Anxiety getting worse when you’re sick

I’ve struggled with anxiety for such a long time. Sometimes my anxiety will get so bad that it leads to depression. I used to be on Sertraline but after a couple of years on it my OCD got really bad so my doctor started to wean me off of it in hopes to try something else. I saw a psychiatrist who told me to try escitalopram. If I’m being honest, I started this right as classes and work were getting intense so I wasn’t always taking it at the same time. Then I got sick, and I remembered the psychiatrist telling me not to take certain medications with it and even though I checked with a pharmacist and they said it was fine, I stopped taking the escitalopram because I was scared it would have some weird interaction with all the decongestants I was taking. A week after that, I got sick again even worse. Now it’s been days and I still feel sick. I’m coughing, I sound congested and the worst part is my ears are plugged. I’ve always had issues with my left ear but right now both my ears are so bad and it’s been almost a week. My anxiety is so bad because I keep thinking what if they never get better what if they never go back to normal. I’m terrified. I’m having multiple panic attacks a day. When I wake up in the morning, I have so much anxiety. I can’t even leave the house because I’m sick and too anxious to leave. The driving also makes my ears so much worse. I feel hopeless, I feel so scared. Does anyone else get anxiety like this when they’re sick?