Lisa please read this, I think it will help you
All of this I am telling you because I lived it... my own experience!!
let me tell you, for your own good STOP listening to all these people sending you to neurologists because you feel pins and needles in your body (one of anxiety's most common symptoms) and telling you doctors probably don't know what a swollen gland is (despite a medical professional looking at it and telling you it's not swollen), honestly.... it's anxiety, and the gland is your mind it;s you focusing too much on it
you've had blood tests and a bunch of medical standard tests to detect any abnormality and they gave you prozac because it's obvious that your biggest problem is nothing more than just anxiety!
stop listening to people on the net, most don't have medical training and are just as hypochondriac and anxious because of google just like you are right now and I used to be thanks to damn google, (I learned my lesson though)
reading your posts makes it so obvious anxiety is eating you alive, you can perceive it just by looking at what you write!!!
I used to think I had spinal stenosis, that is a degenerative condition that makes you dizzy, nauseous, your arms fail, eventually your artery gets blocked and you can end up with arthritis or a stroke!!!
I had ALL THE SYMPTOMS.... joined a support group and all I read was negativity, people moaning, yapping endlessly about how miserable life is, how horrible everything is, how depressing, how useless doctors are!!! while some were truly in bad shape, others just moaned and moaned and moaned and their reference was always crap they'd found on google, not actual medical advice!
A lady especially was eager at telling me how I had the classical symptoms of spinal stenosis, one day I got so sick that I had a nervous breakdown and ended up in the emergency room.... the doctors (a neurologist, a physiotherapist, a GP, a kinesiologist, an orthopedist) did several CT scans, MRIs of my neck , X rays, several neck tests (and NONE could find anything serious, other than massive muscle tension due to stress and anxiety up in the sky), the support group especially this lady was so eager at telling me, no don't trust them, u need this test, and this other test and this other test and this other kind of test and so on.... and I kept bugging doctors with all kind of ridiculous stupid tests!!!
Eventually I became friends with some of these people on Facebook and noticed a pattern, they all moaned and whined and complained ALL DAY about their horrible lives and pain and how miserable they were!
The lady who recommend me tests and exams and so on would post all day (in bed because I have the flu), next week (had to go to the ER because I had a lung infection), week after... (I have a horrible migraine for four days straight now), then (my neuralgia is killing me, not a fun day), next day (fun fun day, I was just diagnosed with sleep apnea), the next week (I am having palpitations and with this horrendous ear pain and fever I don't know what to do).... I mean fucking horrible!
One time she got me so nervous because she sent me an article that said that lyme disease gave u all the symptoms I had so I went and got tested for lyme disease, the test came back negative and I told her, her reply was what kind of test did they do? I told her, the Elisa and her reply was... nope not good go back and tell them you need this other specific kind of test because elisa doesnt detect lyme.... at that point I got so sick of her I told her "Sharon, FUCK OFF I AM SO SICK OF YOU, LOSE WEIGHT, JOIN A GYM SO YOU CAN GET IN SHAPE, GO OUT AND LIVE LIFE HYPOCHONDRIAC!!!" later I felt bad, but I realized she needed to hear this!
I eventually decided that doctors knew best and de-friended all this miserable people on Facebook, got on with my life, went back to what I enjoyed (music, going out, started to hang out with positive people, went back to museums, started to look for a job) and at first I was nervous and the symptoms were there, but two weeks later I had NOTHING, no pins, no needles, no swollen anything and inside I felt that I was improving!! I slowly started to feel normal again and one day when I was completely fine I looked back to that experience and I realized how much my anxiety was killing me!!!
Recently I checked that lady's profile and she's bugging a doctor because she has supposedly a trapped on the high part of the neck near her lower cerebellum and need a special surgery that might potentially leave her with cognitive loss), that six months after she had shoulder surgery, and after she had some therapy for sciatica (IT'S RIDICULOUS, she's still very overweight, constantly glued to google and on UK disability)
So I don't mean to ridicule anyone, but honestly lisa you would do yourself an ENORMOUS FAVOR if you stop googling things and leave support groups full of negative, anxious ridden people who are lost and don't know where to turn but who won't take advice at the same time.
Good luck and honestly I think you are fine!!!
if after all the medical tests you've done the only thing they gave you was prozac for anxiety, I think you are just very anxious!
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