isn't that how it always goes? You feel so silly after such panic.
Do you think that once you felt the chest pains you constantly worried about it? If so, that's probably why your muscles started tensing up and got to the point it did. I have health anxiety and have to talk myself down quite a bit. If I were to get chest pain, I would have to ignore it and rationalize in my brain,tell myself that it's nothing. That would help me to avoid panic.

That's how it went alright. After the chest pain went on for a few days then I started to get weakness, I got scared. I started to tell myself that I had some deadly illness like menengitis, lol. I had that horrible sense of doom. What a stupid thing to do to urself.

I completely understand. I do the exact same thing. I also suffer from GERD and I get breastbone pain and sometimes it bothers so much I start thinking I'm having a heart attack or other heart related problems. I hate anxiety so much. I go to the doc often and then I realize that I could have just stayed home. I mean it's great there's nothing wrong life threatening, but it's also annoying racing to the doc to find out it was all in your head. I hope you continue to feel better. I'm still struggling with my GERD.

I was feeling sooo much better this morning, then my husband had to be an ass and the stress started all over. He has no use for anyone's kids but his own and he always gets pissy when my kids come over. His 22 yr old and my 7 yr old live with us but my 17 yr old son stays with my sister since I got married and moved because he didn't want to change schools. My oldest daughter is 22 and has a 3 yr old and is pregnant now. The anger shows all over his face when they come over. So my daughter came to spend the night with me last night and the first thing he said this morning was "how long is she going to stay?"
I got mad instantly and we got into a huge fight.

And believe me, his kids do no wrong. If u can't be good to my kids then u might as well let me go.

Reflux and anxiety can go hand in hand. For me the reflux medications don't work. I think that a depression med I was on caused the reflux as I took it for 10 years and went off of it and never had it before.
Anyway best to you and I understand how it is worrying about every little health issue like the world was going to end. :)

husband issues ALWAYS affect my anxiety. It stinks!! I think it's the things we love the most that get the most rise out of us :O)
Not that you've asked for anyone's advice, but if I were in your situation, I'd acknowledge my husband's obvious animosity towards my children, but go on anyway. It's your house too right? And those are your children and grandchild whom you love most in this world. He can just deal, just like you have to w/ his kids. (I don't know how you feel about them, just sayin) That's what marriage is about, uniting your lives.

My mom always tells me... use the same energey you've been using to think negatively, to think positively. Wake up and think, 'Oh MY! (and she is this quirky) today is wonderful! I feel wonderful! Today is going to be awesome!'
and you know what? It may not work 100%, but it beats moping around in fear, thinking you're dying.

We can beat this!