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What's Your Story? Tell us. / First time mom with anxiety attacks

« on: March 10, 2020 at 02:21 PM »

My name is Kristine and I am seven weeks pregnant. This is my first pregnancy. I was very excited at first but for the last week my anxiety has gone through the roof. I used to suffer with very bad anxiety and was on medication which I got off of when I found out I was pregnant. At first I was OK but all of a sudden the anxiety got terrible. I lost 6 pounds already because I haven’t been able to eat anything but crackers and bread. My doctor put me on Lexapro which should be kicking in by the end of the week. I haven’t been back to work since Friday because the anxiety is so bad that I feel like I’m going crazy. It’s making me wish that I never got pregnant in the first place and that’s a terrible thing to say. I’m just so scared and I don’t know how I’m going to do this.