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Anxiety and Chest related symptoms

ohm112616
ohm112616

I suffer from heart palpitations and chest pain. I have a few weeks where Im great and a few weeks in a row where its almost daily. Ive been to the ER multiple times in fear of a heart attack, went thru cardiologist tests, i see a therapist and do meditation and yoga. It always seems to hit me when Im just doing laundry, relaxing, working, etc. im 27 years old and live every day in fear of falling over of a heart attack. Please tell me I am not alone!

rojo_10
rojo_10
You definitely aren't alone... I too suffer from heart palpitations and chest pains, at times I feel like I'm having a heart attack but I have managed to keep my anxiety under control. It is most likely anxiety & just need to learn to cope with your fear, hope you feel better :)
Mayaantoniette
Mayaantoniette
I go through this too!!! I cannot even tell you how many times ive been to the emergency room for chest pains and weird symptoms like that and everything comes back normal. You definitely are not alone!! Ive gotten alllll the tests done imaginable. Normal! Have you ever gotten a massage? I went when a dr told me my pain was muscular and the massage therapist told me my muscles are out of control tense. Its all a part of anxiety i guess. Massage helps me tremendously though!
bridgie101
bridgie101
You're not alone - but you do realise it won't kill you. I mean - it hasn't killed you.

If it was going to kill you you'd be dead. Hang onto that thought.

The guy at the ER after I'd been on the monitor for an hour told me that palpitations aren't your heart doing anything different. They're just you noticing your heart doing what it always does.

This makes sense. You're hearing your heart when you're relaxing. When you've got the mental space to notice it. That's what happened to me too. It's like tinnitis - but with heartbeats. You're suddenly super tuned in.

But it hasn't killed you.

So it's not going to.

I remember as a girl I would get serious nose bleeds, or blood noses as we called them then. I would wonder if I would bleed to death.

Do you know what my mum did? She told me to bleed into a cup. She said I had 14 cups of blood in me. And to let her know when I'd lost 4.

Well I never did get to 4. I got to 1/2 a cup once, but I never did get to 4.

What we think our bodies are going through isn't always the case. Sometimes we have to sit there and say "I don't think I'm going to die. And I'm not going to A&E this time." And then don't go. Challenge your anxiety.