Anxiety Related

[Gomez126]

Just looking for some answers.  I have been diagnosed with anxiety and have panic attacks here and there since I was 22.  Seems like I go through times in my life where it is worse than others.  This time it is taking on different forms and makes me think if I have a brain tumor, or something else is wrong with me.  It's funny how after 15 years I still question if this is stress or anxiety related!  Lately, I have been all over the place.  Feeling wicked brain fog, pressure on my head, can't concentrate, having people repeat what they say to me more than once, can not focus, like tunnel vision.  I just feel out of it.  Lately, I get these surges that come through my body like small panic attacks.  They come and go and it's without warning.  Just major pressure on my head, squinting and my vision is strange.  Also, my writting has gotten worse and I have to check spelling on words all the time.  I am just not with it.  Meaningless stuff staying in my head forever, not letting things go, wicked sensitive on things.  Very up and down.  Not feelinng good about my appearance.  Seem very irritable lately. I was on laxapro and I have posted on here about a left ache under my rib cage.  I am wondering if all this is stress/anxiety related.  I stopped taking laxapro because I heard it can cause thinning hair.  My hair is thin enough!  Is this true?  Is their any other medicine I can take when i am feeling these things?  I would like to find something to take when I am feeling these symptoms and not everyday! Anybody going or gone through stuff like this?

[Gomez126]

Yes, he knows I did.  Maybe I should n ot have stopped taking it.  Like I said I just heard and read some things on laxapro I did not like.  I stopped taking it in like the begining of July! Everything was fine at first.  I have gone and had a MRI on my side for the left ach.  It is like a dull ache and just feels soar.  One Doctor said even though nothing came up in the MRI, he thinks it might be a pinched nerve.  I had a colonoscopy last year because my Grandfather died of colon cancer, so I have to start having them to make sure everything is fine.  They did say I had diverticulitis.  I just recently went back to the gatreonologists and he thinks it is muscle related on that side.  I am taking meloxicam at night now for about 2 weeks.  I really don't know if it is helping with that.  The vision just feels like I see like floaters in my eyes every once in awhile.  Feels like dream like sometimes.  As for my writting, I am left handed! LOL.  But I have noticed over the last couple years it has gotten worse and people at work have jokinly brought it up!  It like I am rushing when I am writting, etc.  Tellling ya, the symptoms and stuff I feel daily, it amazes me how I get through the day sometimes.  Just would like to figure it out and would love to take something when I am feeling like this.    

[RubyWitch]

Anxiety and panic can, and often does, come and go in cycles depending on what's happening..............or not happening in our lives. Sometimes they just come out of left field.
What you've described sounds, for the most part, like classic anxiety/panic, but there are a couple things that I think you should bring to your doctors attention. The vision changes and the changes in your writing.
Many of us have experienced these types of symptoms, but only your doctor can dx what the cause is and what medication might help relieve them.
Does your doctor know you stopped the Lexapro? And that ache under your rib cage? Talked to him/her about that yet?
I hope you'll let us know how you're doing, OK?
I wish you the best
Peace
Greenlydia