Does it sound like anxiety?
Hi! This might be a little long but I will start off by saying that I do have Graves’ disease, and I am a slightly anxious person by nature. I’m going to be 30 this year and I struggled with social anxiety pretty bad in high school but got myself a lot better since then.
Recently I have had lightheadedness that has gotten bad- lightheaded, light sensitivity, hot flashes, and all those symptoms like I’m about to pass out (however I have never passed out, just all those symptoms leading up to it). It gives me a ton of anxiety feeling like this now as I’m scared to do anything from fear of passing out. Nothing often do I actually feel dizzy, just wonky/off balance. I would usually get lightheaded if I had period cramps and my period has started becoming irregular with prolonged bleeding. But these lightheaded symptoms are now affecting me when I go anywhere, if I’m up too long on my feet, when I’m driving and even if I’m relaxing at home on the couch sometimes. I’m not on my period and it’s happening worse than ever now. I am on 20mg propranolol for tachycardia (hasn’t effected the lightheadedness), just started 25mg sertraline almost 2 weeks ago. I am also on the nexplanon implant and trying to get that taken out soon due to my irregular cycle.
I’ve had so much bloodwork come back normal, hormones, iron, all normal. ECGs haven’t always been “super normal” I was told but my 24hr holter monitor came back normal. I’m waiting on 24hr urine metanephrines results and going to have an echocardiogram soon. I was on sertraline a couple of years ago and it worked so quickly and it’s not working the same as it did. I was doing horse shows last summer and living my best life, I have a wonderful bf, great friends and coworkers and I’m so close with my mom. I’m just at such a loss and wondering if anyone can relate to this. Thank you to whoever took the time to read!