I’m so sorry you’re not being heard :( panic is real, and a hard thing to convey to others. Did they give you medication to calm the nervous system? Xanax may be helpful. Please try and breathe, a simple 4 count in, 6 count out, to regulate as best possible. Hoping you feel better soon.

As I review the similar shut-downs I experienced in medical plazas, I now believe *I* was the one who was not listening as they kept repeating the same dx over and over.

Psychotherapy is where I finally shook that very specific feeling. Many years later, anxiety still produces those heart agitations in me. My psychotherapy toolbox is where I find the remedies. They only work if I work them.

But that is me. . .

Continued support while you sort your own, Giddy.

Go in and see a cardiologist.

I get very similar things with my anxiety but I would go to cardiologist and get checked out right now I’m wearing a heart monitor just to make sure you get that out-of-the-way and then you’ll know if it’s just your anxiety we have to learn how to handle it I’ve read about anxiety and panic and it tells you these things happen we careful first hope you feel better soon.

I actually have been to a cardiologist. They did an echo on my heart and didn't find anything. I also wore a heart monitor (I didn't wear it like I was supposed to though :(

They say they don't see nothing. I feel differently though. These heart palpitations are unbearable and are one of the main causes of why I have panic attacks. So I just don't see how there is nothing wrong, I feel like they just aren't looking at everything because I do have a panic disorder.

I buy the theory than mine is a chain reaction that begins with anxiety and can manifest down a number of paths until I reach that destination of feeling like I am having a heart attack or some such. So far my tests have been negative but I have been assured that it can manifest to the real deal if left unchecked. The detail I focus on is breathing. Typically I am either hyper-ventilating or shallow breathing throughout the entire anxiety cycle, though, there, too, I am a creative soul.

Whatever path my anxiety is chain-reacting down, breathing exercises are my front line defense. My brain is better able to see the next step when it is well-oxygenated.

At least I think that is what those heartless quacks told me. . . For sure those breathing exercises help me continually, wherever anxiety may strike. I can do them as needed without anybody around me even noticing. They've gotten me through many a panic spot without heart attack symptoms.

Gentle empathy, Giddy. It is not an easy puzzle to put together and every case is unique.

That's what they kind of told me too. I was hyper ventilating and I would hold my breath and not notice it. My left hand tingled and then went numb. Sometimes when I try to focus on my breathing I feel like I then cant though :(

idk I'm trying though I really am. I seen my psychiatrist today and he prescribed me Ativan and Seroquel and then in a week I will start something else (cant remember the name)

I have really bad medication anxiety though, I just feel like I cant win :(

Thank you for listening and sharing.

One of the hardest things we learn about anxiety and how it affects us is the way we "listen" to what others involved in our health care are saying.

Once I had a quiet consultation with a doctor who understood that he needed to explain everything with out a single word about anxiety, it became much easier to do everything that was possible with the tools available to manage anxiety symptoms.

Keep on working towards that new balance.

Giddy, I completely feel you. I just joined this group for the exact reason that you are describing. I’m sorry you’re also going through it... but your definitely not alone. How are you feeling by now? I read you’re taking meds for it?

I am in a much better place than I was when I made this post. I took gabapentin for a little over a week but stopped taking it Sunday :( Now I am not sleeping again.. sigh...