I hope the meds help. I second what laurajv says about anxiety meds being useful to have around even when you don't take them - at least for me, it reduces the sense of being helpless against the bodily craziness, because as-needed meds are weapons in your arsenal, which you can choose to deploy or not.

Good luck!

oh and re: your latest post, which I just saw: your initial response to a med may not be the response you get once your body is used to it. I have sometimes gotten more dramatic reactions at first, and then much less intense effects from even the second or third dose. So maybe it won't throw you for as much of a loop in future? It's hard to predict, though, individual biochemistry being the crapshoot that it is. :/

Hope you sleep well. (Are sleeping well? Will have slept well, when you see this? Something.)