Hi just posting here looking for some advice or reassurance, I suffer with health aniexty so I’m actually worried to go to a doctor.
so it started a week and a half ago I started feeling very lightheaded only when I would walk outside and blurry vision, I have a 1 year old who won’t sleep so I’m very sleep deprivated, I am also very busy all the time and have 2 older children at school who also do lots of out of school clubs during the week and at weekends, I am a stay at home mum who does own my small business but I have had to completely slow that down the past few months because something had to give somewhere and my husband works so much so the house work and looking after the kids and taking the kids everywhere 99.9% of the time is all down to me. I’ve been under a lot of stress since my daughter’s birth a year ago, I had a 6 year age gap between my 2nd baby and my 1 year old and my oldest child is 9. She was planned but I suffered with mental health problems during my pregnancy, had severe morning sickness the entire 9 months and had a very difficult birth and a lot of blood loss and I didn’t rest properly at all, who can when you are on your 3rd child but I was running around doing everything because no one helped. I also started suffering with postpartum depression after the birth it was just a very hard time. I think this time around it has really took its toll on me having a newborn and 2 older children more than I imagined, I had my first 2 children 22 months apart and don’t remember it ever being this difficult. Anyway in August I felt lightheaded and went to the doctor who found out I have a slight iron deficiency anemia and sligh vitamin d deficiency. For the past few months I have regularly been taking the iron tablets but haven’t been taking the vitamin d, I am a Muslim woman who wears a scarf so I most often do have low vitamin d so as I’m not taking it it probably has got a lot worse now.
i started a week and a half ago feeling very light headed and blurred vision, as I said I am under so much stress, exhaustion and sleep deprived as the baby has been sleeping awfully for months now, she also won’t be put down at all during the day so on top of being sleep deprived I’m exhausted on top of everything else I’m doing. I was putting the lightheaded and blurry vision down to this and then yesterday I woke up with a buzzy feeling in my finger tips and I’ve never had this before, never in my life have I had a panic attack but I started hyperventilating and my heart started racing and I felt like this feeling was going over my entire body and felt like I was going to faint, it passed after about 30 minutes but it scared me so much, all day I continued to have this buzzy feeling in my hands it almost feels like I’ve touched something electric instead of pins and needles, I forced myself to take some rest because I’m so exhausted and started feeling better, only I woke up at 11.43 last night with the baby with the buzzy feeling still in my fingers and it sent me into the worst panic attack ever, I had to get up and come downstairs and my entire body was shaking and I couldn’t control it, my heart was racing so fast and I felt dizzy and like this buzzy feeling was all up my arms and in my legs, I was shaking and couldn’t stop it for over 1 hour and eventually started to calm down and after I felt very lightheaded, it did revenraully calm myself down but woke up this morning aching all over my body and aching in my chest as if I’ve pulled loads of muscles. I am genuinely very scared as it was such a bad panic attack, I still have this buzzy feeling in my hands today that when I’m busy I forget about but when I started focusing on it I end up in a. Panic attack, could this really all be down to sleep deprivation, stress and exhaustion? I am really scared and don’t want to have another panic attack like that ever again it was so scary and awful