Posted by Vincent_QC on June 13, 2013, at 10:57:40
In reply to Re: New PDoc RX Lamictal for severe anxiety... » Vincent_QC, posted by gadchik on June 13, 2013, at 10:33:35
> Once my anxiety got under control, and I took care to sleep well, eat well, exercise, my heart just went back to normal. The heart cath is invasive and expensive. I also had a heart ct scan with the dye, and an ultrasound of my heart, stress test, and an enzyme check, ekg...so many tests, and no cause but anxiety. Crazy what anxiety does to the body. But I was obsessed with my heart and whether it was beating too slow or too fast, I couldnt breathe sometimes and felt as if an elephant was on my chest.
Oh ok!!! But what did you do to have your anxiety under control?
Yes anxiety can do crazy things... The hardest part of it it's to deal with the symptoms and try to not worry about them but in my case the heart obsession is out of control and feed the anxiety all the time. I did try to learn some tips to manage my heart obsession on therapy but it never work... So to avoid the most I can the heart symptoms I tend to rely too much on the propranolol and clonazepam... And with that heart obsession and all those symptoms I can say that dependence to a beta blocker can occur and it's the same type of dependence than the benzo meds...
I have so many bad habits, I mean I know that smoking and not eating enough and choose poor foods choices and not be physical active is bad for my heart, but I feel stuck and cannot start to make good moves to at least give a chance to my body to not develop a heart disease...
Anyway, maybe you can give to me some tips about how to manage that heart obsession?
I'm so tired of taking my blood pressure all the time at home and also have a fixation on my heart rate and chest pain...
Thanks!
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