Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Hi Everyone,
My husband and I had COVID in August. We had finally booked a trip to visit family and friends we had not seen in a year and a half and developed colds prior to the trip. I had been exposed to two co-workers who came down with COVID. I tested negative and our PCP said my husband did not need to be tested because I had tested negative and his symptoms were more like bronchitis. He was put on a short dose of steroids and started to feel better. So we went on our trip.
While on our trip we continued to cough, especially my husband. We visited 5 different households and a few days after we visited the first house they got symptoms and tested positive. The trip was far from being the wonderful reunion I had hoped for as people got sick after we visited. Of course, we have no idea if we picked it up on the plane, maybe from the first people we visited? Was my test a false negative? I couldn’t wait to get home.
We spent the last night at a hotel near the airport. I had a panic attack during the night while my husband slept beside me. I may have been having the start of anxiety during the trip but confused it with the humidity which always makes me feel “off.” The plane home was filled with people coughing and sneezing...all wearing masks. We went to get tested the morning after our return. I was again negative, even with loss of taste and smell by this point, and my husband tested positive.
We quarantined 14 days per our PCP. During that time I had terrible anxiety that I have not felt in at least 6 years. At times it felt like my body was vibrating. I worried about my husband because he was coughing so badly that they gave him the antibody infusion. While on our trip I found out that the husband of one of my coworkers who had contracted COVID died. This was a huge trigger for me. Although I later found out he was unvaccinated and both my husband and I are vaccinated.
We are both so much better a month later but I am still riddled with hot flashes and anxiety. It is terrible in the morning and makes it difficult getting out of bed. I am trying to figure out what is going on. My friend who lives at the first place we visited is also having anxiety and hot flashes. We are both post menopausal and this feels like what I went through for menopause. Has anyone else had a spike in anxiety after having COVID?
My doctor just increased my Zoloft that I take for GAD. I also have PRN low dose Ativan that I try to only take when I really need to take the edge off.
I love taking afternoon naps but find it difficult to fully fall asleep so that is unsatisfactory and frustrating. At night I am taking Magnesium and Benedryl to help me sleep.
I have begun journaling, meditation and tapping. I am just so frustrated feeling this way. I am trying to figure out what I am supposed to learn from this? Is it a cry to slow down?
I am happy to have found this site for support:)
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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Years ago, I won a mirrored armoire from my job. It's in my bedroom but I rarely stand in front of it. Yesterday, I had to have a dexascan done so I had to change into a gown. There was a full length mirror in the changing room. I'm aware that I gained 5 to 7 pounds over the last year from cheating on Keto but I didn't know what it looked like. It was a reality check.
Gentle empathy on the Covid Anxiety. Proof currently unavailable, but, whichever side of the great mask debate you are on, I do believe the Corona Anxiety Pandemic is claiming far more victims than The Virus is even capable of.
I'm still not afraid of The Virus, but all the hysteria is scaring the unholies out of me. A post nasal drip doesn't mean what it did in 2019. My hubby went to the doctor about his annual allergy attack a week or two back. The anxiety attacks were virtually non-stop while I watched to make sure he wasn't going bring home a platoon of masked guards to carry us off to the internment camps for testing positive. Thankfully, he tested negative, but? ? ? The fun and games aren't over yet. The maskites are still marshaling their laws.
Prayers in progress that we don't all turn on each other and bring on the apocalypse. Just praying. . .
Healing hopes for all. No exceptions.
You've taken the time to write it out which is so important in helping to balance the anxiety level naturally back within normal range.
Anxiety is a helper, and when we become aware of it through either physical symptoms or mental symptoms, then we work diligently to bring it back within 'comfort' levels.
You handled the stress within the planning of the trip, the trip, and as information piled up, it was worked with in that moment.
Now that you're through the entire challenge which is filled with all of those separate moments, your body and brain are able to 'rest' and 'reset' to the better balance you usually have.
Glad you are healing well from the experience of illness, that you did make the trip, and that you know, whether or not you went, everyone could have been exposed anywhere.
Coughing and sneezing happen when pollen count suddenly increases dramatically, which occurs when weather has changed quickly. This adds to the challenge already happening.