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I forgot to say...
I spent alot of time and money taking care of the syptoms... GERD, and HBP, and Tachycardia, and Migraines and body pain... The syptoms were continuous and gradually getting worse. I was constantly at the doctor or hospital...
Once I started taking care of the underlying stress disorder, all those things got better.
Now I go for my gyn and mammogram once a year. I see a therapist twice a month at this point.
A major turning point for me was discontinuing the beta blocker, so I could feel the tachycardia of being triggered by stress. In light of the stress disorder, all my symptoms made sense.
Hello
I would take a look at two things.
First:
I would look at any med that says basically "I am changing how a muscle works"...
Like a medicine that changes how your heart beats.
Or a Beta blocker, that changes the muscle tension of the blood vessels.
Second:
I would also be suspicious of a stress disorder.
If you had been in a trauma situation in the past, such as a car accident, war, sexual abuse, bullying, etc. You may be suffering from not having processed the trauma.
The reason I say this is because your health issues ALL seem to point to stress.
Gerd is related to stress (protonix).
Xanax is given for anxiety syptoms (related to stress).
I went to my MD for my heart beating very hard, sometimes. My blood pressure was high, so she put me on a betablocker. That made my Tachycardia better, and it controlled my BP.
But it covered up my PTSD.
I had alot of muscle twitches around my eyes, and it was to the point, every new situation would get my eye muscles to twitching.
I also worked in the Eye Care field, so I had ample opportunity to understand that these twitches were stress related.
Long story short, I am in EMDR and DNMS therapy, for my stress disorder. I am doing so well, that I have been able to discontinue all my meds (for GERD, BP, Tachycaria, anxiety, and muscle spasms).
I rarely have symptoms of stress anymore.