So a bit of an update as I haven't posted in a while. I'm just over three months into them and I feel as though I've been making progress...until yesterday when I came crashing back down again
The last few months haven't all been plain sailing but it definitely felt like I was moving forwards and was able to be more active than I have in a long time. Whether that was down to the Fluoxetine, the beta blockers, the counselling, a more positive attitude or a combination of all of them I don't know but it was better.
Yesterday however things took a turn for the worse for some reason. I've had a few periods of intense sweating on the meds but yesterday took it to a different level, in fact I'm not even sure if it was the same thing or something different. My skin suddenly felt weird all over my body, almost like a burning sensation but not quite. Legs, arms, back, nether regions the works. Never felt anything like it before. It seemed to last for about 30 mins but went away and came back a bit during that time. It completely threw me to be honest especially as I have been doing so well recently. As a consequence I felt off all day yesterday. Then after a few hours sleep I awoke to feeling quite shaky, managed to drop back off to sleep after a while only to wake up feeling the same way again not long after. This repeated a few times. I'm still feeling off now and whilst I know that some of it is likely to be anxiety the whole thing has left me baffled really. I'm basically as bad (in a different way) to how I was three months ago. I was hoping that yesterday was some weird blip but the fact I'm feeling off again today isn't filling me with confidence.
It's so frustrating to feel as though things are on the up only to get slapped back down again.
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I think what makes it worse is that whilst I try and put everything down to anxiety, I just don't believe it. So that increases the worry further