just a bit of help please!

Hi,

im sure this has been posted/asked a thousand times - but just to save me going through a thousand posts. apologies in advance.

I have suffered with anxiety/mild depression for several years, and only the end of september last year it got really severe to the point i couldnt deal with it anymore all the usual - feeling like you're have a heart attack, loosing despair, hot and cold flashes, chest pains etc etc... all what that lovely thing anxiety does to us. i went to the doctors and he prescribed me with 40mg propranalol two to three times daily, i had a couple of side effects when starting but nothing that worried me. i had been on them for a good couple of months with no joy of them helping so i went to doctors a couple weeks before xmas. i was then presribed Sertraline, i took one and it gave me the worst anxiety attack ive ever had which resulted me in A&E - i was told by them it may be a good idea to not take anymore which i did, so then i went back to the doc just after xmas - i told him what had happened and that i was advised to stop, he in a sense wasnt to pleased and told me to start again. i bucked the courage up and started on Friday(30th December) the first couple of days were absolutely fine but for the last few day i have had consistent indigestion(as if theres something blocked in my throat and just above the stomach) and tightness in chest these have not eased or dissapeard at all not even for 30 seconds, i was just hoping someone could shed some light on this and confirm this is completely normal to do with the drug and these effects should hopefully go? as im struggling to eat because of this.

apologies for writing alot you didnt really need to know but i thought a bit of history never hurts.

Thanks for reading

James

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