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In addition, twice now I've had episodes where it felt like my heart stopped or blood pressure plummeted while just laying in bed; I got severe head pressure, ringing ears, numbness and I have fainted. Does anyone else experience this?

Thank you all everyone for responding, it's been really reassuring. I saw my physician today who prescribed venlafaxine for anxiety, and 1mg of ativan to be used as sparingly as possible while the venlafaxine establishes. Anyone have any experiences with those? Thank you both for the tips. My doctor said my heart is fine fortunately, all that's left is to tackle the mental blocks around my anxiety.

Thank you so much!! I will ask my doctor about SSRI options, and I will also try some of the techniques listed.

Recently got diagnosed with pots post-covid. I also have a history of really bad anxiety. My symptoms like to feed into each other and just loop until I have to get my wife to take me to the ER. I get symptoms that feel like imminent heart attacks or strokes, like chest pains, numbness in face and extremities, etc. However they always send me home saying nothing was wrong. Has anyone else experienced this? What works to prevent anxiety? I'm on 25 mg of metoprolol per day. I have a prescription for hydroxyzine which seems to help a marginal amount, but only at doses of about 100 mg, which I'm worried about taking as I do have heart palpitations/compensatory pauses. I'm basically getting constant panic attacks which aggravate my symptoms which then loops and feeds into each other and I can't keep doing this. Thank you in advance for any help.