Health Anxiety

[Jodi_S]

I am brand new to the community and have been suffering health anxiety for the past couple of months. I was diagnosed prediabetic in June and went on a complete lifestyle change to reverse it. I cut out sugar and simple carbs to help lose weight. I lost too much weight too fast and bottomed out my potassium which put me in the hospital. They took me off the diuretic I was on because that attributed to the potassium loss. Potassium has been great but I do still fear it bottoming out. My blood pressure has been steady for the most part and I would like to avoid meds with lifestyle change. My doc thinks I can do it but it spikes on me when I have anxiety. Anxiety has been AWFUL because of all my overthinking and worryingly by about my potassium, bp, and blood sugar levels. My sugars have been great until yesterday when I went for blood work and it came back a little high. I have read that anxiety can make that worse too. So, I am my own worst enemy right now because my anxiety is so bad and it’s making everything I’m worried about worse.