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    Panic attacks and generalised anxiety

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    For the last 4 years, I’ve suffered from an undiagnosed gastrointestinal illness. After a blood test, I will be seeing a rheumatologist in June. The problem has increased with the continued anxiety and panic attacks I suffer daily. That’s what is causing the anxiety. I can’t control the pain.

    I’ve been to GPs and specialists. When they can’t give me an answer they call it IBS and say it’s because I’m anxious and I just need to meditate and do deep breathing. It makes me really angry.

    I’ve seen a psychologist and we talked about my teenage relationship with my mother, however, this is not the reason I am anxious and sick. I later saw a psychiatrist and he said he believed the pain and illness were causing me the continued panic attacks and anxiety along with the steroid medication I was on for the inflammation. He prescribed me promethazine and quetiapine to help me sleep. I get hyperactive on promethazine so this increased the mania I was experiencing. I refused to take quetiapine.

    Any advice?
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