Hey

This doesn't happen all the time, and I think it only happens when I've been particularly stressed and inactive for a while.

First time this happened was June last year, when I did a relatively mild session of weight lifting after a prolonged bout of anxiety and depression where I'd been laid up and literally had little to no physical activity for several months. That same night a few hours later I experienced an overwhelming sense of fear, diziness and shaking out of the blue. It felt like the after effects of exercise went from mild euphoria to absolute fear in a matter of seconds. I managed to get through the night, and then it came back in the morning with a vengeance. I ended up in A&E it was so bad (which I'd never done before) but predictably I was tested and probed and nothing was found.

Moving forward and I've been careful about over exercising since then. Last night however I think it happened again. I've been a little down and ill for the last month or so, but not overly so. I had been doing very small bursts of very light weight training on and off, but no real aerobic to speak of. So yesterday I did a little more weight training (and I'm talking 5 minutes worth with very light weights), and then I went for a pretty brisk walk for 20 minutes. Enough to get me sweating and my heart rate up to about 120-130.

Bam, 3-4 hours later I was smashed with the anxiety/dizziness/shaking etc.

I'm 41, don't smoke or drink, no drugs and my diet is pretty good.

This inability to exercise at even a medium level is really frustrating.

I've read that it's caused by toxins being released into my bloodstream from the exertion, that have been stored up over many months of inactivity and anxiety. With me it lasts between 2-4 days.

Does anybody else suffer from this, and have you found a way to combat it?


Thanks