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[serene]

It's *amazing* to me how much energy I have now that I don't think I might be dying.

Off to the garden store, then to do some gardening with choirboypuppy, then to kick some ass at work. Have a lovely day.

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[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Welcome back to life.

Dying????

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Slight exaggeration. I have been having alarming neurological symptoms for a couplefew weeks, and combined with having a thyroid tumor and the increase in my heart palpitations, I was worried.

But the EKG was fine, my doctor is confident I'm not having heart trouble, and he is 90% sure what I'm experiencing are anxiety attacks.

Still, I'm gonna go get more tests done. Getting more tests done is helping me feel like I'm doing something to improve my situation, and that makes me feel less freaked.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Eek. I am glad the tests you had had good results, and I hope the other tests do too.

Anxiety attacks aren't any fun, though. I hope those get resolved too.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Funny how that works, even at a low level. I didn't even realize I was fretting about this week's colonoscopy until I found myself digging out my will and DNR order - and when it was all done and I got an "all clear" from the doctor, I was practically euphoric.

Of course, some of that might have been the drugs. (-:

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes you can very physically feel the level of stress going down, down, down, and level of wellbeing going up or spreading out all over.

I once got myself worked up enough over panic attacks to think I was having a heart attack and go to the hospital -- running up some big bills that way definitely rubbed my nose in the idea that I should never let work get to me like that again.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm not 100% convinced that my illness is completely anxiety-based, but I am calmed enough by my good test results that I can function. I was close to the breaking point, and was getting to the point where I didn't want to be left alone at night for fear I would die in my sleep.

(And even if it *is* organic in origin, well hell, what can it hurt to try to reduce my stress and continue treating myself well, is the way I figure it.)