Just looking for some reassurance. I've been doing pretty good. Was still having some tachycardia episodes/panic, but seemed to be dealing with it. Work is stressful, but doing it. The last few weeks though I have had more tachycardia episodes. The Nurse Practitioner just said it was the anxiety and wanted me to go back on Ativan. Told her I don't mind taking it once in awhile, but didn't want to take it on a regular basis. My potassium is low again, so have to take potassium pills (3.2) I've been taking them for the last couple of days and they will recheck my potassium level in a couple of weeks. I used to have to take these last year. I get scared taking them though because I'm afraid they may upset my stomach, though I don't think they really bothered me much before. My anxiety level is up and I'm not sure why. I think the tachycardia episodes scare me, even though they say my heart is fine. My job is extremely stressful and wonder if I should be looking for something that isn't so stressful? I am a director of nursing and feel like my workload is a lot. Everyone I work with is stressed out. Plus, there are meetings that I'm expected to go out of town for, and I haven't had to do that for several months and am scared to do that with the anxiety. (I have done it though even when my anxiety was higher). I also said I would to to the college I graduated from in town and do a presentation to the nursing leadership class. That is causing me anxiety, too. Usually I would enjoy that, but with the anxiety, it makes it hard to do. I know I've read before from other people that sometimes your anxiety goes up high again, but it will come back down.
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