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Medication or meditation

Bees

I'm in 2 minds as to whether I should try medication or take up meditation. I suffer from anxiety, don't we all right lol but recently the physical effects it causes me have increased from pain in my chest to weird jaw tightness which almost feels like it's pulling or spasming. I worry it will dislocate but then that just makes my anxiety worse. I've considered a trip to the dentist but as with doctors I think it would cause a meltdown...so no I don't think so. Lolol.

I have seen my doctor before about chest pain and she was really lacking in sympathy and made me feel like I was wasting her time lol. Most doctors appear to have this approach with me. 

I've looked up medication and it sounds like it works for some but only a few. Most people with autism don't respond well to medication. Meditation sounds like it might be a good approach to take so I am considering doing that, just to see if it actually works or not. I think one of my biggest problems is that my muscles tighten and spasm, anxiety reaction and that's the issue with my chest and jaw. Naturally my anxiety then shoots up and convinces me I'm having lung problems and serious jaw problems.

Hehe you tried medication and meditation? 

What are your thoughts on both?

I'm leaning towards meditation but I'm also considering medication, though I do worry about the side effects as I read most have horrible side effects.

I don't know why my body can't be normal and not cause me all these inconveniences Confused

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  • waait just right there...

    sorry but when your chest pain turns to jaw effects and jaw pain.. then your looking at a potential heart issue and you need to ask your gp about that and bring that up with them.

  • in reply to Caelus

    I sometimes worry about heart problems but I think it's just anxiety. Obviously if it gets any worse I would see the doctor but it's not that bad, more annoying than anything else...I'll be sat or walking and then suddenly can feel my jaw gets tight and starts pulling. So uncomfortable and painful. 

  • in reply to Bees

    thats the thing though, anxiety and stress does tight chestedness and so on... but when you have jaw or arm effects then thats when you check out for anything possibly worse.

    although the nhs are pretty rubbish, when i spoke to them about my chest pain they told me they will see me in 4 months then when they saw me they didnt really do much and said its probably just musculoskeletal strain or something lol but they did a blood test to be sure anyway and that pressure thing.

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  • in reply to Bees

    thats the thing though, anxiety and stress does tight chestedness and so on... but when you have jaw or arm effects then thats when you check out for anything possibly worse.

    although the nhs are pretty rubbish, when i spoke to them about my chest pain they told me they will see me in 4 months then when they saw me they didnt really do much and said its probably just musculoskeletal strain or something lol but they did a blood test to be sure anyway and that pressure thing.

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  • in reply to Caelus

    I will go and see the doctor at some point but not just yet that is always something that gets me stressed and needs a lot of preparation lolol. I wish my doctor was more understanding, just a really dismissive person and the autism doesn't seem to be understood all that well.

    I hope you're ok after all you went through. I understand being in a load of pain it can be exhausting and extremely difficult. I hate blood tests but just about cope...but the arm pressure thing always makes me pass out lol.