Heart Attack or anxiety? I'm only 17, and i'm so scared...

[Ananas]

Yesterday night my chest area (especially close to my heart) started hurting really bad like somebody was stabbing my heart. I also had severe headaches, nausea (but no vomiting), tingling feelings all over the body and i started sweating so i poured water on my face. I'm really scared of having a heart Attack.. the symptoms look the same.. Also my chest feels tight since that night.. Sometimes my heart hurts. I had my heart checked but i'm still not reassured on why it hurts so much. I'm only 17.. It's been a month since i suffered from this symptoms and i already can't take it anymore. I'm really scared of dying.. i don't know what to do.. please help me.

[Jeff1943]

You have nothing to fear except fear itself,Ananas. Someone said that a long time ago and it is true of all of us here. If you had had a heart attack you would have been taken to the Critical Care Ward of a hospital. You weren't because the highly trained and highly experienced medical experts checked your heart and it's o.k. So you really must give them the benefit of the doubt, in fact don't have any doubts at all.

By all means go and discuss your pains with your doctor but don't mention hearts. Yours is fine for at least another 83 years by my reckoning. Tough old things, hearts, if you'd ever seen the size and strebgth of a heart muscle you'd know what I mean.

So go and talk it over with your doc for your own reassurance. And if nothing is found then it's highly likely to be a bit of anxiety. Have you been worrying and stressing more than normal lately, maybe about school or college or something else? If so discuss things with your parents, a relative or someone else you can trust. And try to find a resolution to your worry. Remember, you did choose an anxiety forum to ask for help, maybe deep down that means you strongly suspect it's anxiety.

If it is then just try to accept the symptoms without swamping your body with fear, that only keeps the symptoms coming. So just accept them for the time being, don't stress about them, too much introspection is not good. And if you keep your fear to a minimum you will recover and the bad feelings will pass. This I promise.

[Ananas in reply to Jeff1943]

Thank you so much! I really have troubles with accepting those feelings and i don't trust the doctors so much..

But i do think it is anxiety.. I have a big exam in 3 days so there might be a link

[Jeff1943 in reply to Ananas]

Yes, that exam is likely to be it, Ananas. But still I say accept those bad feelings without resentment and fear for the moment, put your trust in doctors who have given you nothing but good news...and enjoy demonstrating how clever you are by giving that exam your best shot☺

[Ananas in reply to Jeff1943]

But my heart still feels really weird, it's really uncomfortable.. I can't sleep either it hurts :c

I'd love to see another doctor but my mother didn't accept... i don't know what to do,

it didn't hurt as much before (they checked my heart like a month ago and it didn't hurt like that)