PS My trigger is anything to do with my heart.

What steps are you taking to manage the anxiety?

Hyper awareness and hyper vigilance of breathing, my heart rate and heart beat, etc is part of my anxiety experience when it’s particularly amped up. I find meditation helpful with that as well as exercise.

Welcome to the anxiety board at DS.

You've taken the important first step in writing it out.

Keep writing it out, sharing thoughts, feelings, emotions, and words to give yourself clues to what you can do to help improve your well-being and better balance.

I am trying meditation. I now I need to exercise more. I do walk at lunch for 15 minutes each day. When I go home all I want to do is eat dinner and just try to relax and when i do my meditation sometimes all i do is feel my heart beating. For the last few days I've done nothing buy cry on and off at work. I have the skills to manage but I'm not motivated to do any of it. I'm at work and I have so much trouble concentrating and I've been crying here too. This is been like this since the end of June, 2020. I'm so tired of this.

Yes, I have these feelings as well. Starting in the middle if October thru the beginning of December I literally layed in bed all day feeling very scared, having lots of trouble breathing and my heart beating very fast. I barely talked to my family or friends and I barely ate anything. Everytime I tried eating breakfast I would gag and sometimes throw up. A couple of times i couldn't hold down lunch and threw that up too. I am still dealing with this but at least I am out of bed and working on doing normal tasks throughout the day, and eating better. I still deal with chest pain and shortness of breath and I get very scared from these symptoms. I went to the doc and explained everything and he said that physically I am fine, but offered a script for antidepressants. A lot of times I don't feel fine, but I have to have trust in what the doctor said. Also, I can't get comfortable either and just lay down and relax. And I also have distanced myself from my family and friends but I am slowly spending more time with them. So what I'm trying to say is that i have felt many of the symptoms you are going thru and you are most likely fine. It makes me feel better that I am not alone with all these symptoms and being scared alot.
I know that was a lot to read, but I was just suprised to see someone going thru a lot of the thoughts and feelings I have been dealing with.

It's hell. My doctor changed my meds around. For 9 years I was on Effexor XR 150mg, 0.5mg of Clonazapam and 20mg of Lexapro in the am and 1.0mg of Clonzapam and 100mg of Trazadone at night for sleep. For those 9 years I was fine. Few issues but nothing I couldn't handle.

After I had a D & C done in June, 2020 to remove polyps from my uterus, I have had nothing but anxiety and really bad depression.

My doctor now has me on 0.5 of Clonazpam, 10mg of Busperion and 50mg of Sertraline (Zoloft) in the am, another 0.5 of Busperion in the late afternoon and my night time meds stayed the same. I just started to 50mg of Sertraline a week ago. She started me out at 12.5 on December 6th.

I feel like hell. I just want this nightmare to end.

Are you incorporating therapy/counseling with the meds? Might offer some additional support. I’ve always been an anxious person but I had a serious life threatening event several years ago and it really took my anxiety next level, panic attacks etc. I found therapy during that period really helpful.

I'm not sure what to say, but after a 4 year hiatus from this board and back to a "normal" life, my PE twinges have shown back up, and its got my anxiety back through the roof. Just went back on Lexapro today. Keep feeling funny feelings in my legs (but no swelling except mildly after a long day at work), feeling small minor pains in my chest, both sides, blurred peripheral vision from time to time, and just an overall inability to concentrate.

I will say the last time back in 2014 through 2016 when I was active on here it was soothing to hear that there's a bunch of other people out there feeling these things. You are not alone.

Oh my gosh I am so terribly sorry you are going through this right now. I know how you feel. I have had terrible episodes like this that have lasted for months. Heart palpitations are so scary. I remember the very 1st time I had them I went to the E.R. when I start to get them my I know my anxiety levels are high . It feels like I am being puched in the chest and I can feel it in my throat . When I get like this I have to Avoid caffeine all together because it makes the palpatations much stronger and more frequent .

rytheguy, hi, I remember you from the pulmonary embolism group You are ok!

I injured my rib cartilage back in September and was diagnosed with Costochondritis... basically it's inflammation of the area and makes it feel as if your chest is being torn open.

Yeah, great for someone with an anxiety disorder.

So logically I know what it is, yet for the last four months I've been in "This is it! This is heart attack time" on and off.

It is awful and I feel your pain.