Agoraphobia+health anxiety 😭

Ok so I’ve been struggling bad with agoraphobia for the past 6 months. I’ve been unemployed and basically just spending everyday in my room doing nothing. I was slowly making progress with doing things like appts, going out, etc. A month ago all of my progress got crushed because I had a medical emergency in public. I hit my head very hard after passing out, and sustained a bad concussion.

After I concussed myself not only was I dealing with horrible post concussion symptoms, but my heart started acting up and 5/6 days ago it got so bad I decided to see a doctor. I thought it was just my anxiety messing with me, I have a long history of health anxiety related doctors visits where they’ve all told me nothing was wrong, so when scheduled the appointment I knew they’d realistically say it’s just my anxiety.

Turns out for the first time in my life, I was right, I actually am having heart issues 🙃 My doctor just told me that it sounded a lot like POTS, but that she wasn’t 100% sure because there are specific tests to test that, and I would have to see a cardiologist, which is 2 months out 😭 I was also told to get off of this pysch medication I’ve been taking due to its heart side effects, and tapering has been making me a lot more anxious.

Now my health anxiety is going crazy because I don’t know what’s going on with my heart. I can barely function. Idk how I’m going to wait 2 months. Every chest pain is freaking me out. My agoraphobia is also peak because I’m having to get off these meds, and i’m terrified I’m going to pass out when I’m walking due to the heart stuff 🙃