New to group, IBS for 4 years
#183910 - 06/06/05 09:01 AM
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zile04
Reged: 06/06/05
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Hi All
I am 27 years old and I have been strugling with IBS & Anxiety Disorder for the past 4 years. My doctor could not tell me what is what at first as I was having these attacks and I felt like I was going to die. I had to come to my own conclusion as to what it was that I have. I even had surgery so they could take a biopsy of my stomack tissue. Of course, nothing was found. Whenever I have attacks I feel like my world is falling apart, I get faint, sweat, sick on both ends...etc. I am sad and no one understands how I feel. I am currently taking Celexa, Wellbutrin, and Protonix. My anxiety brings on attacks and vice versa. I just want to live a normal life and most recently have had urges to start a family. My husband and I just married in January 2004. I am concerned with how I will feel when I am pregnant and how my medicine will affect the growth and heath of my baby. Does anyone have a similar story or advice? My doctor told me that I have an anxiety disorder (which I knew) and I have slight OCD which gets worse under anxiety. Sometimes I panic in a loud restauraunt and once we leave early I just cry and cry. I also gained over 50 pounds since I double my meds about 1 year and 1/2 ago. Losing the weight has been a huge struggle and I feel so uncomfortable in my own skin. I constantly pray that God will heal me of this horrible nightmare.
Kendra
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Hi and welcome to the boards! I hope you will find some useful information and needed support to help you with your situation. You have placed your problems in the right hands, so anything you learn here will just be icing on the cake as it were! Welcome!
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section of the site (the link is to your left). Gut-directed hypnotherapy is tremendously successful not just for IBS but for anxiety and panic as well. Read through the info and if you have any questions come post them on the hypnosis message board here.
Best,
Heather
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Thank you for the advice, I will give it some thought. I have been going to the same doctor since I was in Jr. High so that might give me anxiety. (Of course) But, if the new Doctor knows what he is doing, I might find some comfort in someone who can tell what is going on with my body. Thank you also for the support, it means more than you know.
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wellbutrin, as a general rule, is not recommended for anyone who has anxiety. i know that's exactly why my shrink said he wouldn't ever think of prescribing it for me. it sends alot of people right thru the roof.
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