Hi, new to the forum, but have been reading post for the past few weeks. I was diagnosed with Anxiety in 2014, had the usual heart palpitations, chest pains, dizziness and lead to several anxiety/panic attacks. Was on medication for 6 months and it helped, took myself off it and was good for a few years. Anyways, fast forward to now, within the past 6 months i have found out my wife and I are expecting our first child, and i started a new job. My health anxiety went into hyperdrive. I was getting new symptoms that i wasnt used to. Burning skin, hot flashes, pain in my abdomen, chest pains, achy muscles im random spots. Most of them have passed after several weeks. I went to my (im going to stop here abd apologize for the length of this post lol) dr and he thinks its anxiety but did blood work just in case and everything came back fine. Something im dealing with now is tension in my temple mostly left side but its not a headache. Just like i have been clenching my jaw and its sore or tender. I get light sensitivities sometimes but not always. I get tired pretty easy, and distracted, like when im driving ill focus in (or drift off?) on a car or tree and feel pretty tired. Lol i know that sounds weird. It doesnt have to be when im driving but thats usually when it happens. I can see fine its just the zoned out feeling. Please help calm my anxiety!
On which medication were you on for 6 months ?
escitalopram 10mg. (Generic for Lexapro)
Its weird, my symptoms will come and go. And then the new ones ill focus on and they are the next one that goes on for awhile. Im a little familiar with Derealization and that could be what my mind is doing with the sleepy, distracted feeling
I also had some IBS that went away after about a week. Its really weird stuff.