Hello! I am 39 y.o. female I have never suffered from anxiety before but after having covid 19 last October my mental health has been changed. I constantly experience tight chest, a feeling of a lump in my throat, strange coughs and also hot flushes over my neck and arms.
I just wonder if anybody have got anxiety after covid19?
PS .my covid symptoms were mild: I had a temperature for a day and just lost a sense of smell and taste.
Hello. I had covid last July and three months later I started having panic attacks and bad anxiety. Never had it before. It was so scary. But got on lexapro and have been on it and I have been doing a lot better. I still have a little anxiety every once in awhile but it’s manageable. I also talk to a therapist. And that helps a lot. Hang in there it will get better. I have a great husband that helped me through all of this. Take care
Thank you for your reply🙏! I was prescribed escitalopram and I took it for 6 months. Also had CBT for 2 months. And actually felt really great! Just sometimes had a lump in my throat or tight chest. So the therapy and pills helped me a lot . I decided to come off escitalopram (unfortunately didn't ask a doctor's advice🙈) reducing a dose. And in 10 days I started to feel awful again: Palpitations, hot flashes, tight chest, a lump. Omg. I didn't understand what was going on with me and how to help myself.
Doctor prescribed me sertraline now so it's my 3rd day to take a new pill.
I put so much weight on taking escitalopram that's why I decided to quit. Seems it was a wrong decision😿.
Thank you again for your reply. Take care. X
I still do have chest tightness every once in awhile. I have gain weight too with lexapro. I would like to get off it but I’m afraid to. I go to the dr next month. I’ll see what they say. As everyone says it will get better. It’s just hard to see it now.
seems covid has triggered anxiety in you (anxiety can't be contracted obviously, it's 100% created in our heads ☺️) i would start to try and disassociate covid and your anxiety. when you get anxious confirm it's just that and not related to covid. then you can work to calm yourself and tell yourself this is a natural human condition (a horrible albeit) i guess it can be triggered at any time in life. i started to get bad anxiety from the age of 20. i'll live with it all my life i now realise, to varying degrees. yours may disappear again as quickly as it came. i'd say post covid you might see your anxiety drop off, maybe even before. CBT is great , also plenty of books out there and of course being open about it to people. it's something i would never discuss for years because mental health was laughed at really, but i'm much more open about it now. take care, hope you manage ok with it
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