Hey everyone, I am a 24 year old male who decided to quit vaping. I am overweight but I don’t drink and I haven’t done drugs. I honestly didn’t think it would be that hard to quit since I was doing it daily for about 6 months at the time. I quit and about a couple days later I was having chest pains, shortness of breath, brain fog, and other symptoms. For the next two weeks I went to the ER three times. Everything time I was told I was fine. They did put a heart monitor on me for a week. I saw my primary and he shared with me that there was no concern with my heart. He did share that that this sounds like classic anxiety and prescribed me some medications (lexapro and metoprolol). Lexapro didn’t do much for me but take away my anger and irritability, but the side effects didn’t outweigh the benefits. The metoprolol did lower my heart rate. I than was switched to Wellbutrin and clonodine by my psychiatrist. I start Wellbutrin tomorrow. The reason I am sharing this is that my chest tightness hasn’t gone away. My psychiatrist shared that after an episode of 2 weeks of high anxiety with panic attacks that it can take 6-12 months before the body gets back to normal. I have been taking supplements and short exercises to help manage. I’ve only experience high anxiety once before in my first year of college.
My question is how do I get rid of the anxiety, chest tightness, and will I go back to myself of before all this?