Coping with Health Anxiety and coming off Fluxotine

[ChelleJo]

I've been coping with Health Anxiety for a few months now. Every since my doctor told me I had high cholesterol, I've just went in a downward spiral. I spent nearly every day worrying that I was about to have a heart attack, worried about blood clots, and I have axillary breast tissue, so I've worried that it was cancer.

The doctor assured me that I was fine. The blood test came back good, and I am health except medium cholesterol. But I couldn't shake the feelings. I ended up at the ER on July 6th, from high heart rate, thinking I was having a heart attack. I know, looking back, that every time I would check my heart rate, I would get progressively more and more anxious, and the heart rate stayed high.

The EKG came back fine, and the doctor assured me I was considered Low-Risk for heart failure, even with my cholesterol. I went home, and still had high heart rate periodically and then worried that my heart would give out from the constant high stress I was in.

My GP assured me that wasn't the case and that I was fine, and wanted me to get on Flux (Prozac). So I did. And that was the biggest mistake ever. My anxiety kicked into a high gear I wasn't even aware there was. I was in a constant state of panic. So after 3 weeks, I stopped taking the medicine. Today is day 4 off of it.

Yesterday I was somewhat stressed (over nothing, just tense and anxious). Come evening, I figured I'd get more stressed cause that is when my husband goes to work and I am usually more stressed when he leaves. But, surprisingly, I calmed down about 30 minutes after he left. I felt like my old self again. No stress. No tension. No anxiety. Yeah, I started worrying about my Axillary Breast tissue. And that got me a bit worked up a couple hours later, but I was able to successfully pull myself out of it.

And today, I'm still a bit stressed about my Axillary breast tissue, but I have felt more normal then I have in over a month. I feel like I can cope with this anxiety, not that it is consuming me, as it was. I feel like I can breath and live normally. Laugh with my family, joke with my kids.

Thank you for listening. I just needed to vent. I still have anxiety. I still am stressing over (at the moment) my axillary breast tissue. But, I just keep replaying what the doctor told me about it and trying to calm down. At least this, I can cope with.

[Endy5]

Sometimes it just helps to vent and talk with people who understand what your going through

[Briannafaye1]

Oh yes Heath anxiety with me too! My Heath anxiety triggered me because I had this bump that was really red by my groin and I've been scared it was infected and couldn't get the right treat and go into blood infection , but I got my antibiotics for it & it still scares me , it's like o gotta make sure to get blood work done and my doctor doesn't wanna give me one cause he thinks everything is okay! , but I always never believe any doctor I always lean towards the negative side , it's hard I hate the anxiety!!