| Re: Can acupuncture or alternative medicine treat this?
When you're anxious and have an anxiety disorder everything scares you, you become paranoid at lots of things most people aren't scared of simply because your mind is overactive in thinking about danger. Hypochondria is just an unrealistic fear of getting sick or physical problems. When you're anxious you also go looking for things that may or maynot be wrong with you and that can make you worse because it's a never ending cycle. You become overly aware of things like rining ears, that funny feeling in your hands, eyes, stomach, back etc.. and concentrating on these feelings can even magnify them more than they are. Having said that when you're stressed and anxious many regulatory systems in your body get thrown off and that can cause all sorts of real symptoms not just imagined. Every doctor will acknowledge that stress hormones can age a person prematurely, cause insomnia, depression, high blood pressure etc.. so the main thing to do is make sure all the blood tests come out fine and make sure it's not a nerve problem. Then if they really can't find anything really wrong then you should stop chasing your symptoms. If it's really just anxiety and stress then change your diet to something more healthy and doesn't have too much sugars. Excercise alot to burn off those stress hormones, take multivitamins, take regular doses of fish oil and yes maybe even see acupuncturists or massage therapists to help you along your healing process and help you body do what it's supposed to and bring you back in balance. That's how i did it now I'm mostly all symptom free. Good luck.
Frank
Last edited by Frank186; 07-20-2006 at 09:11 PM.
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