Is it anxiety/depression?

Question: I have had chronic panic attacks before. I had actually been on Celexa for 2 years and quit cold turkey in April 2006. I had been fine until August when I started to have vertigo/light headedness. I have had it since. At this point also I would be weepy crying for no reason. So I went to try the celexa again and it made me more anxious and when I wasn't having an attack, I was falling asleep. So they took me off this after 4 days. I swore I would not go on the anti depressants again. Even though I don’t feel anxious, Since then I am still light headed everyday. I feel bouts of fatigue throughout the day, chills, tingleys all over, chest pain, shortness of breath, constipation, and circulation problems that involve my fingertip swelling occasionally and my hand and feet turn purple or sometimes reddish. Some times they are really cold other times they become very hot. I have had numerous tests. A MRI of the head. An abdominal Cat scan. An EKG on my heart not to mention several blood tests. The only thing that has come up is my bilirubin has elevated to 2.7, LIver enzymes are perfect they say. I have had a hepatitis profile done and everything is normal, I am even still immune to Hep B. My doctor seems to think my symptoms have become asymptomatic and that my anxiety is coming out in different ways. Has anyone else felt like this? Can My symptoms that happen everyday really be anxiety/depression?

Answers:
I suggest you continue to see your doctor for follow up care. And maybe even seek out counseling. If you have had a multitude of tests and they come out normal there could be many reasons why. Sometimes our minds play tricks on our body and what we feel is real, but at the same time there is nothing wrong. That is called hypochondria. That's not to say that is what you are experiencing, just something thrown out there that you may want to consider. It's common when you have anxiety/panic attack issues. My boyfriend has the same problem. But also consider that with the anti-depressants, you may be having side effects still from withdrawing from them since you took them for several years. Another thing to consider is Fibroymyalgia which displays symptoms of wide spread pain and sometimes numbness in various parts for your body. This is usually after a period of time when you have had trouble sleeping. So I ask do you sleep ok at night?

Hope you get better.

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yes they can be. You have had a lot of testing done and had there been other problems they probably would have surfaced. You may want to try a different combination of drugs

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