I was a daily smoker for about 2 years, I often took tolerance breaks and never had a problem, insomnia being the only withdrawal. However, the last time I smoked, I had a really bad experience, I felt disscociated and everything around me looked distorted (apparently signs of dp/dr). I then stopped cold turkey. The initial withdrawals I had were quite weird: sleeping a lot, really bad headaches and insane brain fog, which all lasted for about 2 weeks.
Since then I've been off it for 2.5 months now. I started to get really bad digestive problems at around the 1 month mark: constant stomach pain, barely have bowel movements, severe indigestion along other random symptoms such as tension headaches, chest tightness, tinnitus, eye floaters. It seems I have all physical symptoms of anxiety. I also had an endoscopy done and everything is normal.
Drs put me on lexapro 10mg to help with the anxiety and depression. My question is am I experiencing PAWS? And will the lexapro affect my recovery? I've been on many forums and people's experiences relate PAWS to a cluster of different symptoms. Mine are just severe anxiety with insomnia and really bad digestive problems.
Any advice and insight would be highly appreciated!