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[Camper71]

I've had this too a lot this year combined with episodes of the most awful depression I've ever had. Very difficult to manage. I find mindfulness helps. I've also referred myself to talking therapies. Have had assessment appointment. Waiting list for CBT is 4 months. They want me to do a course first. I've slso bought a book on CBT from Amazon by an American psychologist. It's a 7 week course workbook. Looks quite good. I'm trying to go for as many walks as I can I find it helps too.

[CLKD]

Welcome Camper71

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Well N/M I like you have had the ectopic beats since my forties now in my fifties. And they are the worse things for me I e had monitors on and ecgs just caught ectopic heart beats not concerned. It is awful though and you have my full sympathy. Big hugs xxxx

[AgathaC]

Good morning all. Today is an example of an “intrusive thoughts” day for me. I had an okay night - hot and sweaty and feeling out of sorts at about 2am but did manage to sleep again by 3am. Awoke at 5.30am with that “I'm about to take an exam/get some test results” feeling. Sicky and nauseous and anxious. Within half an hour I'm on people dying, health anxiety, full on panic. FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON other than this is just one of those days, obviously. I've got so much to do but I can spend ages fretting about “what ifs”. No drugs of any kind for me. Just distraction and walking and my anxiety books.

[AgathaC]

P.S. I can recommend some books but not sure if I'm allowed to. They are CBT based and my favourite concentrates on health anxiety (which is my specialism  ).

[Roseneath]

Do you think it is to do with the time of year ladies/lack of sunlight etc. I am so up and down. Example: Following trip to GPs in tears last week and being reassured I did not have MS/Parkinsons/compulsive swallowing disorder I simply have anxiety! I had a good day (well a good job for nut job menopausal me). I went for a jog, cooked a nice dinner, faked it with family well and then slept for 8 hours with only one toilet/clock check trip. Thought about swallowing maybe twice but managed to unthink it. Great, maybe the old me (i.e the me I knew from 6 years ago. How I LOVED that old, carefree me).Things will get better. Life is.....if not good maybe OK.

Then TODAY ladies. Woke up and for maybe 5 seconds feel peaceful. Then BAM in the anxiety creeps. My left leg feels a bit stiff...worry...so I try and clean my teeth with my left hand (???nut job) just to see if it shakes....it does a little...worry...so I pretend I need something from the dining room and go in there and so some sit ups/stretches to see if my muscles are shaking badly....(they are) because now I am back to square one. I have some terrible neurological illness, the GP was wrong, I 'll maybe have a year left with the kids and will have to tell them., Queue morning spent in an internal blur of anxiety no matter how many CBT breathing exercises I (rather obsessively ) do when the family aren't around.   Welcome to my start to 2019!  The GP did say something that I do believe may be true. He said ' you are not young anymore. I am not saying you are old. But you cannot expect your body to function in the same way it did 20 years ago. '     Hmmmm.  I'm  48.  We are fed so many (phoney) images of celebs and stars with the bodies/flexibility of 20 years olds.  Maybe that is the problem. The new me will not have the internal workings of the 30 something me.   I just don't know (or won't embrace) the ' new wonky me' .

[Roseneath]

Birdy. I can't find a GP that will test my hormones ( I have asked about 8 to date!). They say it is not NHS policy (in Scotland maybe) as they can fluctuate so wildly by the hour/day that an individual reading would be meaningless. They all say the same thing. That is why I think things like HRT without hormone testing is just a shot in the dark (I was put on Ellestre Duet for anxiety and it made it much much worse, came off it after 4 weeks as felt I was going mad. At least now off the HRT I can 'see' that I am not mad, just anxious.  I feel like the health anxiety has got worse over time; from occasional to on and off to ever present. Have tried everything on offer except ADs.

[CLKD]

They are correct about blood tests, reliably unreliable  .  My Gynae goes on symptoms.  My GP is on the ball, fortunately.

Your left arm should shake if you are right handed  . Also, first thing in the morning we can be a little weak around the whole body.  Until the body gets a shot of sugar.  Also, breathing incorrectly will increase anxiety.  Try singing, once has to breath properly which relaxes the anxiety levels.

[suzysunday]

I can relate to these accounts. I've had many days these last few months when I really thought I would die if the anxiety didn't stop. Pulsating and sweating constantly through night and day, like someone had switched an electric current through me.  It gets very frightening.

[BlueButterfly]

I think hormone testing should be done more often honestly. Yes, they can jump around but maybe a couple tests to get an average would be best. I don't think just going by symptoms alone is the best practice for dealing with hormone problems...too many similarities in symptoms between too high or too low.

And the anxiety is awful! A rescue med for the anxiety can be helpful.