrong with me. when im having fun with friends,,, nothing wrong with me, its just my mind wonders. see just now something just happened, i got focused on typing this and my palps were gone, but later on tonight they'll act up like little fags and keep me up for bout an hour and have me scared for my life im gunna die,,, see man its just gay. and i mean its just the littlest things that get me worried, my belly might start hurting and im like FUCK I GOT STOMACH CANCER..... then im just like shut the hell up man your stupid, you just got to talk to yourself and call your self a lil bitch cause in reality, NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU I WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND HE SAID I HAD PERFECT HEALTH. just feelt like speaking my heart, sorry for curssing but had to do it, JESUS CHRIST SAVES AND IS MY SAVIOR AND GOD IS LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps... feel free to email me,,,, MAVS1819@yahoo.com

Hey I am only 15 years.I think I will die when alone.I always feel like vomiting but when I try there is no vomiting.I always feel sick.I checked the net.Symtomps for brain tumour.One symtomp is matching with one I am suffering from.I think I will die.Please anybody help.The thought is killing me.Please help me.

For the 16 y/o with the heart palpatations: you should see a cardiologist just in case to make sure your heart is ok. Most likely they are caused from the anxiety you get from your hypochondrism, but you may also have a heart murmer or something else wrong w/ your heart. The heart is not something you should play with.

To the person that feels like vomiting all the time, have you ever thought about going to the doctor?? You may just have some sort of acid reflux disease or Gastro-intestinal problem. The doctor can give you a pill to make it go away, there is nothing worse than worrying about "what it could be."

You guys should be seen for your ailments (INCLUDING YOUR HYPOCHONDRISM) and stop posting about it on the internet!! Being afraid of "the unknown" will only make your anxiety worse.

To the person that is cussing up a storm at these people: You get a life, these people are just scared and asking for help.

Good luck to you all.

I too have been thinking im dying since as long as i can remember..this past time, my anxiety came back after giving birth to my 3 year old twins, i also have a 5 year old. all i do is cry over the fact that my children have to grow up without a mother....even though i have not been diagnosed with anything other then being a hypocondriac. i have been in therapy for the last 3 years and it has helped me tremendously. i have chosen to do this without the help of medicine. but for the first time, in november, i took xanex for a flight i was taking and it was like the best thing ive ever done...lol but i only want to depend on drugs on a need to have basis, not day to day. as much as i feel for all of you, it makes me glad that i am not alone.

I'm 15 years old and cant stop thinking im dying but i dont have any illnesses or injures, i have been looking on websites like signs of death and and signs the body is shuting down and i believe i have some of them. this has never happend to me before it just kinda poped out of no where last week i get chest palpatations and this funny felling im my chest like tickly or something even when im calm and chest pain and really light headed i have been really cooled to and the biggest part that makes me think im dying is i have become withdrawn for people and eatting and drinking less and have been very tired even when i sleep all night. i'm so scared and dont know what to do.Scence this has never happend to me i keep thinking its a sign for god telling me to get ready i am so scared can anyone help me give some advise i would greatly apprestiate it.thanks.

I am 19 and i first had my panic attack in my sleep.i thought i was dying my fiancee was freaking out and everything.So since than i have one everynight if i dont take xanax and i dont like depening on that and im pregant now and have a two year old i dontknow what to do anymore I always feel like im dying. 24/7 i feel out of place with what the dr's said anxiety but people tell you to chill out nothing is wrong..its hard to talk to people that arent going through it or never has. They really dont understand..All during the day i think about death because my legs tingle my head hurts i feel the need to throw up its whackk i know but now that im pregnant it scares me more ya knoe more to think about i just hope someone reads this and gives me some advice cause i really need some helppp... badd i used to be a social butterfly wow i was an outgoing person and i want that back ...

Hello my names danielle I am 18yrs old I was reading a lot about what I go through everyday. I always think I'm going to die every single day my stomach hurts I think I have stomach cancer but in reality nothing wrong with me at all. one time my mother took me to the emergency room because I freaked myself out thinking I had a brain tumor. I can't do this anymore I go
To the doctors a lot because I always think I have somthing or somthings wrong with me. I cry somtimes I hate living with this. I hardly can go anywhere anymore I can't travel because I feel what if I get sick and I need to go to the hospital and I can't get to one. If I start getting hot I think I have a fever then I freak out if I don't get tylonal to make it go down I will die. Somtimes if I go somewhere I take my thermomiter with me just to check my temp so I know if I have a temp if I have to go home!!! Like today is the 29th of april 2009 and the swine flu is going around so the past fee days I have worried myself sick thinking I have the flu so I checked the symtoms and I'm so scared I'm going to die.. So I won't go out of the house because I think I'm going to get it and I have a bad imune system so I probly will
Die.... Everyone thinks it's all in my bed but it's not and I'm not crazy. I can't live like this anymore.....I get panic attacks if I think I have somthing I can't breath I get dizzy because I think the worst of the worst ... I hardly can go anywhere without having a plan to come home if I get sick even at the mall. I'm always worried

I get sick all the time worrying myself to death I dot know if it's in my head. I feel like my hearts pounding all the time. I can't take medicine I freak out. I always feel like I'm going to throw up. I wake up in the middle of the night my hearts pounding and I'm sweating and feel
Super sick like I
Going to throw up...... People just don't understand they think it's in my head

hi im 24 and always hink iv got something wrong most of the time cancer . Everyday im convinced i will die young and my little boy wont even remember his mum . Does anyone who feels like this get really bad chest pains and ache all over iv felt like this all week and im petrified that this is definatly it im dying . I really hate been like this i cant enjoy my 2 year old coz im 2 busy worrying my boyfriend is fed up with it 2 now please reply my names jay .

Danielle, its not in ur head but its a fear u have. i had dat hear for a long time to. i can help u thru it like someone helped me. it takes time and do this step by step. now i can go out and travel and not worry about wat im going to catch or if i bought enough medecine wit me or worry were the closest hospital is. if ur interested in how i got helped, let me know and we can contact each other by email. trouble01@hotmail.com

Please email me buffynov12@aol.com

hi im eleonora,gosh its good to know that im not alone duffering thid kind of ill,i just want to know if any of u feel the same as like your not breathing because ur heart pounds too much,yeah i always feel that and i cant sleep at night because i always thougt that i might nit wake up in the morning,and do anyone of you feels a very severe haedache i hope you could help me too thanks

im 24 and im getting palpitations everyday for 5 months ive been to the hospital and to a cardiologist and he did a ecg and a 24 hour monitor he said my heart is fine and gave me a beta blocker to take 1x a day and try to cut off gradually but im scared to stop taking it because every morning when i wake up my heart races i cant live without medicine it feels like im going to have a heart attack every doctor i see tells me its from anxiety but for some reason i dont believe anybody i always think that im going to die from it even when i have arm pain i think im having a heart attack i constantly think about death i really need help know body understands me

Hello.
First off, Why do their always have to be nut Christians on these sites? lol
Second, I have the same problem as a lot of you do, I get upsest about things and start thinking I am dying, I can go from having bad gas to convincing myself I am having a heart attack, I am 26 years old and I worry every day that well my wife is at work I will die and leave the kids alone, And it's getting worse

I am a thirtysix year old husband and father of a four year old little boy. I also have had afear of dying my entire life. I have been thinking about my baby boy having to go through the rest of his life without me. He worships the ground i walk on ,there is nothinglike his daddy. I lost my father when I was 26 to diabetes. I was diagnosed with it last month. Now every symptom I have I think I am dying. Please pray for me.

I've been dealing with panic attacks, for about 6 months now. A month ago I got checked into my local hosptial's physc ward for 5 days because of them, they put me on celexa, which seemed to help but for the passed few days i've been feeling uneasy again, i can't do this again, I'm tired of living my life in fear, and trying to sleep for the entire day because im so afride of the next attack. I've had just about every doctor in my town tell me my heart is just fine, i've had ekg's and everything but even right now i feel like im going to go into cardiac arrest or something. Lets all pray for eachother because it seems like everyone on this site is going through similar problems, god bless everyone, i wish you all, and myself the best.

I've been dealing with panic attacks, for about 6 months now. A month ago I got checked into my local hosptial's physc ward for 5 days because of them, they put me on celexa, which seemed to help but for the passed few days i've been feeling uneasy again, i can't do this again, I'm tired of living my life in fear, and trying to sleep for the entire day because im so afride of the next attack. I've had just about every doctor in my town tell me my heart is just fine, i've had ekg's and everything but even right now i feel like im going to go into cardiac arrest or something. Lets all pray for eachother because it seems like everyone on this site is going through similar problems, god bless everyone, i wish you all, and myself the best.

I am 17 years old, and every day I think I'm dying of some new disease. I have a little lump in my breast which doctors say is a cyst, I always get sharp pains in my head but the cat scan showed nothing, I have bad panic/ anxiety attacks that effect my heart, my kindneys are always hurting,just recently I got the flu and thought I was dying of swine, and now I found a perfectly round little purple bruise on my leg and thought I had skin cancer.
What is my issue? I'm too young to worry everyday of my life if something is going to kill me. And after reading and seeing the documentry on "The Secret" I'm scared shitless because things you think about too much will attract to you. Man if thats true in the negative way, I would be dying from all the diseases in the world.

We all need to stop worrying as if we are in war and every minute our lives are on the brink. When we grow old and gray we are all going to look back and think of what a waste it was that we all spent our moments thinking we were dying.

I need to start living.
We all do.

I have similar problems,heart palpitations,constantly checking on websites for different symptoms,my anxiety is the cause of my stupid acne....It sucks because it takes over your mind.But im really tired of it.I woke up the other day and said to myself that im not dealing with it anymore.if something happens to you there will more than likely be people around to help you.i refuse to go to the doctor because i think its a BIG waste of money.thats pretty funny right? a hypochondriac who wont go to the doctor.anyways i hope everyone else in here has the same epiphany i did at some point.once you realize you CAN control your thoughts then your symptoms seem to vanish.CIAO!

its okay i always think i am going to die too... in strange ways. like if i run in the rain i could slip and fall and then hit my head on the curb and then roll onto the street un conscience and then get hit by a car.... thats a big fear of mine....

Staff,
OMG you sound like me.......if i get a stomach pain i feel like my insides are hardening and i will die shortly..if i get a chest pain im having a heart attack... i cant stop thinking im dying all the time and when i get sick forget about it i go into this emotional roller coaster and i cry everynight thinking i will die or my BF will wake up in the morning and find me dead. I feel im crazy but i dont let anyone see that side of me. the only person who really knows my thoughts is my BF anf he loves me enough to deal with it..i need help too

im 26 n i always think im dying i cant get on buses or trains without avin a panic attack!!! recently my vison as stared to go funny docs say thats anxiety i think its a brain tumour sounds stupid but yea ive suffered 4 2 n half years now and sick and tired of it its not fair on my partner or kids can ney1 help me please???

Oh I am so glad I found this page. I am 26 years old and have convinced myself that I too have heart attacks often. It seems to all begin when I get this dull pain behind my breastbone that radiates around to my shoulder blades and sometimes around to the front of my throat. Wierd I know, but my Doc. says it just anxiety and I work myself up. But it is a real pain I feel and I cant help but wonder why it happens? Why is there pain in my chest and throat? If you go to any website about heart attacks the first thing it says is that if you are having chest pains with any pain in your arm or shoulder to get to an ER immediately. So yes I find that cause for concern. I also get dizzy all the time and feel like someone is squeezing my head. I just think I am destined for a miserable future. I have tried Klonopin, Xanax, Zoloft, Celexa, etc and they all work for short time, but I dont want to have to rely on a drug for the rest of my life. When I lie down for bed at night I will lay and roll around for 3 to 4 house because my brain just wont stop thinking, then i get dizzy, then i think even more about every disease this could possibly be. I have started in this past week a new RX called Vistaril (Hydroxizine Pamoate) 50mg 3 x's day. At first it just knocked me flat and I slept for hours. Now I can tolerate it much better and it does work to calm me down, but if I am having a real attack then it does nothing. Anyway thanks for letting me share my long story! Good luck to all you!

Hi, im 20.
I don't know what i've been having but it sounds alot like heart palpitations, i talked to my doctor about them and he checked my heart, did blood work and everything came back fine. I, as like everyone posting on here, always think im dying. I am sick and tired of it. I just hate feeling so cynical about things all the time. I feel like i think too much and i just want to have a normal young adults life. I want to go out and have fun but i just can't seem to shake the idea that i feel like im dying. I just want some advise, some sort of optimistic influence or even just a friend to talk to who understands what im talking about.

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Hey there I need to talk to someone about what I'm going through...... I've only had sex with two women and I keep thinking I have hiv I already got tested and I was clean but the nurse said I should come back in july just to make sure. I'm well. I know I'm fine but I keep thinking I'm going to get aids bwcause of my symptoms which are due to my stomach problems and I keep having diahrrea on and off and constant headaches and I have a soar through .... everybody I tell say I'm fine but I just can't stop thinking about it ...I've never been like this I just recently moved and left friends and a good job and great school behind and been streesed ..... I've never had chest pains but when I was to fly to ny for the first time over a year beacause of work I got very nervous and the morning of my flight. I think I had chest pains which lasted for three days ... everytime I took a brath my chest or thought would hurt....everytime I hear the word aids or hiv my heart would begin to race I'm always shaking because I'm nervous and I keep seeing white dots in my vision which to my knowledge I think are blood problems which I never had ....a few months ago my stomach or appendex hurt foe a wek and I kept thinking my appendiz would burst and I kept thinking I had amoebic dyssentry because of my diarrea.... I'm very scared and I don't want to go to the doctors becaues I don't what to say and I also feel dizzy at times espiciallyyy when I get up quickly......I just turned 17 and I need help....I'm very scared to tell my mom beacayse I don't want her to worry.....if someone can please reply and ill give you a way to contact me....I'm not sure if I'm a hypo so I need your help ...thanks

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I have suffered with the hypo since I was about 10 yrs old. I remember watching Robocop 2 (?) when I was young and when the boy, who's name I can't remember, died slowly after being shot I went into a panic and for three days slept with my hand over my heart, just to make sure it was beating...that is where it all began. Today, at 28, I have convinced myself I have lung cancer, stomach ulcers, leukemia, malignant melanoma, strokes, heart attacks, brain tumors which I am convinced sometimes are the reason for my erratic hypo fears. I worry constantly and I really never am completely worry free. I am sick of the shit it brings and the constant mental turmoil it causes. I don't attempt to better my personal life due to the fear of dying before finishing anything. Yeah folks, I need therapy.

Hey. I'm 17 yrs old. I never knew there was so many people going through all the anxiety I have. Well it started back when I was 14. I smoked some laced weed and my heart started racing to where i could hear it and see it beating out of my chest. I have had panic attacks often since then. When I was 15 I got staff infection in my lungs and ended up in the hospital for 2 1/2 months. I almost died and ever since I have stress and panick attacks all the time. I started drinking, poppin pills(mostly xanax), and smoking alot. All that did was make everything worse.
I always feel like I'm dying or something is wrong with me. Plus I have Tachycardia( which is like heart palpitations). I am always holding my hand on my heart thinking I'm gonna die. It always feels hard to breathe so I always take lots of deep breaths which makes me hyperventalate. For some reason I am always burping too. I think from all the deep breaths i take.
Anyways... I know I am a hypochondriac and I have problems. I try to cope with things best I can though.
Just know that drugs and alcohol are not the answer. It only makes the anxiety and stress worse in the end. It has taken me 3 yrs to figure this out. The best things to do are just eat healthy, get sleep, and keep your mind distracted.
God Bless

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My fiancé and i just had a talk about this.. wondering mind crap. Not only you feel like your gonna die but the other elements that surrounds the whole thing like worrying about other close people kicking the bucket, thinking way too elaborately and vividly about every thing poss. i call it the curse of the smart.every intelligent person i know has the same problem. i don't feel alone i just want to live what i perceive as a normal life or find a way to cope. I'm 26 and I'm starting a new career, a new school and I'm far away from my family in a new place. Maybe that may cause anxiety but too the point where my headaches are stopping me from progressing I've gone to the doctors they found nothing wrong and they tyred a stump, pills and injections but they still come back. i even seen a shrink: She told me to think about nothing related to nothing.. The hell is that supposed to mean?? quite frankly I'm at a loss. i don't know what to do.. I've been past my threshold with this curse. its even gotten so bad the moment i step foot outside my front door my body tenses up, my stomach starts to cramp, my back cramps and the thoughts start to play.. also I've gone through the whole thinking i had cancer, HIV and everything in the book, but every one tells me its in my head and /or i need to occupy my time... If i fill anymore of my time i will never sleep. i don't know, i just wish some one can help me.

Omg it's so amazing to know there is other peoplke out there that feel this way! I am 21, and I am afraid of everything but dying but am absolutely convinced I am dying at all times. I am also absolutely convinced that the worst things that could possibly happen in any given situation will happen. I feel like I don't even have a life anymore because I am so afraid to live it, I may as well be dead. I have loads of different anxiety disorders and I maintain myself well in public settings but on the inside I am going crazy with fear. It's exhausting just to live day to day life when you're this stressed and scared all the time. I am so convinced I am dying that I have a notebook with funeral plans written out and a savings account for funeral costs so it doesn't put my family in debt.

It's refreshing, yet saddening at the same time, to know that people feel the same way I do. I've been a hypochondriac since I was about 4... My grandma said that standing next to the microwave causes cancer and, even though I didn't know what it was, I was afraid I had it. Every summer growing up I though I had cancer, tumors growing in my body. I would feel the "tumors" in my body and I was convinced I was going to die before my 16th birthday. I'm 24 now. I had a lot of tragedies in my family last year which seems to have made my problem much worse. I can't be alone, I think I'm going to die. I get dizzy, chest pains... I always think I have breast cancer or uterine cancer, a brain tumor, having a heart attack.. you name it, I think I've got it. It's to the point that I can't even live anymore. I don't go out, I don't do anything. I hate it. My life is miserable. And by the time I'll be ok, I'm afraid I really will have these problems. I'm young and should be healthy right now, there's no reason I should feel these things. It's so utterly frustrating.

Wow, I cant believe there are people going through the same thing as me. I'm 16 years old and have been suffering 'panic attacks/heart palpatations' for about 2 1/2 years now. The reason I put quotations around those words are because I still dont believe thats what they are. Although I have had EKG's, an echocardiogram & a heart monitor done by the best hospital in the world (Childrens Hospital in Boston) I feel as though they didnt catch when my heart was really acting up or they missed something. In Late April of this year I suffered a severe 'anxiety attack'. I was playing softball about 45 minutes from home when my heart started not beating fast, but it seemed slow. Of course I got nervous and asked to be taken out of the game. (Im the only pitcher on my team). I called my mom freaking out. One of my coaches offered to give me a ride home. On that ride home is when my hands started going numb. I freaked out, screamed, cried, called my mom & said I was going to die & everything. I even pictured my funeral! I was so scared to be away from my mom & family thinking I was never going to see them again & that I was dying of a heart attack. My coach called 911, they took me in an ambulance to a local hospital where I waited for an hour and a half, feeling like i was going to drop dead, only for them to tell me i was hyperventalating from an anxiety attack! They did ONE EKG & had someone talk to me & thats how they diagnosed me! I was pissed off to say the least! I was SO sick of hearing I had ANXIETY. I cried at the mere SOUND of that word because I have heard it so many times before! Now to this day I'm scared to do anything. I'm scared to be away from my family. I ALWAYS feel sick or feel like im going to die. When I feel sick I keep taking my temperature to make sure it doesnt go below 95. Im in my junior year of High School & it's only been a month & I've already missed 5 days of school including today! Im going to the doctors (of course) because I have a tight headache & when I blew my nose this morning it was a little bloody so I immediatly thought I have a brain tumor or something. Its ridiculous. I WANT to live a normal life, its just, I cant. I feel bad for my mom too because shes always stressed out about me missing school & always feeling sick. She even will cry sometimes. She's done everything for me the past couple of years & I couldnt thank her enough. It's just every time I dont feel good I'm like 'this is different, im going to die, this isnt safe, i need to go to the doctors.' & I know it must be annoying to hear that every morning its just how I am though. I want to live a long healthy life without all this worrying and worrying others around me. Thanks for taking the time to read this & if you have any advice or stories that relate to mine pleasee tell me about them! I need all the help & comfort I can get from others who are going through the same thing. Thank You!!!!!!

PS. I haven't tried any anxiety pills because I'm scared they'll make me depressed & I dont want to spend my life depending on a pill to keep me going :(

Oh my God this is 3oclock in the night . i just had a panic attack and i got up and start reading all these people's comments felt better and i too always think that i am dying

i never post on any online forums or blogs, but people sharing on this one has been so comforting i couldn't help... As like many others, been a hypo off and on as long as i can remember. The worst times are ussually when i'm the least busy/ distracted or just have too much time alone. When with friends, fmaily, or looking to the future everything is much better, but if i feel alone it flares up, spiraling out of control to the point where it is very devastating to almost all aspects of my life. My greatest fears are most of the standard ones: tumors, ms, hiv/aids, stds... to name the most common ones. some list of symptoms shows up somewhere (show, magazine, family or friend gets sick) and then it starts... experience a symptom, worry/obsess over it constantly, increased anxiety, panic attacks, more constant checking/ obsessing over a symptom until i think im gonna go crazy or just give myself whatever it is by thinkin gtoo much abotu it. Its a vicious cycle. The only thing that helps me is distract myself with either friends, fmaily, shows, work/ school to the point where im too tired/ stop caring/ dont have time to think about it. Theres ussually a middle ground where i start to temporarily forget about obsessing (but then relapse), and then eventually (at least it has been the case in the past) i get past that threshold and im too caught up with my life for the most part. I don't think any of us will be able to totally stop bein a lil hypochondriac here and there, but I know we can get much better to the point where it doesnt affect our lives at all. i think hypos all really love life so much that they are scared to death to lose it. Also, ive noticed that with myself and others, hypos are very empathetic people and when they here about one person having some painful/ horrible condition, they naturally put themselves in that person's shoes and then thats when the anxiety/ obsessing over "symptoms" occur- its a trap thats hard to get out of. But hey, what doesn't kill u makes u stronger, right? So go try and distract urselves, show to urself that all this stuff is in ur head, and then work from there. I mean we all are gonna die sooner or later- every single person on this planet now will be dead in 150 yrs. hope this helps! Thanks again to everyone who has posted and continues to post!

I have been leaving with pain for the past 18 years. Woke up every morning with different complains. Sometimes, I think something serious is happenning to me. I have seen a lot of Doctors, but none has an answer to my problem. There have been many occassion which I did not think i will witness,but they always come and gone and I am still arround. The sicknes does not put me down so my family does not take me serious whenever i complained with sickness. My body is giving me wrong signal. I wish one day I will wake up one morning with no pain. Life will begin from there. Pain is something nobody should ever go through.

I never comment on these sites but just had to this time. You are all talking about my life!! I am 44 and have been going thru this for as long as I can remember. It's comforting to know there are others out there who understand! There are very few -- maybe two or three -- people in my life who I've told about my true feelings of my daily fear that I'm dying. My own husband doesn't even know. I keep everything inside while I put up a really good front and appear to live a 'normal' life. Inside I am terrified pretty much daily that there is something wrong with me that I'm going to die from today. There have been brief periods where it's less intense but it's always there. It's an awful way to live and it makes me sad to think that I will probably spend my entire life this way. God help all of us find a way to deal with this and live a happier life.

Like the previous poster I too rarely respond to these sort of threads and I very rarely talk about my problems except with my father. Im 23 and have horrible anxiety but my father does also and he has pretty much overcome his problems so going over to his house and talking with him is one of the best things to calm me down. I could continue the chain here of posting my past negative experiences such as the pointless trips to the er thinking im having a heart attack or the hyperventalating from me getting to worked up however I thought id instead share with you all some of the things that i have found to help me.

For one ive seen my regular doctor about these and he is very familuar with my problems also being my fathers doctor. He has put me on 50mg of Zoloft daily and 50mg Toprol XL which is a beta blocker. The medication helps fairly well. Another few things that seem to help is just walking outside and walking around, where I live im surrounded by beautiful woods and its refreshing to get some fresh air and clear my mind. Keeping yourself busy is another very useful tool, I have tons of hobbies to indulge in like working on cars and my dirtbikes, i love tinkering with computers, online games, loving pets that always want my attention, yard work just anything to keep my mind busy. I often find that the hardest time of the day is when its time to go to sleep when you are lying in bed and have all that time to think which leads me to my next bit of advice. The single most powerful tool I use to battle my anxiety is having good friends and family around that understand what im feeling. My girlfriend is very good with me, when ever i start getting worked up she sits with me and talks me through it calming me down. It really helps at night to have someone there with you to ease your mind someone that you can depend on.

I hope some of this advice helps you all its nice to know that there are many others out there that understand the torture I go through every day. If you ever wanna talk feel free to messege me on yahoo (jokah6) or email me at (dezz.de.kae@gmail.com)

I Also wanted to add a good exercise if you are like me and you are bad about hyperventalating when you get to worked up. When you start breathing to fast and get the cold sweats and racing heart clear your mind and take a deep breath in through your nose hold it and count to 10 in your head then slowly exhale. Repeat this over and over only concentrating on counting and your breathing. This is also a good way to practice meditating which is another good tool against anxiety for me. =)