Anxiety melt down

Mental health
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Were to start.

I'm a 33 year old whose diagnosed with Anxiety, Depression, OCD, IBS, and hypochondria.

Recently I went through a mild episode of shingles due to stress.

However, when I took my antiviral, I stopped taking my medication fearing it would interact with it.

My anxiety symptoms came back flooding in full force. Back pain, feeling faint/fatigued, inpatient, crying spells, and a new one that's terrified me, and ache/pain sensation on my lower right side of my throat when I yawn or swallow. Though, the funny thing, my throat has a mind of its own, sometimes when I swallow food or liquids it will ache, other time nothing. Then, I have a minute ear ache and a rash.

My primary checked my ears, lymph nodes, and proded around neck and found nothing. It's my anxiety causing it.

She ordered blood work for me. At the end of the appointment it became an intersession were she was trying to calm me down. That it's ok to feel an odd thing here or there. It's ok. Trust me. Bless her heart.

I restarted taking the meds, Though from what I see they've stopped working. From what I've read it seems I going through withdrawal stage of my medication. Looking for work, it would be the better path to get off it and try to battle it out naturally since the medication seemed more like temporary crutch.

I wanted to ask for those who've dealt with health anxiety, have any of you have these rashes that look like small mosquito bites and the swapping symptoms of feeling wobbly and having horrifying throat symptoms since my mind is racing that I have either lymphoma/leukemia or throat cancer.

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For your last question about Health Anxiety I have it almost every day and sometimes I convince myself I have horrible diseases or cancer or whatever my mind thinks of.  For example if I had a rash I would think it’s some serious medical problem when realistically it’s probably caused by shampoo or something minor I just want to let you know you’re not alone and good luck best of health

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Look up esophageal spasms. I've suffered these intermittently since I was 35. Horrible! Can range from slight pain when swallowing or difficulty swallowing like a wad of peanut butter coming up every 2 minutes to someone squeezing your food pipe til you almost throw up to just maddeningly painful (consuming) spasms every 30 seconds. This can last hours to DAYS. Often it is stress that causes it. Or even just GERD.

I have hypochondria too but sometimes these things are not in our heads nor are they life threatening. Sometimes just simple glitches in our imperfect systems that we have to come to terms with and learn to live with.

Alot of people don't know about esophageal spasms. This is the kissing cousin to "heartburn" except just higher up!

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Kinda same here. When I eat breakfast i feel my throat tighten or feel nauseous. afterwards I noticed my ache move around. Hence it has a mind of its own. This began to happen in the third day that I began my withdrawal from my anti depressant.

Right now, I'm feeling ok that I was able to check the withdrawal symptoms for my med (trintrllix) and it speaks about having muscle tension, and having and feeling nauseous. I guess my throat muscles tensed up and I'm having these sensations on my throat. Boy I hope it clears up soon.

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I forgot to add sometimes when I shift my head to my left i feel like a slight ache on the lower right of my throat. That kinda gives me the clue it's a muscle than something in my throat. Though, my anxiety to play games throws all the other sensations.

I've had chest pains, testicular aches, headaches. I'm the end...anxiety. Frustrating though what can I do. Just calm down and focus on the moment.

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Just wanted to update everyone. 

The shingles symptoms have gone away. 

Whatever feelings or sensations that I'm still having is due to withdrawal symptoms of my anti-depressant. 

My Primary ordered blood work to see if there was an issue that needed to be addressed. I called her office today, and I'm got off lucky. Normal blood results. 

Regular ol stress was culprit of this. So, I need to sharpen up my coping skills and perhaps go back and augment the dose of my antidepressant.