Anxiety from labrythitus

Mental health
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Posting this in hope that if I talk it'll go away sooner ...

Well after 12 weeks suffering with recovering from labrythitus I decided enough is enough as I've totally lost my mojo with everything and even friends and family are noticing. So i went to the doctors this morning...

Doctor said he thinks my symptoms are not labrythitus anymore but anxiety( the pain in my life) He said I definitely had Lab 12 weeks ago though feels it's triggered my anxiety off now causing me to be so worried about doing anything because of what i went through. so im becoming depressed. Im suffering with similar symptoms from the Lab; light head, pressure to ear and side of head plus nausea and top it off emotional. Dr said its because im worried about having labrythitus that im going through the symptoms, so a vicious circle. Doctor has put me on antidepressant pills to nip it in early as so run down with myself, so lost. I have 10mg for 2 weeks which is to be doubled after that. Pills helped me last time. I so wish I didn't have anxiety issues.

Have to go back in a few weeks. I really hope this will help settle things as I miss being 'me'

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I’m sorry you are feeling this way. I think it’s really common for an illness to trigger anxiety. Same thing happened to me, mine was a mixture of things though, rotator cuff injury plus gastritis which caused me to stop eating and I lost a lot of weight in a very short space of time. I think I big illness such as what you have had can easily put the body into shock like mine, which then triggers anxiety... horrible horrible anxieties. I’m on week 6 of citalopram 10mg and although I’m currently experiencing a bit of a blip, for the most part I have been feeling much better. 

You say you were in medication before? Was it the same and did it help back then? How long were you on it? It’ll again probably take a while for your medication to get into your system properly again, but it will help. Give it 4-6 weeks. 

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Hiya. Thank you for taking the time to reply to me .

I'm on 10mg of citalopram too, got to double it after 2 weeks. Had same medicine last time which helped, not sure how long exactly that I was on then though a few months. I hope you have a more postive 2018 xx