lilo10191
16-12-12, 20:21
Hello, my names Leah i am a 24 and live in the South West. I have suffered with Health Anxiety for 2 years now. When 1st diagnosed i decided to try and fight it on my own, after a years fighting i finally decided my own solutions were not working, so i went back to my doctor and they started me on 5mg of Ecitalopram eventually increased to 10mg, 15mg then 20mg the highest dose. I started to feel much better so i went back to my doctor and we both decided to start gradually coming off the medication and just 2 months ago i got back down to 5mg i was doing fine. However just a week ago i started feeling the anxiety creeping back up, started experiencing heart palpitations, heartburn, chest pain, pains in my upper back, shoulder and left arm so of course this set me off and i believed i was having a heart attack so much so that i had to go to A and E last night, they took my blood pressure and i had an ECG and everything was fine. So now im back 2 square 1, the doctor has advised i go back to 10mg which i have done, However the pain is still going on and im still convinced its my heart :-(
So that's me, looking forward to being able to talk to people in the same situation as me.
Thanks for reading and i will look forward to hearing from you
xx:)
So that's me, looking forward to being able to talk to people in the same situation as me.
Thanks for reading and i will look forward to hearing from you
xx:)