Anxiety and depression after a finding

[silviaordonez]

Good morning,

My name is Silvia. I am a 31 year old female and I am having severe anxiety and depression due to an echo done that was normal but the only finding was mild pulmonary Hypertension. I am a natural researcher and went to the internet to do research and what I found was traumatizing and I felt I wanted to die with every line I was reading about the disease. I have read thousands of sources and done plenty of exams but they are normal. My cardiologist said I have PH even though they other tests were correct. That scared me a lot and I talked to a friend who is a doctor and told me that it was the only finding and there is no enough evidence in my exams that could have concluded I have PH. However, for an anxious person putting that in your mind  when you have a report in your hands that says something is wrong is hard for a compulsive mind. PH is a rare disease and it is 17 cases for 1.000.000 people. However, and anxious person like me o I am one of those 17 out of the million. I was a little anxious since January due to the death of my hamster and that triggered my biggest fear which is death and illnesses. Therefore, I started to go to the doctor to have lots of test to check on my health and I started to have different symptoms of different things I think I created. It was winter and I had a little allergic reaction to it maybe that is why the echo was showing pulmonary high results I DO NOT KNOW but I cannot sleep, I feel hopeless, I feel I am going to die soon or that my quality of life is going to decrease and I will not be able to do anything :-(. I had to go to the E.R for a panic attack and the psychiatric put me on fluvoxamin and klonopin. I feel tiredddddddd but I have a few questions.
Is fluvoxamin the one upsetting my stomach?
is fluvoxamin the one giving me kind of muscular pain in my back and front neck?
I had the insomnia reaction to fluvoxamin so I am taking it in the morning instead of the evening.
why do I feel that I need to sigh all the time. Like if there is not enough air in my lungs and I need to sigh.... is it the depression or anxiety?
Could have been the anxiety the cause of the off reading of PH in the echo? I was really nervous and shaking the day of the test.
I do not understand what is going on with me I am new with this and my body does not want to react to anything. I do not wanna do anything, nothing interest me.. my partner since to be concerned but not much comprehending to what I am going through.

Any advice?

Thank you
Silvia

[Paxiled]

Antidepressants often have the side effect of causing muscular pain and insomnia and digestive problems -- very common side effects.  Part of the reason is that these drugs use the same pathway into the brain as magnesium, so if you take magnesium at the same time as the drug the drug won't absorb well and the drug inhibits the absorption of magnesium, which is responsible for relaxing us and our muscles and nervous system.  Sometimes you can solve this problem by taking a good magnesium taureate or citrate supplement to compensate, but it has to be taken at a different time than the antidepressant or benzo.  Other than that, Luvox isn't used much in the US, so most Americans have little experience with it.

[RubyWitch]

I can understand and completely relate to your anxiety regarding heart issues. I've had several of my own that sent my anxiety levels off the charts.

While we can help you with your anxiety, I think you would best be served right now by going to our Heart Health Forum and talk with Jerry_NJ. He is the community leader of that forum and is very knowledgeable about the type of heart issues and tests you're dealing with. He is also very understanding about anxiety.

Please understand that I'm not blowing you off, but most of us on this forum are just not as "heart savvy" as Jerry.
You are ALWAYS welcome to come back here for more help with your anxiety.

You can just copy and paste your post into the Heart Health Forum.

I hope I can offer just a little reassurance first. You are under the care of a cardiologist and you must trust that he/she would order any further testing if they deemed it necessary. I also understand all the "research" you did, but without adequate medical training, looking up cardiac symptoms can and WILL, as you said yourself, be extremely traumatizing.

Also............talking to a friend, even if he IS a doctor, can be VERY counter productive. He does not have all your test results and the only advice he should have given you was to speak with your cardiologist again. Any more than that is a bit unethical.

I hope you will post in the Heart forum. I think you will get the answers you're looking for there.

I wish you the best and that your anxiety is quickly resolved.
RubyWitch