Of course we can't accurately diagnose you from a distance even if we are medical professionals, and none of us on here are. All we can offer are things for you to look into. To me, as a long-time anxiety sufferer, you have developed a pretty good case of chronic anxiety that is making you oversensitive to looking at every thing that feels a little off and focusing all your energy on it. That turns little things into big things, and since you've been doing this a long time, it's been building for a long time. You don't mention anything about therapy with a psychologist who specializes in anxiety treatment, though you may have done this and didn't mention it, but it's what I would recommend. I'd also say it does sound like the doctoring you've had might -- and I say might -- have contributed to you getting this problem. The mere presence of h pylori isn't a sign of disease. We all have it. If our immunes systems and digestive systems are functioning properly, the bacteria moves in and out of our body and doesn't take up residence in sufficient quantities to cause harm. When it does, it's usually in the form of inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract and ulcers. Short of harm you don't need antibiotics for this, but nobody here can say if you needed this treatment or not. What can be said is that some people react very badly to antibiotics and lose so much of their beneficial organisms, which antibiotics kill along with the harmful ones, that the immune system goes badly awry. This affects digestion adversely, as these organisms are essential to proper digestion, and also mental health in some cases, as these beneficial organisms are also essential to a properly functioning brain. Because in this description you say the anxiety started after the experience you had at 16 and after the antibiotics, you may be one of those people. Any of us can be, it's just hard to know, because my generation, the baby boomers, were a generation given antibiotics constantly for everything, even things we didn't have, from a very young age, and probably not coincidentally we suffered an epidemic of mental disorders and digestive disorders that our parents never had. This has continued ever since. Recently, the medical establishment has finally recognized what natural medicine has been yelling about for decades and called for drastically reduced use of antibiotics. Some gastroenterologists have gone as far as transplanting fecal matter from healthy individuals into sick people with pretty good results, though not yet for mental illness (but it's coming). The best most of us can do is bombard our systems after using antibiotics with the available probiotics we can buy as supplements from the refrigerated section of the best health foods store in your area. For digestive problems such as yours, for example, bifido-bacteria can be very beneficial. A lot of what you're describing sounds like digestive problems, including your original problem, and these can usually be solved with much less invasive medications, such as aloe vera juice and DGL (a form of licorice) and peppermint oil caps and many other plants people have been using successfully forever for these problems, and by changing your diet and exercise program and relaxing your system with exercise and meditation. If I were you, I'd try a combination of these modalities and focus hard on anxiety therapy and see if you can't get your mind back to working in a more relaxed way again. You're still very young and therefore resilient and flexible, so I think you can fix this. Good luck. Oh, and by the way, your regular doc can't actually diagnose peripheral neuropathy, and nothing you say is bothering you sounds like it. Neurontin is often used as a relaxant like benzos are, but peripheral neuropathy is diagnosed by a neurologist, not a regular doc. It's most common in diabetics when they get older, and you're neither a diabetic nor old. It can also be caused by pinched nerves or by overdoses of B6, but you don't probably have those at your age either. Doesn't mean you don't have it, but I doubt it. I've been tested for it, and I know what the tests are like, and you haven't had them. Peace.