Anxiety much😭

[Sisgreen]

Been dealing with anxiety and PTSD pretty much my whole life I covered it by smoking cigarettes for the last 19 years. When I quit in June noticed my severe anxiety and pd got worse unbarring almost. Been in and out of hospital, primary doctor and ri clinic an hour from where I live. I'm tired of being misdiagnosed and perscribe things that either don't work for me or are for a completely different disorder I don't carry. So far only thing working for my onset PD and anxiety is Ativan. However, can't get it where I live because no tele health doctor available. So Everytime I have a panic attack I end up in the hospital 😓. So tired of feeling like this almost tempted to start Smoking again 😢 if that will even work at this point.

[hypercat54]

Hi nice to meet you and welcome to the site. Well done on packing in the ciggies as that is far from easy as I know. I am still smoke but did pack it in for 17 months but felt so awful I did stupidly go back to it. However I have lung disease and smoking masked other health issues and helped with my depression so stupidly went back to it.

I note that you gave up cold turkey. I think giving up this way is much too harsh for you as it's brought all the things back up which smoking was helping with. Maybe try doing some patches or some other form of NRT would ease your issues.

Whatever, there is a quit smoking site on here which helps with the quitting and to stay off them too. They were brilliant with me so I recommend you give them a look. Just type Quit into other communities and the site will come up. Good luck.

[Sisgreen in reply to hypercat54]

Thank you so much for your encouraging words. Yea definitely has brought up underlining issues I've masked. Trying to do alot of breathing and relaxing when I can.

[Daveacr1959]

Daily cardio exercise to produce endorphins that battle anxiety. Has helped me for 50 years