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Pain Med causing anxiety????

Hello, I am new to this section.  I have been diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis and was taking 120mg of Roxicodone a day.  Roxi is oxycodone with no tylenol.  Anyway, my doc up my dosage from 60mg a day to the 120 about 2 months ago.  One night I took 150mg instead of the 120mg.  I began to think about overdosing and before you know it my heart started beating weird.  I got up and tried to walk it off and boom my legs were weak and I began shaking all over.  I almost went to the ER but since I have always had some anxiety I got on the internet and read and finally convinced myself that I was having a panic attack.  I was the WORSE thing that I have ever had.  I went to the doctor the next day, didn't mention pain meds, and he confirmed after a EKG that he thought that was my problem.  This woke me up and I am down to only 30mg a day of the roxi.  I AM quitting.  But now even at this level when I take the pill I began to listen to my heart and my breathing and I start having shorter breaths and before you know it my heart is pounding.  Not racing but pounding.  At night if I have taken a roxi then it is horrible.  Do you think that this is anxiety, or an allergic reaction to the meds, or something more serious.  I used to be on Zoloft because I worried all of the time, but I have never had this much trouble with anxiety.  It does run heavily in my family.  Please respond as this really worries me.
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bump back to top, need more looks.  lol
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hi i think its more anxierty because you say to listen for heart and your breathing , ive done that myself so good to come off med because long as you stay on it you will always have the fear of it now, and like me every med i take now i get a little anxiety from it because of one pill i took that gave me anxiety so now i look for it with ever med i take. not easy now when am sick i dont want any meds scared my body will go in to over time with anxiety.
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