AnxietySuckss
16-08-16, 07:48
I stopped taking my 5mg of Escitalopram (Cipralex) about a week ago. The only withdrawal symptom I have been experiencing is Brain Zaps (feelings of electricity jolting from your head to the rest of your body). Common symptom, cool, I was doing fine. I felt great, better than I have since January when I had all of my really bad health anxiety and panic attacks over it.
Forward to today.
I felt so great I thought I would accept an invitation to go to a water park. We were there for at least 6 hours, nice sunny day, no clouds, we had a blast. I got home about 5 hours ago and I started feeling a burn on my upper shoulders which is now on my whole body (aside from the area that my shorts covered) Great. Sunburn. I've never had sunburn before so I don't know what to expect (I put on some Noxzema in the areas where it burns the most). So the sunburns are taken care of. They're not major, they just sting a bit in my upper shoulder and chest area.
Sunburns taken care of and skip to 2 hours ago, I started feeling achy and I noticed I am hot all over. Took my temp: 37.4 degrees celsius. Not too bad, but I feel a lot more hot than that. My hands and feet are freezing though.
I keep getting these thoughts that it is something bad, like sepsis or some sort of blood poisoning running through my system and that it can only get worse from here. My mouth is going dry because of the thoughts and my anxiety just keeps rising.
I feel slightly better typing this and getting my thoughts out there so other people can kind of see what other people go through with this stuff. It's crazy sometimes. I know it's anxiety, but I just can't shake that small loud echoey noise in the back of my head that says it's something really bad.
Sorry for the long post and appreciate you reading it if you got this far.
Feel free to share any stories you might have gone through that are similar to what I'm going through.
Forward to today.
I felt so great I thought I would accept an invitation to go to a water park. We were there for at least 6 hours, nice sunny day, no clouds, we had a blast. I got home about 5 hours ago and I started feeling a burn on my upper shoulders which is now on my whole body (aside from the area that my shorts covered) Great. Sunburn. I've never had sunburn before so I don't know what to expect (I put on some Noxzema in the areas where it burns the most). So the sunburns are taken care of. They're not major, they just sting a bit in my upper shoulder and chest area.
Sunburns taken care of and skip to 2 hours ago, I started feeling achy and I noticed I am hot all over. Took my temp: 37.4 degrees celsius. Not too bad, but I feel a lot more hot than that. My hands and feet are freezing though.
I keep getting these thoughts that it is something bad, like sepsis or some sort of blood poisoning running through my system and that it can only get worse from here. My mouth is going dry because of the thoughts and my anxiety just keeps rising.
I feel slightly better typing this and getting my thoughts out there so other people can kind of see what other people go through with this stuff. It's crazy sometimes. I know it's anxiety, but I just can't shake that small loud echoey noise in the back of my head that says it's something really bad.
Sorry for the long post and appreciate you reading it if you got this far.
Feel free to share any stories you might have gone through that are similar to what I'm going through.