joshbagosh
06-06-2012, 03:27 PM
My name is Josh I'm 23 years old, I've been dealing with "anxiety" for about 4 months now.
It all started when my heart went into afib. Went to the ER and was told I drink too much energy drinks. 2 days later I started to get chest tightness and chest pains, I was scared I was having a heart attack so I went to the ER and they gave me ekgs, heart X-ray, blood tests. Everything came back normal! I dealt with chest pains for about 3 weeks. Then I started to get palps which also scared me, landed me into the ER again, blood tests, urine tests, and thyroid test came back normal "of course they would". They put me on a 24 hour heart monitor, which came back with some non life threatening electrical abnormalties. Palps lasted around a week then subsided. I then got a phone call from the hospital telling me I need to see a cardiologist ASAP for my irregularities on the monitor. I then had my first panic attack! I was driving and had this huge rush of adrenaline, I slammed on my brakes called 911 and took an ambulance ride to the hospital. More blood tests, EKG, everything normal! Couple days went by had a stress echocardiogram done. Doctor says my heart is great and the irregularities are perfectly normal for me.
Since then I've had headaches, more heart palps and flutters, leg pains, tingly sensations on the left side of body from my head to my groin area, all of witch subsided and left bringing a new symptom every week.
I was so tired of feeling this way I had my doctor proscribe me with anti depressants which are for what I am told are to help with GAD. She prescribed me with Paxil and Xanax. I took about 5 days of Paxil and stopped after it 10 folded my anxiety, made me unable to focus and a very confused state of mind. It literally took me a week and a half to feel better!
I've been off from Paxil for about 3 weeks but 3 days ago I started getting these weird headaches. It's almost like I'm lightheaded but not really. I sometimes get dizzy, a little nauseous. It's very hard to explain but sometimes I don't even feel pain in my head but I just feel down right funny but it's just in my head. I'm almost certain it's anxiety because all my other symptoms have gone away in a weeks time but this one really scares me! Has anyone ever fealty this way? Can tension headaches make you feel this way?
I apologize for the long explanation but for some reason knowing that someone else has gone through the same situation or symptoms makes me feel better. I keep thinking I have a brain tumor or something!!!
Any feed back would be appreciated thanks for taking time and helping me. God bless!!!
It all started when my heart went into afib. Went to the ER and was told I drink too much energy drinks. 2 days later I started to get chest tightness and chest pains, I was scared I was having a heart attack so I went to the ER and they gave me ekgs, heart X-ray, blood tests. Everything came back normal! I dealt with chest pains for about 3 weeks. Then I started to get palps which also scared me, landed me into the ER again, blood tests, urine tests, and thyroid test came back normal "of course they would". They put me on a 24 hour heart monitor, which came back with some non life threatening electrical abnormalties. Palps lasted around a week then subsided. I then got a phone call from the hospital telling me I need to see a cardiologist ASAP for my irregularities on the monitor. I then had my first panic attack! I was driving and had this huge rush of adrenaline, I slammed on my brakes called 911 and took an ambulance ride to the hospital. More blood tests, EKG, everything normal! Couple days went by had a stress echocardiogram done. Doctor says my heart is great and the irregularities are perfectly normal for me.
Since then I've had headaches, more heart palps and flutters, leg pains, tingly sensations on the left side of body from my head to my groin area, all of witch subsided and left bringing a new symptom every week.
I was so tired of feeling this way I had my doctor proscribe me with anti depressants which are for what I am told are to help with GAD. She prescribed me with Paxil and Xanax. I took about 5 days of Paxil and stopped after it 10 folded my anxiety, made me unable to focus and a very confused state of mind. It literally took me a week and a half to feel better!
I've been off from Paxil for about 3 weeks but 3 days ago I started getting these weird headaches. It's almost like I'm lightheaded but not really. I sometimes get dizzy, a little nauseous. It's very hard to explain but sometimes I don't even feel pain in my head but I just feel down right funny but it's just in my head. I'm almost certain it's anxiety because all my other symptoms have gone away in a weeks time but this one really scares me! Has anyone ever fealty this way? Can tension headaches make you feel this way?
I apologize for the long explanation but for some reason knowing that someone else has gone through the same situation or symptoms makes me feel better. I keep thinking I have a brain tumor or something!!!
Any feed back would be appreciated thanks for taking time and helping me. God bless!!!