Dog1216 back at it again with anxiety, or something else?

Good to hear from you.

You mentioned 5 HTP which net says is a health food pill. Years ago when I felt like I couldn't take doctor medicine because of my mistake and my psychiatrist's, I visited health food stores. I compared it to drinking water.

webMD.com says: "Taking 5-HTP by mouth seems to improve symptoms of depression in some people. It might work as well as some prescription antidepressant drugs. ...there isn't enough reliable information to say whether it might be helpful."

You said, "have been feeling horribly dizzy all day at work for the last 2 months" WebMD said side effects can included "drowsiness."

You said zaps, healthline.com said, "Brain shakes are sensations that people sometimes feel when they stop taking certain medications, especially antidepressants. You might also hear them referred to as “brain zaps,” “brain shocks,” “brain flips,” or “brain shivers.”

You said, "I can't really tell if it'd 5 htp making me feel so hazy but I remember zoloft did too back when I used to take it way back when. I'm not sure if I should continue taking it or if I should stop. I worry I'm going to pass out all the time from the extreme dizziness and sometimes brain zaps. Everything looks odd. It feels so alien to be in this state and unnatural, I wonder if it's anxiety or something is wrong with me.. I don't want to end up at the doctors forever again. I've quit alcohol, coffee, cut back sugar severely, eat way more healthy, sleep more and exercise plenty. Yet I'm not really seeing great improvements. I feel like giving up sometimes and crawling into a hole."

Mayoclinic.com says symptoms of anxiety include:

Feeling nervous, restless or tense; Having a sense of impending danger, panic or doom; Having an increased heart rate
Breathing rapidly (hyperventilation)' Sweating; Trembling; Feeling weak or tired;
Trouble concentrating or thinking about anything other than the present worry
Having trouble sleeping; Experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) problems
Having difficulty controlling worry; Having the urge to avoid things that trigger anxiety.

Do you have that?

It's good to see you back on the board.

You said, "These relapses did go away 3 times now in the past, so I hope it won't be forever... but I can't seem to get it out of my head is it anxiety, or is it something medical (meaning the extreme dizziness and sensitivity to light) i have so many things in mind. Vertigo, BVT which is a vision misalignment, sleep apnea, seizures, neurological disorders, blood pressure issues.. there's so many things that could be wrong :/"

So, you're saying it could be physical or psychological. I would pick one and go see that type of doctor, then visit the other type. One problem at a time, and be positive about that problem. These problems can be corrected if you are determined enough to see to that.

You said, "Im getting it checked out. It's just very hard being at work and feeling trapped the whole shift cause I feel so bad and dizzy."

It's good to know that you are going to get it taken care of.

I wanted to see my general practitioner this week for by new diabetes blood sugar pills that I've been taking for the past 5 or 6 days. It was causing me some problems and I didn't want to keep taking it because of that and I had stopped it for several days.

I didn't go Monday because of situations that were occurring, I didn't go Tuesday for the same reason, Wednesday things were occurring and I wasn't sure I was going to get there then. Then I started to think, "When are you going to the doctor for this?" And then I thought, "When I feel like it."

I knew I needed to go because I was off medicine that lowered blood sugar and that I was eventually going to go, I just didn't know when. So, sometimes you just have to feel like it. I also never gave up on the idea that this is important for my health, and that I am responsible for my health and I need to be on some kind of medicine that lowers blood sugar.

It's just that I needed to go on a day that I felt like it. And it was today at about 3 p.m. I'm proud that I went. Oh, and I was positive that I could get over that latest hurdle.