| shityeah |
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As a runner getting miles in each day has always been some what of a stress relief. Lately it hasn't been enough. Have any of you had problems with anxiety? What did you feel symptom related? |
| milesomiles |
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I recently had a visit to the emergency room for palpitations and anxiety. All of a sudden I would be overcome with warmness and tingling in my chest, thinking I was having a heart attack. Knock the mileage down a bit, make sure you are eating RIGHT (not just enough) and hydrating very well, and getting more than enough rest. |
| Mrs. Masterbooner |
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I have had in the past year or two what I believe are brief panic attacks: the feeling of light-headedness, like I'm going to pass out, either shortly before or after a stressful moment in which I cannot stop to calm down, i.e. while driving on the interstate or during a musical performance. It only lasts a second or two, but not a great feeling. Sometimes I wonder if my low-ish blood pressure has anything to do with it, but I've had low b.p. all my life and these just started happening. Dunno - doesn't happen often enough for me to be really concerned about it. |
| fgfg |
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I'm clinically diagnosed as a wuzz |
| IcanRelate |
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I was diagnosed with extremely high anxiety, borderline bi-polar. Symptoms range from feeling okay one minute, and within an hour I can be hit with a wave of depression and anxiety I can't even describe. Or the waves can be days apart. I also have terrible insomnia. Getting over 2-3 hours of sleep a night is very challenging, branching out into days without sleeping. 7 or 8 and I feel like I'm on top of the world. Having an extremely short fuse is another symptom. I feel like I'm ready to snap on anybody at any second of the day for the most minuscule things. They put me on meds, but they don't work. The meds.........they do nothing! If you are struggling with this then I highly recommend seeing somebody about it. Maybe they can make your life suck about 2% less. Sincerely good luck |
| Anxious Asthmatic? |
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I recently was diagnosed at 40 with anxiety last summer during a hot summer day run when I thought I was having a heart attack. 2 days in the hospital later, and after a stress test, the docs said my heart was fine. I had been running 40 mpw at 8:30 pace and had 50 pulse so I thought I would be okay. What is weird is that I have been shot at and more in the line of work and have been cool as a cucumber, but now that I am older and my body is changing, a disruption of breathing which came with the extreme heat and humidity, and the newly diagnosed GERDS that was part of this mess, was enough to produce a panic response. Normally I'm ice, but now I carry an Albuterol inhaler, just in case. I'm going up to 15,000 feet for a few weeks beginning next week and I have my doubts about keeping the panic under control. Real anxiety is a bi*ch and weird. Would have never in a million years imagined it would happen to me. |
| Mayonnaise on Vaseline |
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Try GABA supplements |
| suckful issues |
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I have been experiencing bad anxiety for about 2 months. My life is good but I am constantly on edge. I run daily, sleep 9 hours every night, and take vitamins. Nothing helps so I just deal with it because I don't want to take meds. I don't think I'm bi-polar, but I might have depression though I would not like to admit that. |
| anxiety as a crutch |
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I don't need a doctor to tell me I have anxiety issues, I know it. You need to perceive and embrace your anxiety as a positive influence in your life. My anxiety gets me out the door to run every morning, causes me to work harder and excel in my chosen career, multi-task in my daily life to achieve more with less time AND keeps me out of trouble. Basically, my anxiety drives and fuels my daily accomplishments. I'd be a lazy sack of sh*% without it. Type A, all the way. |
| kelinschatable |
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It's very common. It doesn't need to be medicated except in rare cases. I was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, but then i was fine as soon as I stopped taking medications (Zoloft) and ran more. |
| tomtom |
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Anxiety, anxiety. It's very easy to cure, but only if you evade normal medicine at all cost. MD's will always put you on some kind of SSRI or other addictive drugs (they are just legal narcotics but with much more serious side effects than plain weed). In my experience in the field of alternative medicine I had countless people with anxiety problem, they asked me for help - and I helped them. Normal doctors treated them for YEARS using expensive drugs with lots of side effects, some people got addicted to them and couldn't stop, so I was unable to help them. OK, how to get rid of anxiety? Easy. It's ALWAYS caused by some other health problems, sucha s: - lead poisoning. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917196/ even mild lead poisoning will cause panic attacks, people with blood lead above 2,1 had 5 times more panic attacks than people with blood lead below 0,7. It's very easy to get blood lead above 10, if you live in polluted region or smoke. - magnesium deficiency, once you deplete this mineral (easy with running and sweating), your resistance to stress will drop to the ground - zinc deficiency, same as for magnesium. Both zinc and magnesium deficieny are very common problems, especially for people who run alot and sweat / burn more of them. - vitamin D deficiency, connection between low vitamin D levels and mood disorders is well established - choline deficiency, people with low levels of blood choline had much more panic attacks and generally were more prone to anxiety. Long distance runners need much more choline than common Joe. - omega 3 deficiency, just google it There are more possible causes, but ones mentioned above are most common. Normal medicine very rarely try to adress these problems, as fixing them is generally very cheap and can get rid of the problem completely, while putting someone on SSRI sometimes means years of income (and possible more profit from side effects) sorry for my English, it's not my 1st language and it's very late here, but I believe my post may help. Feel free to ask for more about vitamins or for citations. |
| tomtom |
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ugh, can't edit post I forgot to add, usually with my treatment people get rid of anxiety within weeks. I had patients who were unable to leave their houses for years because of panic attacks, within weeks they were completely OK, without single panic attack. and I forgot to add one very, very common cause of anxiety - thyroid problems. In my experience it's either undiagnosed or unproperly treated thyroid disease, you can read more about it at "stop thyroid madness" website. It's very rare thing to meet properly treated thyroid patient nowadays. |