First of all I’m 25 and 230 lbs, muscular but chunky. No health issues known. I have been Drinking probably every other day or every 3 days for the past few months. A few beers to maybe 6 or 7 just for a good buzz. A few nights a week if that but On the weekends I normally drink most of the day Saturday and keep a buzz going. Since the middle of June I have been having some fireball nips here and there and had a 750 of fireball once during the Saturday a while back. This is the most I have ever drank hard liquor in my life. I rarely would touch it other than a few shots here and there. 

Ok so I know this is Reddit and not the doctors. I already have been in touch with the doctors and I haven’t really gotten a straight forward answer. A little over a month ago on June 29, I was working on my four wheeler outside in the heat, probably 85°. Very slighty hungover, just a woozy feeling. I smashed my finger banging out a wheel bearing. and I ran inside and started washing it off. I remember looking at my nail and kind of freaking myself out that I was gonna lose my nail, which isn’t really that big of a deal but I remember kind of freaking out about it. And all of a sudden I got this wave of blood rushing feeling through my body I got wicked lightheaded, Disoriented and wicked tunnel vision, my heart started racing and I kind of panicked because I have never felt that feeling before. I thought I was going to pass out. I sat in front of a fan And it’s slowly went away. I felt funky for the rest of the day, And that was about it. Fast forward three weeks or so to friday July 23. I Drank Thursday night. Backed my car into a pole before I even started drinking so I was already stressed about that. But I got the same feeling Friday night, just not as severe while I was eating lunch earlier that day, slowly went away and again the feeling freaked me out but it wasn’t as bad as that first time when I hit my finger. Then later on in the night when I was trying to fall asleep, I got that same feeling again and it kept me up for an hour or two and I didn’t sleep good. It was like a disorientation heart racing and tunnel vision feeling. I got like wicked shaky, sudden urge to go to the bathroom, and I remember being kind of panicky about the feeling because again, this is only the third time that it’s happened and I have never felt it before. Going through the weekend I felt OK, I just felt out of it, not myself and just fell off because I was so confused about what the feeling was. At this point I was already looking things up online between strokes and heart attacks and alcohol withdrawals and pretty much every other way that you could possibly die from reading things online. So me being stupid I thought that maybe those feelings that I was getting was withdrawals so that Saturday I had 2 tall twisted tea tall boys and I remember feeling slightly better but I knew I just felt off. So that Monday I go in to work and I was talking to some of the guys about it and one of them said maybe I have high blood pressure and one of them said maybe I have a heat stroke. So with both of those things in my head I was completely freaked out and I started googling more things, and I got that feeling again Monday night couldn’t fall asleep. Woke up Tuesday, went out into the garage to have a cigarette (FYI I never get dizzy from smoking) and as I was coming back inside I got that feeling again pretty bad and I ran upstairs and checked my blood pressure with my mom‘s machine and it was 189/108 and my pulse was like 101. So after seeing that I completely freaked out went to the doctors that day and it went down to 156. She didn’t mention or think that I have high blood pressure. The doctor seem to think thought it was from creatine in a whey protein powder shake I started using a month before this started. So throughout The whole day on Tuesday I kept getting that feeling often on all day. Heart racing, feeling disoriented, just feeling out of it, being shaky, tunnel vision type feeling. It would come and go in waves at first every few minutes and then started spreading out. I pretty much felt like this for the whole week. I would also get extremely emotional feelings when I would feel it because I just wanted to feel normal again. I felt miserable as my appetite was all over the place and if I tried to eat my jaw would tense up and I couldn’t. I slowly got my appetite back a week ago last weekend. Last week I would still get the feelings off and on but they have been slowly spreading out. And now to this day I get that feeling every once in a while. All of my symptoms I believe look exactly like panic attacks or anxiety attacks. But I am terrified of this feeling that I keep getting being something more serious. I got blood work done and an EKG done and everything was normal besides my white blood cell count being very slightly high. I still don’t completely feel like myself and I just feel slightly lightheaded and kind of fuzzy. So this thing has been going on for two weeks but I’ve been slowly feeling better. The doctor basically said that he thinks anxiety is definitely playing a role but he just wants to rule out for my sake and for the medical perspective that there’s nothing else wrong. So he wants me to do a heart ultrasound which he expects to be totally normal and in the case it wasn’t obviously we can address it. I know this is a long post but I guess I am looking for some insight as far as if any of you think this is strictly anxiety related or if it’s possible that it’s alcohol withdrawals because I’ve been sober for two weeks because I am terrified that it has something to do with alcohol. I have never felt dependent on it, I just always liked having a few drinks here and there to relax and then on weekends I would just drink all day and have a good time, and I wouldn’t necessarily be drunk all day. But the past month or two I can definitely say I have been drinking a little bit heavier than I have been the past few years. Like I said I have been slowly feeling better, but the first week I was having the worst of the symptoms I was completely stressed out and anxious all the time because I was so confused about what was going on and after reading things online I completely freaked myself out. I have checked my blood pressure a few times last week and it fluctuates a little bit but it has been between 127/86 and like 145/90. I think it’s normal for blood pressure to fluctuate throughout the day also depending on stress etc. both doctor appointments, neither of them brought up me having high blood pressure. I am just curious if you guys think I keep giving myself anxiety attacks because I keep thinking about that feeling and stressing myself out about it and I’m bringing it on myself. Like I said the very first time I felt this feeling was when I banged my finger. It’s just weird to me that it would go away for three weeks and then come back. The first time I came back that Friday I honestly can’t remember if I was thinking about it or felt anxious. I remember being stressed about getting my car fixed but that was it.