I was having anxiety attacks in early sobriety, I would say almost daily, and even an EKG revealed nothing wrong with my heart or anything else. I took a leave of absence from work thinking it would help, when in fact it just gave me added time to dwell on the wreckage of my past that I had to begin the process of cleaning up through work in recovery. Nothing helped other than actively working a program of recovery and learning the beginnings of a spiritual life, I found that abstinence only goes so far. "Putting the plug in the jug" was just the beginning, then begins a lifetime of putting the tools we learn into action to say sober and live a satisfying life.