Total breakdown since NYE

[Blumarine]

I’ve been having some muscular issues for 4-5 months. Doctors don’t know what’s wrong and gave me vitamin pills, which aren’t helping. When the new year arrived I was in absolute hysterics, terrified that this is the year I’ll be diagnosed with a terminal disease. Which I won’t be able to cope with, so I’ll have to kill myself - and I don’t want to, I’m scared to die. I’m convinced I won’t make it out of 2024 alive.

oh I am so sorry you feel so.panicky. it is truly horrible but I have learnt that feelings are not facts ! You have no.idea what things will happen this year and your imagination is running wild. Your feelings of fear and dread have taken over that is all and what you feel.is due to.adrenaline and cortisol flooding your system.
If you can try to.take a few slow breaths and wait for the feelings to pass and then think.that 2024 could just as likely be a great year when you shake off your health issues and flourish.
I found a short simple book called ,Panicking about Panic invaluable for tackling these type of panic attacks.
anyway sending a hand hold and hope you feel better soon. x

@Blumarine
How are you feeling now. have you managed to calm down a bit x

Yes I’ve calmed down a bit thanks. My mum has talked me down and said statistically I’m not likely to be seriously ill, and worrying doesn’t help at all. It’s hard not to though!

@Blumarine
Oh that's good. Sounds like a supportive mum there. And I get it sometimes you just get fixated on a particular worry and keep escalating it.
You would fall around laughing at some of the stuff that has kept me awake panicking at night !
Take care x

Oh love, it’s probably all due to stress. The gp couldn’t have been worried and perhaps just gave you the vitamins as a sort of psychological boost.
I’ve currently got heart failure and mouth cancer…last week I had stomach cancer😬

Oh love, it’s probably all due to stress. The gp couldn’t have been worried and perhaps just gave you the vitamins as a sort of psychological boost
I don’t know. They can’t find anything wrong with me other than mild deficiencies of iron and vitamin d. Hence the supplements. But my muscles hurt and they keep twitching and having pins and needles and burning sensations. All over my body, 24/7, for months. In the first few weeks the pain was so bad I was struggling to walk. I’ve never heard of anxiety causing pain that bad.

The doctors aren’t worried. I’m convinced it’s a serious disease that they’ve failed to diagnose. Probably something rare because they don’t recognise the symptoms.

B12 deficiency? Join the facebook group - all your symptoms could be because of this. It often goes alongside vitamin D deficiency too.
Don't believe everything the GP tells you. They don't know much about vitamins unfortunately...

Vitamin B12 Wake Up is the Facebook group.

Seriously, all your symptoms, particularly the pins and needles and burning feelings could be due to B12 deficiency.

Vitamin D Wellness is another excellent Facebook group. The vit D supplements GP's hand out are full of fillers and useless. You need Vit D in a fat soluble soft gel.

I could go on but won't! Just take a look

Don't know if it helps but I have all of these symptoms and definitely do not have a terminal illness. In fact I've had them for years and I live a nice happy life with a good job and two kids. It's just my nerves are a bit dramatic and respond to normal life activities as though I'm injured or unwell - I have a formal diagnosis of fibro but I don't normally call it that because the hardest bit for me is the pins and needles and most people don't think of that with fibro. Don't get me wrong, life isn't perfect, it's often hard, but it's not life limiting. Anxiety and stress absolutely make my symptoms worse - a lot worse and I believe this is common.

I just wanted to reassure you that that things can be normal and don't necessarily mean anything really bad.

Oh my goodness you poor love. I had deficiency in Vitamin D, iron and, B12 and was exhausted, had ridiculous pins and needles, restless leg syndrome etc and I felt something wasn’t right and something similar to you.

I also was low in thyroxine. I take thyroxine every day.

I also take:
magnesium
zinc
vitamin c
a general tablet
vitamin d
ferrodix - iron supplement

and liquid vitamin d and light box

took 2-3 weeks but changed my life

I try to ensure plenty of iron in my diet as well.

sometimes I have stopped and within days feel back to exhausted.

Give your supplements 2/3 weeks to kick in and a daily walk in the light or light box for 30 minutes. I have one on my desk at work (I work with very little natural lighting) and light box on all day.

My levels are all normal now. My symptoms disappeared.

It absolutely can be stress and anxiety. I'm just (barely) out of an episode of horrible back pain between my shoulders. I could barely swallow. All body muscle pain.
All following a horrible end of the year.