Extreme health anxiety on resort trip - any tips?
About to leave a resort in the DR. 26 year old male. Drank pretty heavily most days and every single morning I woke up with severe anxiety, chest tightness, left arm discomfort, and PVC-type zaps in my chest. Heart rate was steady, normal ECG on my Whoop, could take deep breaths fine — but I was absolutely convinced something was terribly wrong every single morning.
I’m on 40mg fluoxetine which I think made the mornings significantly worse. Also prescribed 20mg propranolol as needed for anxiety. Every afternoon I felt fine (once I caught a buzz haha). Classic hangxiety pattern but genuinely one of the worst experiences of my life. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. Crazy part is I’ve had a full cardiac workup - stress echocardiogram, ecg, labs, xray, CT - all normal.
What should’ve been paradise was turned to torture.
Still convinced as I write this that I’m going to drop dead. Anyone else deal with this level of health anxiety after drinking? How do you manage it? Looking into CBT/therapy when I get home.