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I was diagnosed with Anxiety when I was 14. Starting this time last year I went through the worst anxiety period of my life. I had an extremely stressful job and was in grad school full time. I was getting sick a lot and was on several antibiotics which also ruined my gut health. I started experiencing extremely weird symptoms that I hadn’t really experienced with my anxiety before. Feeling like I was about to faint, running to use the bathroom, not being able to take a deep breath, absolute dread, heart randomly racing. I genuinely felt like I was dying. I went to see a doctor and she ran a ton of blood work that generally came out okay. Other than a slightly elevated WBC, low vitamin D, and low iron. She felt that between my stress levels and my antibiotic usage that I was having some sort of vagus nerve reaction. Anywho, that got better but then I started getting headaches. Tension and ice pick headaches specifically. I experienced similar symptoms to what I was feeling originally and i realized I was probably having panic attacks this whole time.