Anxiety Disorder & Panic Attack

[oldskool80]

Encountered a possible exposure with CSW (unprotected vaginal sex) back in June 2008.
Since then, anxiety has killing me & fear of contracting HIV keep playing in head.

Quit smoking (cold turkey) in end Oct 2008 due to chest tightness problem.
Considered as hard smoker, 1 to 2 packs per day.

Done several test:-

1. HIV 1&2 (ELISA) - 6 wks, 19 wks, 25 wks, 35 wks and came back negative.
2. STD's test - at 35 wks.
    VDRL/TPHA - negative
    Chlamydia IgG - negative
    Herpes 1 IgG - positive (most in population)
    Herpes 2 IgG - negative
3. Full body blood screen (thyroid, RA, ESR, liver, kidney, urine) done at 6 wks, 19 wks, 25 wks. and came back
    normal.


I had many symptoms :-
Tingling in hand & feet, muscle aches, stiff neck, sleep disturbances, excessive sweating (especially during my sleep day & night), muscle twitches all over body (when muscle at rest), headache, lightheadedness, lack of concentration, fatigue, tremors in hand & feet and many more.

Doc said that the symptoms due to nicotine withdrawal and will take time to decrease (probably 2-5 years for hard smokers) and he also mentioned that i got high anxiety level as well as panic attack.

All my test results are reliable according to people in other community.

Can i forget about the HIV & STDs infection and move on??
Anxiety & guilty feeling keep coming back when i start thinking about the possible infection again & again...

Pls help me...

[oldskool80]

thanks for your comment...

anxiety is still anxiety...
some people are very difficult to get rid of it...it's mind trick right??
anyway...i still try to cope with the severe nicotine withdrawal symptoms...
especially the high level of anxiety & depression....
it seems that i will have a long journey to get myself back as before...

wish me luck buddy....
hopefully that my anxiety level will go down asap
w/out taking xanax etc....

god bless....

[silverberg]

wow SORRY to hear about what havppened to you!! but may I say you have some GREAT insight to whats going on with you. (please take time to read your post, the one above, that you just wrote) and ask yourself what would I tell someone who posted that!

You actually answered your own question!!  EVERYTHING (labs) came back as expected! and Dr. told you about the tobacco. NOW IS TIME TO MOVE ON! you know you made a mistake, you saw a Dr. and labs all good, Now is the time time to tell your Anxiety, My questions are answered, and go back to being your reqular self. wish you the best of luck, keep us posted on how your doing.