If you suffer with anxiety would you mind sharing the physical symptoms you've experienced please?

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I feel really alone at the moment as I'm really struggling.
Mine is healthy anxiety but becomes more general when I'm stuck in a loop.

I've spent the last few weeks convinced I have pancreatic, bowel or ovarian cancer because of stomach issues, pain and bloating, horribly heavy and painful periods, fatigue, thinning hair, dry skin, brain fog...

My doctor suggested peri menopause - I'm 41 - and I've had a first blood test for it but all came back normal. I've got another booked for 6 weeks time.

I've had my C125 checked, a full blood count done all normal.

I had a scan earlier in the week and although she couldn't see everything due to loops of bowel, she said what she could see was fine but for results to still contact my GP if I didn't hear. Which has set off a new spiral because I am now worrying about why she said that when she told me it was fine.
The scan looked at my lower abdomen and ovaries but as far as I know not pancreas or gallbladder or liver etc and was very very quick.

So naturally I'm still worrying that there's something going on with other organs.

Rationally I know this is my anxiety talking because I'm flipping from one thing to the next then back to the next. I'm on sertraline but I'm not getting on with it as well this time, not sleeping at all, so going to ask to switch on my next review.

I thought if people shared the physical symptoms they've had I'd recognise mine and it will help me rationalise and calm down.

I realise I sound unhinged - it's an exhausting way to live.

10-14 days on sertraline is when the side effects are at their strongest.

keep going and they begin to lessen everyday from now on. You'll feel right as rain in no time

I was on sertraline for 3 months a couple of years ago now, then with advice from
a French pharmacist friend came off them and onto valerian which is what Kalms
are.
It made a huge difference, two at night about an hour before bed, reduced the racing heart and panicky feeling, meant I didn’t wake anxious and reaching for the sertraline.
Then one in the morning, midday, early evening maybe.
They are natural herbs so no danger of being addicted to them.
Mostly my symptoms were/are panicky, cannot breathe, light headed, feeling faint,
unable to eat anything solid, most awful stomach ache, painful, constipation (yes I know, holding it in) and the ghastly feeling when I was out that I was floating and couldn’t feel the pavement.
I wish you and all of us here better times in good health.

Thank you all so much. I’ll keep plodding on with the sertraline.
Ive felt better this morning but then the pain came back - it’s below my left rib and sort of a bit towards the centre which is making me worry about my pancreas and constantly feeding the anxiety.
im trying to stay very busy and distracted but the intrusive thoughts keep creeping in. I’m so tired of it.

and I’m so sorry to everyone else going through the same, when you look through the replies it’s incredible how it can cause so many physical symptoms.

When it's at its worst I have a fast heart rate, sweating, dizziness, nausea, diarrhoea, headache, pain in my jaw, insomnia, general aches and pains.

those of you who get stomach pain where do you usually feel it like, high up, lower etc

this thread is actually so reassuring and helping me to rationalise

Sounds muscular. I had similar and it was something called Costochondritis. Never did work out what caused it.

I hadn’t considered it might be muscular, obviously my go to is to jump to the worst possible conclusion 🙈

My go to is if I have a glass of wine (which is a form of muscle relaxant) and it goes then it’s muscular. Try taking some ibuprofen and see if it helps.

Thanks @TPJB

Tight chest and breathlessness
Sense of weight on chest
Knot in my stomach and nausea
Stomach aches
Upset stomach and diarrhoea
Headaches and neck pain
Hot and cold sweats