Hi there,
My name a Rudy, a 26 year old physics student from the Netherlands.
A lot of stress due to my study gave me a weird symptom: twitching muscle all over my body. It made me anxious and the anxiety resulted in having more weird symptoms (numb areas on the skin which did not seem to go away, stinging sensations on the skin, weak legs), which of course made my anxiety worse. After a big panick attack and a long talk with my parents, I had a breakthrough: I accepted that all symptoms were result of my anxiety. In stead of searching for a cause of all those weird symptoms (diseases like ALS, or MS), I accepted that I was ill in my head and that helped me a lot. I started feeling better mentally (way less anxious), but physically worse (perhaps because I did not fight the symptoms anymore). In time the symptoms became less pronounced and some even faded away. This gave me confidence and I started working on my study again after two months sitting at home. The first day was tiring, my collegues wanted to know what happend. I again used my energy reserves, as I was not fully 'healed' yet. Two days later the tinnitus started and my anxiety was there all over again... That was almost four weeks ago. Since then, I've had ups and downs. I find that my T is very much correlated with my anxiety level, my energy and stress. This gives me hope that it will subside to the background once I give my mind and body the rest that it needs. On a Dutch website I read about the so called Tinnitus syndrome: Tinnitus caused by stress, which gives stress and one lives in a vicious circle. Exactly what happened to me.
Lately I've had much trouble sleeping due to the stress and the T, hence my appearance here.
Kind regards,
Rudy
My name a Rudy, a 26 year old physics student from the Netherlands.
A lot of stress due to my study gave me a weird symptom: twitching muscle all over my body. It made me anxious and the anxiety resulted in having more weird symptoms (numb areas on the skin which did not seem to go away, stinging sensations on the skin, weak legs), which of course made my anxiety worse. After a big panick attack and a long talk with my parents, I had a breakthrough: I accepted that all symptoms were result of my anxiety. In stead of searching for a cause of all those weird symptoms (diseases like ALS, or MS), I accepted that I was ill in my head and that helped me a lot. I started feeling better mentally (way less anxious), but physically worse (perhaps because I did not fight the symptoms anymore). In time the symptoms became less pronounced and some even faded away. This gave me confidence and I started working on my study again after two months sitting at home. The first day was tiring, my collegues wanted to know what happend. I again used my energy reserves, as I was not fully 'healed' yet. Two days later the tinnitus started and my anxiety was there all over again... That was almost four weeks ago. Since then, I've had ups and downs. I find that my T is very much correlated with my anxiety level, my energy and stress. This gives me hope that it will subside to the background once I give my mind and body the rest that it needs. On a Dutch website I read about the so called Tinnitus syndrome: Tinnitus caused by stress, which gives stress and one lives in a vicious circle. Exactly what happened to me.
Lately I've had much trouble sleeping due to the stress and the T, hence my appearance here.
Kind regards,
Rudy
This juli I reserved some space at university to test new methods of diagnostics and a treatment, perhaps you would like to participate. I'll place a call for anyone that lives nearby when I'm ready.
