PLEASE HELP ME!!!! ANXIETY???

[Catlover2503]

Hi, I'm 16, average weight and height and am a healthy person. About a month ago, I was diagnosed with vertigo after getting dizziness when I sat down and closed my eyes but was not convinced. I got really anxious and worked up about it and spent days in my room crying because I thought it was something more serious. It seemed to calm down a bit but a few weeks ago, I was on holiday and the symptom came back and I got really anxious again and ever since then I wake up anxious and I can't stop thinking about symptoms and if it could be a brain tumour. When I got back off holiday, I had terrible stomach upsets and pains, tingling in my hands and feet. I then had blood tests and they came back clear. A week ago, I started getting weird head sensations in the right side of my head, mostly at the back. It will not go away, there's no pain but it feels like someone is appealing pressure there. I am so scared, I've got something wrong with me, I can't cope with that. I feel like I'm going insane, I used to be such a happy person, now I'm miserable, constantly snapping at people and horribly anxious. Is this down to anxiety or something more serious. I seriously need your help because I don't know how much longer I can take this? :(

[CP3kids]

My pleasure.  I want to see all people who are ill get better, regardless of the type of illness.  Good luck, and please come back and keep us posted!

[Catlover2503]

Hey! Thank you so much for your response. I'm so relieved that someone else think it's anxiety. I just want to get better, I'm brining myself and everyone around me down. I have been pressurising my mum and dad to take me to the docs but they think I'm being silly and tell me to stop otherwise I'll end up going mental. Thank you so much for the response. It has made be feel a lot better. I've got a doctors appointment again in December and am going to explain the symptoms to him. I was just so scared its brain related, like I work myself up and end up in tears. I really want an MRI done to stop my worrying but then again I'd just be even more anxious because id presume the worst. I'm going to see what the doc says. Thanks for your help!!

[CP3kids]

It does indeed sound like anxiety.  Did no MDs prescribe you anything?  Given that your tests have been negative for anything more severe, I would assume that they would have provided you with information at best on anxiety, and some treatment.   I'd say there is one more test that needs to be done, and that is an MRI of your head.  Once that rules out anything organic, then they truly need to help you with some anti-anxiety medication like Paxil (paroxetine is the generic name) or Prozac (fluoxetine is generic name), or Celexa (citalopram is generic name) or even Lexapro (escitalopram is generic name).  Those are long acting anti-anxiety or anti0depressant medications.  In addition to that, they should also give you a short term supply of some rapid acting anti-anxiety medication like Xanax, or Valium, or Ativan.  Please keep pressuring your parents to get you treated for this as it can be quite the process in finding which one will work for you.  Also, because most of those medications take about 2-4 weeks to get in your system good, you need to have the rapid acting ones in the interim to calm you down.  I wish you luck with treatment!