I’ve struggled with anxiety, panic disorder, and emetophobia for my whole life. I was prescribed Prozac for my anxiety and Xanax for when I have panic attacks. About a month ago, my anxiety and panic skyrocketed. Idk why it randomly happened at 31, but I did have a minor surgical procedure to close my stretched ears, and the antibiotics I took made me nauseous, which my doctor thinks might have pushed me over the edge. I was having full on panic attacks, sobbing, hyperventilating, and was terrified. My doctor increased my Prozac from 40mg to 60mg, and told me to keep use the Xanax as needed when my panic became too much. I started seeing a therapist and made an appointment with a psychiatrist. The therapy seems to be helping, I’m learning about CBT, and I hope it helps. The increased dosage finally feels like it’s taking effect after 4 weeks, and last week was actually kind of nice. A “good week.” This week, however, has been so rough. My anxiety is bad again, my stomach keeps feeling off, or hot, or uneasy, and that adds to my anxiety. I’m pretty sure that’s just from my anxiety though. So it’s a a cycle. I’ve been unable to sleep, and I’ve been really gloomy because I feel like I’m not making progress anymore. I always hear that healing isn’t linear and there are good periods and bad periods, but I just am so worried that I won’t feel normal or good again. I’m so tired of feeling this anxious, of every feeling in my stomach setting me off, of waking up in the middle of the night and in the morning in a panicked state. This might be a stupid question, but does it get better? Is healing like this? I just need reassurance that things will keep getting better even though some days or weeks feel awful. I’m so scared of not making progress to feeling better again.