Taking lexapro for anxiety, but still waiting for diagnosis

[Maddy_boy89]

Hey guys started having these weird episodes mid February 2015. They felt really scary as if I was having a heart attack. I was realesed from the E.R. with anxiety and stress palpitations.

I dieted and excersised with my usual daily workload until around June 2015. I controlled my chronic "anxiety" episodes with yoga and self coping techniques. During this time I would only eat maybe once a day and skipped alot of meals with exercise. I started losing weight in a very dangerous way. 220lbs to 180lbs in 4 months.

Come June I began to experience shortness of breath and fatigue. In and out of E.R.'s because my episodes grew worse, I was finally kept for observation over night in July 2015. I was also given a potassium tablet and treated for dehydration. My heart dropped to the 30s during sleep. An echocardiogram was administered showing no dysfunctions. I was sent home and given a persripction for lexapro after one night. My hospital cardiologist set up a check up with him at his pra

Nine weeks later I'm still on lexapro and have obtained a primary doctor.



  

[Maddy_boy89]

Yes I'm hoping it's a mental problem but it could be a physical one.  I'm still in the process of diagnoses but please read my repost.  Thanks

[Maddy_boy89]

I'm sorry I accidentally posted this unfinished. I reposted a finished one,. I'm sorry but I'm new,  and can't delete this post

[Paxiled]

I'm a bit confused -- were you diagnosed with anxiety?  Do you feel anxious, filled with irrational fear?  Because you might have this, but you describe some actual physiological problems that haven't been diagnosed yet.  You also describe some erratic behavior -- you must know that the more you exercise the more you have to eat, not less, to keep up your necessary levels of nutrition and so you don't deplete the stores you need to recover.  This will lead to injury and some of the things you're experiencing.  So again, anxiety problem or are you scared because of the possible health problem?  I only ask because Lexapro would be a treatment for a chronic anxiety problem, but not for a physiological problem or a one-time heart disturbance.  And even if it is an anxiety problem, usually people are sent to therapy before being put on a medication if they know what they're doing when the problem as you describe it isn't chronic and therefore hasn't been treated at all or diagnosed by an expert in psychology.  If you fill in these details you will get better responses here and in your own mind, I think.