I think I might be having Anxiety Attacks.

[Riot_Queen]

I'm 19 going on 20.
I have a 9 month old Daughter and I'm 5 months pregnant with a boy.
I'm not a single mom, but I'm sure as heII living like one because their daddy don't do hardly NOTHIN to help me with the baby OR cleaning up after himself.

I have OCD.
I haven't actually be diagnosed, but I know what it is, and I'm positive that I'm suffering from it.

I think I've been having anxiety attacks lately.
I dunno if my pregnancy is what REALLY egged it on or not.

I had a really bad diarhea episode back in Jan/Feb of this year and I started drinking alot of gatorade.
After a couple of weeks I had to stop drinking it because I started getting this really weird feeling in my chest. Like an abnormal heart beat.
Kinda like when you think about something REALLY exciting, like a upcoming trip to somewhere awesome and your heart jumps. Like that.
Somedays it happens, somedays it doesn't, and somedays it happens several times throughout the day.

I've been getting WICKED hot flashes where I can't cool down if I stood right under the A/C vent or put a bag of ice on my neck which usually works if I'm just hot from being outside.
And that's usually followed by extreme anseyness and I start sweating bullet.
My heart races, I get light-headed or dizzy and I can't sit still because I'm very uncomfortable.

I know some of it started after I had my daughter because of my OCD with a combination of I guess anxiety, I'm extremely paranoid, even with her being as old as she is now going on 9 months, of her just stopping breathing.
So I keep myself up most of the night because I gatta keep checking and keep checking and keep checking to make sure she's breathing.
It's exhausting but if I don't do it, then I'll NEVER get to bed.
And sometimes I end up waking myself up just to go check.

But it's been getting REAL bad with what I guess I'll call anxiety attacks, lately.
I'm not really sure what's causing them or how to make them quit.

I'm constantly stressed out with the fact that I'm raising my daughter by myself when I shouldn't have to raise her by myself when her father has days off from work to HELP ME!
And I'm always thinking about and I'm scared of that I'm gunna have to raise our son by myself right along with my daughter.

My pregnancy is already alot of stress on my body because my daughter was only 4 months old when I ended up getting pregnant again, and now that she's crawling and getting into EVERYTHING, and I'm getting bigger and bigger, I'm exhausted and I never get enough sleep.

I'm losing weight.
Prolly alot faster than I think I am because I've got to be gaining weight because the baby's growing, but I'm still losing on average about 2-4 pounds every ob/gyn visit. Which I've been seeing her about every 2-3 weeks. And that's not good.
I know weightloss plays a roll in anxiety.

Anyone know what's wrong with me?

[Riot_Queen]

I'm a member of the Pregnancy 18-34 forum, maybe it would be better now that I'm pretty sure what my issue is, if anyone else knows on there if there's anything safe for me to take.

I'm seeing my ob/gyn on thursday, and I'm deff gunna bring it up with her.

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

sounds to me like anxiety, your body has been throught a first child didnt have time to get back and now your pg again , yes them hormones are going crazy and will cause these feeling., wy dont you go the the pg page on here and ask them there area ferw on anxiety meds while pg i think they could really help you , but it dose sound like lots stress.

[ILADVOCATE]

See an OB-GYN first as there are of course anti-anxiety medications and anti-ocd medications but they would have to determine what would be safe during pregnancy. Then you could see a psychiatrist. Gatorade helps adjust electrolytes. If you are experiencing a potential disruption in the number of electrolytes (which can happen from  diarrhea but they'd have to determine the cause of that as well) they should do a blood test for that and while they are at it probably full blood work would be a good idea. There could be any number of things going on and it would be best to have the OB-GYN do full
tests
and then the anxiety-ocd issue could be addressed by a psychiatrist.