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Strange physical symptoms - internal burning sensation

Strange physical symptoms - internal burning sensation

Hi all,

I am new to the forum and this is my first post. I am currently experiencing extreme anxiety and so far the medical profession has been unable to help. I have now been off work for 5 months and feel like my life has come crashing down around me. I welcome any advice however also wanted to ask if anyone else experiences the same physical sensations that i do as i am not convinced they are part of anxiety. I get very strange head symptoms, hard to describe, but includes an internal burning sensation, head and face, neck, shoulders, arms, sometimes entire body. It is extremely difficult to handle and quite torturous. I also experience other weird head symptoms - like a tight band around my head, sometimes like a lifting sensation from the top of my head, weird face sensations, not quite prickling, not quite pins and needles, but those would be the closest i can come to describing it. Does anyone else experience these things? I am at my wits end with the severity of my symptoms - all of them, not just the ones mentioned- and wonder if anyone ever actually recovers from extreme anxiety and is able to function and live some semblance of a normal life! At the moment it seems i am going round in circles with the MH profession and getting nowhere.

Any help greatly appreciated.

And thank you for reading.

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Thanks @Appleblossom ,

From the number of people who have said they have simiar symptoms, maybe it is associated with the anxiety, rather than my concerns with sodium, or maybe for me its both, im not sure. I would still be more comfortable if any meds i take dont contain sodium, that way if my anxiety/related symptoms are really bad, i cant blame it on that and know i need to attend to it from a MI perspective.

Yes it would be nice to find a more sympathetic doctor. Although mine can appear compassionate at times, i feel like its put on, and a lot of the time, she's just plain scary! Haha. Especially if i bring up the sodium thing, or question her, or dont do exactly what she wants! Shes a hard woman! Its important to find the balance i guess isnt it. A gp that is genuinely caring, compassionate, interested in and proactive about your well being, but that can be firm when necessary, but without being harsh or scary! I dont have that at the moment. But yes, i need to stick where i am for now, but maybe in the future look around for a gp that is better suited to me.

Thanks for your response @Appleblossom , its been great to have all this support!

Take care ☺

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I know i have thanked you all for your support in individual replies, but i just wanted to thank you all who have replied to my messages again, it has meant so much to be able to come in this forum and openly share and receive encouragement, advice, feedback etc from people who have been there and understand. Thank you so much @Meowmy @Appleblossom @Shaz51 @outlander @outlander !

I really appreciate your help and support!

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your very welcome @Doglover im glad that our support has been helpful to you

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@Doglover, we are here for you as you are here for us my friend

going forward together each and every day @Doglover , @outlander

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Thanks @outlander, it sure has!

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Thanks so much @Shaz51, it means so much!

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I have another question for my new found friends that have already offered me so much support.

@Shaz51 @outlander @Meowmy @Appleblossom @Jaz5 @Zoe7

For those of you who have experienced the same sort of symptoms that i outlined earlier, and for those who havnt but have experienced severe anxiety, i am keen to know what your experience of anxiety was before it was controlled. So before ur anxiety was stabilised (by meds or otherwise) and was basically untreated, did you experience the symptoms associated with anxiety - whatever they were for you - nausea, dry mouth, racing thoughts, fear, physical head/body sensations, anxiety itsel etc - intermittently, or constantly? Did the symptoms come and go, or when you were untreated, were the symptoms constant, every waking moment? I am keen to know as mine are every waking moment, the moment i wake up in the morning they are there, in fact its usually the symptoms that wake me up, and they dont go away until sleep meds kick in. Even then i am often woken in the night with the symptoms. Is this a normal experience for untreated/uncontrolled anxiety? Or did you find that the symptoms would come and go?

Thanks again!

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Yes i experienced alot of symptoms @Doglover i still do but not as much since ive been on medications and been working on better ways to cope with my anxiety rather than run around like a headless chook.

It use to be every waking moment, my sleep was worse and sometimes aleep was no reprieve either as usually i would wake in an anxious sweat. I get periods of time where my anxiety rules the roost such as aniversaries or if i come across triggers but if I catch it early and try to help myself i can control it to an extent. I dont think medications will manage everything. They might help once you find the right doses etc but it also takes time and practice in working out which coping strategies help you the most in reducing your anxiety even further

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Dry mouth def related to dose of neuroleptics.

@Doglover

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@Meowmy we do live in a world of potential threats and stressors. I think our minds find all of these throughout each day. I've found with my anxiety or depression that there's always key factors which trigger the episode off. Quite often it involved thinking/perceiving I'd be faced/confronted with potential threats/stressors... all based around fear basically... or I would be doing something which was going against the grain...
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