Stress or TIA? - Anxiety Message Board

milwaukee2 · 03-15-2004, 07:41 PM

Hi,

Something unusual happened to me and don't know if this is something that I should run to the doctor with like TIA (stroke) or is this stress induced...I have posted this on the Stroke board as well just in case...

I am a male 29 Years old. I am ususally very high energy and always pretty wound up. Have also a pretty stressful job where I work fairly long hours and tend to stress out fairly easily over work-matters as well.

Had a stressfull week and big annoucements were to be made last wednesday. Those announcements weren't favorable, I was taking it very cooly and anticiapted those. However after two cups of expresso I got a headache and fog over my brain. Got very tired, my eyes started aching, and couldn't focus at work at all. The headache wasn't painfull or throbbing...but more like a fog and pressure descendet on my mind.

The headache and foginess started to get less and less but on Thursday I started getting a backache and in the afternoon after a nap, the vision in my right eye went worse. (not like it was gone or super blurry but off...enough to notice)...have glasses (1.5 year old prescription) but they didn't make the blur go completely away...On Friday night the backache was so bad that I had to sleep on the recliner after 3 ibuprofens...

On Saturday the headache and foginess was almost gone, but my vision was still sligtly off and not I could swear that my right hand (also same side as my eye problem) started to tingle a little and feels colder...This made me a little anxious...when I started reading these symptoms I felt like I am driving myself nuts with possibilities of stroke, TIA etc etc...

Now I don't want to drive myself nuts...The headache and sudden fog and lack of concentration were sudden. (wednesday)..the rest came days later...does this sound like TIA?

Thanks for sticking with me on this post..its just never happened to me and I am freaking out a little.

BTW: I also stopped drinking coffee cold turkey after the headache from it but stopped on thursday morning...so not sure how this is playing into this..

Thanks

Matt

milwaukee2 · 03-15-2004, 07:43 PM

The question in the message below should have read...Is this Stress related...do these symptoms sound/look familiar or should I be concerned...

Thanks again for all your help.

Matt

Quote:

Originally Posted by milwaukee2

Hi,

Something unusual happened to me and don't know if this is something that I should run to the doctor with like TIA (stroke) or is this stress induced...I have posted this on the Stroke board as well just in case...

I am a male 29 Years old. I am ususally very high energy and always pretty wound up. Have also a pretty stressful job where I work fairly long hours and tend to stress out fairly easily over work-matters as well.

Had a stressfull week and big annoucements were to be made last wednesday. Those announcements weren't favorable, I was taking it very cooly and anticiapted those. However after two cups of expresso I got a headache and fog over my brain. Got very tired, my eyes started aching, and couldn't focus at work at all. The headache wasn't painfull or throbbing...but more like a fog and pressure descendet on my mind.

The headache and foginess started to get less and less but on Thursday I started getting a backache and in the afternoon after a nap, the vision in my right eye went worse. (not like it was gone or super blurry but off...enough to notice)...have glasses (1.5 year old prescription) but they didn't make the blur go completely away...On Friday night the backache was so bad that I had to sleep on the recliner after 3 ibuprofens...

On Saturday the headache and foginess was almost gone, but my vision was still sligtly off and not I could swear that my right hand (also same side as my eye problem) started to tingle a little and feels colder...This made me a little anxious...when I started reading these symptoms I felt like I am driving myself nuts with possibilities of stroke, TIA etc etc...

Now I don't want to drive myself nuts...The headache and sudden fog and lack of concentration were sudden. (wednesday)..the rest came days later...does this sound like TIA?

Thanks for sticking with me on this post..its just never happened to me and I am freaking out a little.

BTW: I also stopped drinking coffee cold turkey after the headache from it but stopped on thursday morning...so not sure how this is playing into this..

Thanks

Matt

lori j · 03-16-2004, 02:21 AM

It could be stress related, but the backache you speak of doesn't seem to be a part of the stress. If I were you, I'd definitely make a doctors appointment & get checked out, the sight problem is also one of concern.
Like you say, you've been pretty much stressed most of your life & in this job, I would think if you were to have panic attacks from stress, the first one wouldn't be this severe. I could be all wrong, but with all those symptoms, it would be a good idea to have it checked. If they find nothing, then they will probably say it's stress related & prescribe some meds for you.
Maybe someone else here has some thoughts on this that may be familiar with your symptoms. YOu may want to post this on the panic attack board, which is more of what I would consider it may be.

hry33 · 03-16-2004, 10:56 AM

it was briefly fashionable to confuse panic attacks with transient strokes, but it doesnt sound like a panic attack to me, see doc