Hi all,
I hope I’m posting this in the correct place.
I’m 43 and never had anxiety that I know of before. I’ve had some heart palpitations in the past but didn’t really think about. For as long as I can remember I had to take Zzzquil to get to sleep (so hard to shut my mind off to sleep).
Back in July I woke up with the room spinning. That has never happened before and FEAKED me out. Really thought I was going to die or something bad was happening. The next few days had crazy heart palpitations, getting light headed. I went to urgent care and had a EKG and was told I was fine. That night I ended up going to the emergency room. Had another EKG and chest X-ray, blood work and everything checked out fine. The did give me something in an IV and made me calm down and relaxed. My doctor had me get a echo cardio gram and that was fine with a mild mitral valve prolapse. I went to a cardiologist, more EKG’s and wore a heart monitor for 72 hours and everything was normal. She really thinks this was all anxiety causing this. She put me 25mg of Sertraline to take daily and 25mg of Alprazolam for anxiety attack. She also gave me 50mg of Hydroxyzine to help me sleep and it helps a little for anxiety.
Things were going ok, I would get a little anxious at night. My doctor increased my Sertraline to 50mg.
Thing have been pretty good this month until the last few days. I have woken up to use the bathroom and had anxiety attacks and I ended up having to take a Alprazolam to calm down and get back to sleep.
The only thing that was different, I was taking a antibiotic for 5 days after having a cyst removed.
So I don’t know if the antibiotic are interfering with the Sertraline. I am also getting a sinus infection or cold and not sure if it’s that.
The other hard part is I am hesitant to talk to my wife about my “anxiety” because she says she doesn’t understand it. That I should be able to “not think about it”
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