Hello @falconhawaii and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. First, let me say I am glad you've joined this community to get support on this journey. What you are experiencing is real to you and likely all symptoms of something affecting you. Stress certainly can trigger many responses in our body, and medications can address those symptoms but I've always believed that getting to the root cause is paramount.

You mention early on in your post that you feel stress could've brought on some of your symptoms. I wonder if you might be willing to share the types of stresses you can list since the onset of your symptoms. You may share them back here or journal them as a way to get them out of your head just to really take inventory. Next, something I like to do is make a list of them in order of highest to lowest and then make an action plan for how I can address the stressors. This exercise may be able to help you identify if there has been an ongoing stressor in your life that has been increasingly straining to you and your nervous system.

Have you ever considered doing an exercise like this to identify if stress could be one of the factors in what you are experiencing? Are you willing to give it a try?