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[quote=Anonymous]Did the Xanax work fast to reduce your heart rate?  If so, it would more likely be anxiety.  That it would awake you from your sleep would be unusual but not unheard of.  If you didn't get fast relief from the Xanax, that would be a very good reason to strongly entertain other causes.  Whatever the answer is be sure to tell your PCP--this is very valuable information for him/her.

For me there is no greater stresser than a child with health problems, particularly if they haven't been able to figure what's wrong or if the treatment takes a really long time to be effective.  BTDT too many times to count.  I have never experienced anxiety from this, however (as long as you don't count too much time on WebMD as anxiety!).

For better or for worse my experience leads me to be a bit skeptical about going straight to anxiety as causative of physical symptoms that come out of no where.  (As distinguished from experiencing horrific things and immediately throwing up, fainting, or going through fight or flight.)

With this stress have you been taking good care of yourself in terms of eating, exercise, sleep, and avoiding drinking, excess caffeine etc.?  FWIW, I don't think the crying is indicative of a MH problem yet.  With your child's problems and what happened last night you are simply feeling overwhelmed and crying is your reaction to that.  I have been overwhelmed many times with kid's health problems.  Am not a crier so haven't had that happen.  I find that if I can just figure out one next step to take  the overwhelming feeling goes away.

For symptoms like these my checklist is look at meds first (including OTC) as possible causes.  Then the environmental stuff like not enough sleep, poor diet etc.  Then look at possible physical causes.  This is the hard step because many doctors want to skip it (and you can't do it yourself) and go straight to the fourth step: consider mental health problems.  [/quote]

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