So. For the past few months it's been hell as I've experienced more random symptoms than I can count on my hands and self-diagnosed myself with every major disease. But two neurologists and two GP's are telling me it's anxiety, so I can either trust the voice in my head or the four medical professionals. I'm writing these in case people search here about physical symptom and are wondering if it's possibly anxiety (that's what I did).

**Chest Pain / Tightness** - This was the first symptom, and it is like an uncomfortable tightness right in the heart area. I actually went to the ER twice about it because I thought I was having a heart attack. It started off happening once a week for a few minutes, at times where I was stressed but got worse to where it was happening randomly daily for 1-2 hours. Now I feel it's constantly there but in the background, and disappears when I'm not thinking about it. I've seen cardiologists and done heart scans and blood tests and my heart is healthy.

**Feeling of Doom** - Is usually accompanied by another symptom. Feels like I'm going to die and that's the only thing i can focus on. 

**Fatigue** - This was also an early symptom, an extreme wave of fatigue that randomly happens during the day. When it happens I can only rest and it's impossible to 'battle through'. Also sometimes happens when I wake up.

**Non-Restorative Sleep** - Still happens, I'd wake up feeling like I hadn't slept at all. 

**Nerve Sensations** - Random nerve sensations, like flashes that last for 1-5 seconds. These started happening everywhere, on my fingers, hands, arms, legs, upper and lower spine, teeth, shoulders, etc. It happened for about three to four days, and then stopped completely. That's what made me see the neurologist and did a MRI (which was clear).

**Extreme Head Pressure / Headache** - Started happening late afternoon, went away went I slept, then repeated the next afternoon. After about 3 days it got so bad I went to ER as I thought it was cancer or something (CT scan was clear). It felt like an immense pressure inside my head, similar to the chest sensation. At one point in the ER it got so bad I had to take pain medication (which made it go away). This symptom also cleared after a few days.

**Pain on Sides** - Hard to explain but felt like a hollow feeling on the bottom of my rib when sleeping on my side that felt like a 'caving in' sensation. Wasn't painful just extremely uncomfortable, and lasted for a few days.

**Foot Sensation** - Pain on the bottom of my left foot only when walking. Went away after a couple of days.

**Hair Loss on Calf** - Noticed identical patches of hair loss above my ankle. Might have been from tight socks

**Shortness of Breath** - This usually happened with the chest feeling but it felt like I couldn't complete my breath, like it only went to 90%. 

**Nausea** - Usually also happens with the chest feeling and head pressure. Sometimes I'd feel like throwing up but never did, or feel like sneezing but inside my head.

**Tension Headache** - Only happened once but was intense, feels like a rubber band around your head. Seemed to get better after a shower.

**Disassociation / Loss of Self** - This is probably the scariest one, and happened when I was at the peak of having these random symptoms. I've felt disassociation before but this felt far worse, it felt like I was going to go insane or lose my mind. My family didn't feel real, and I felt like I was myself but losing grip on reality. The only thing I could do was sleep, walk and take a bath. I could still function properly and have conversations but there was no energy there whatsoever, and I was unable to find anything funny. The 'fear' part of my brain was on alert 24/7. I've felt depersonalization before where I felt distant or out of my head but this felt like I was in my head and losing my mind. This happened for multiple days and I still occasionally feel like things aren't 'real' or that I'm in a dream. Note this symptom happened after I started taking sertraline, so it's possible it was connected to that.

Since I started taking sertraline the symptoms have gone down, and the only ones that sometimes happen are the chest tightness and fatigue. I've also been experiencing night sweats but that could be from covid which I got last week (and funnily enough had hardly any symptoms).

Let me know if you have experienced anything similar, think this it's something else, or found it helpful :)