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New Symptoms possibly linked to panic or something else?

I have already told my story here many times, I've struggled with panic/anxiety for nearly 3 weeks now. In the past 3 days I've been feeling better but what I consistently had was shortness of breath and/or a tightness in my chest along with stabbing chest pains. I saw another doctor who reassured me once again my heart should be ok but he equipped me with a Holter monitor (in less than an hour it'll be done recording it's 24 hours). Problem is, about an hour ago I started feeling a chilling feeling inside the back of my head slowly spread to all over my head, along with numbness in the face. I'm worried if this is something new or part of anxiety/panic. Right now my head feels numb and full. I stopped taking my anxiety medication (clonazepam) about 2 days ago. It was 15 MG total with a dosage of 1 MG 3 times a day as needed, although I was taking it in .5 mg when I needed it. While I have stopped taking that medication, the doctor also said to take 600 MG of ibuprofen every 6 hours to help with the pain for 5 days. I think this is day 3 and I wasn't feeling any issue so I stopped taking that too. When taking the ibuprofen yesterday I felt weird. Any help?
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essentially, I didn't taper off the clonazepam. I just stopped
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I wrote a long response but it was lost because I wasn't logged in. I don't have time tonight to recreate the whole thing, so here is the condensed version.

Essentially, all the "symptoms" you list are not really happening, but anxiety makes you focus on them so much that they tense you up and seem real. There is no numbness, ibuprofen doesn't have any effect on you mentally so it isn't making you weird and the chill is at worst just the result of fear and associated sweating cooling you down, which is the purpose of sweating. I've been there sweating it out for a week then ended up in ER because it was not possible to figure if all those "symptoms" were real or not, but when the ER doc told me I would have been dead if they were real for even a day then I gave it up and the anxiety disappeared. Too bad it isn't that easy for everyone but the only way for you to beat this anxiety will be if you can find something comforting to latch onto instead of the frightening fears which you are stuck with now.

Keep posting because you have limited resources since you are just 16, but you need to see the campus clinic as I mentioned before. You can get amazing relief sometimes just having a face to face with the right person, so you might get a good break from your worries as a result.
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