What Should I Do About Exhaustion And Intermittent Nausea Leading To High Anxiety Episodes?

Posted on Fri, 22 Apr 2022

Question: Ok, thanks. 65 year old male 195 lb 5 foot 7 hypertension controlled . anxiety meds. Since Friday have been feeling exhausted with mild nausea off and on. Always tend to sweat more than I used to but more since Friday, Feeling this way has triggered a few high anxiety episodes. Breathing fine, no chest symptoms. What should I do?

Answered by Dr. Bhanu Partap (11 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Please refer to the detailed answer below

Detailed Answer:

Hello,

These symptoms are most likely because of your increased stress and anxiety levels.

Stress or anxiety triggers our sympathetic system which in turn increases heart rate as well as blood pressure which in turn causes unease sense of fatigue or exhaustion, this becomes a viscous cycle.

It’s important to control your stress levels and this can be done with the help of yoga/meditation. If that doesn’t work then medicine along with behavior therapy is the next approach.

Just relax and things will settle for you. And also if you are not a diabetic then kindly get your HBa1C levels checked.

Hope to have been helpful.
Regards,
Dr. Bhanu Partap

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