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MTHFR anxiety

so this might be kind of a long shot, but has anyone else every experienced this kind of anxiety before? i've been having the worst spells of anxiety in my entire life (especially health anxiety). i can barely get out of bed sometimes, i can barely sleep, i constantly have a lump in my throat feeling, i get so anxious my vision goes blurry, my limbs tingle, i feel like my life is ending. its so hard. i'm struggling. about 2 or 3 years ago i got diagnosed with the mthfr gene mutation, (i was going through basically this same thing, tho i barely remember. it was months until i was diagnosed, so the entire 5-6 months is basically a blur for me.) when i got diagnosed, i was also low on vitamin d (about 17 when i was supposed to be at a minimum of 30) and i cut out folic acid, got put on vraylar, and took vitamin d supplements. within what felt like days (maybe im wrong) i felt completely normal again, like a new person. unfortunately i was stupid, and like 5 months after eating like normal i started to eat bad again, and lost my meds due to insurance issues. i was completely fine for a long time, like 1-2 years. but recently i moved, and all of a sudden its hitting me again, hard. i stopped eating folic acid completely a month ago today. but i'm still feeling absolutely horrible. i just got bloodwork done, everything was perfect, im healthy. but cholesterol was a tad high, and my vitamin d was at 21, so lower than it should be. i just got put on a supplement, once a week for vitamin d. i started two days ago. i haven't gotten vraylar yet because it has to be approved by my new insurance, so it's taking a hot minute unfortunately. they gave me a different med for the meantime. it's helping i think, its only been a few days. but today was a bad day. it just scared me. i'm scared it won't fix this time, im doomed, and it's karma for me taking my health for granted and eating like shit again. i'm so scared all the time, i constantly feel like something's wrong with my body and i spiral and it's been a cycle. if anyone has EVER experienced anxiety like this, how long did it take to improve after cutting out folic acid? did you do anything else for it? am i expecting too much and i just need to let my body take its course? i'm sorry this is so long. i'm scared.

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