Holter results ok.. still not feeling calm..

[Marci76]

Hi

So i got my holter results yesterday... there was about 10 000 skipped heart beats in 24 hours.. doc said is in the limit, so nothing to worry about... they did not catch on the holter anything unusual and all was quite normal.. I tried the day i had the holter to go up stairs on the tallest tower in my town.. my heart went up to 170 which is ok for my age.. then down on 90 and for few hours was in this rate.. my resting heart rate is about 60 so it was still fast for me.. but she said it is quite normal and is probably because im in bad condition... so if all is ok.. why i finally dont feel calmer.. i thought after the holter, when i will hear my heart is ok, i will forget my anxiety and will believe nothing wrong with me.. but i am not.. i again cant believe all is ok..

i am afraid i will never stop the anxiety and the fear ... on sertraline already 8th week.. is much better, but still very strong anxiety flashes.. and even when i dont feel anxious.. my head is full of worries that something wrong with the heart ..

I still will go on stress test on treadmill.. as i feel dizzy when the heart beats longer time faster... dont know if i feel dizzy because of the heart, or because i start to be anxious when it beats fast..

[Sandy1710]

I had another ecg last Thursday and that hasn't given me any further reassurance. All I can do for reassurance is see that probably over half of the posts on here about heart fears. I had every test done in January then one more last Thursday and mine is fine (apparently). We can do this! Hungover today so anxiety is absolutely off the ricta!

[Aliciar]

You have to learn to trust your doctor. If they even thought anything was wrong with your heart they would tel you. I was and still am where you are. I've had 5 ekgs, where a monitor for 3 days and had a heart echocardiogram. Everything came back fine until I had the echo. And I was told I had stage 1 distolic dysfunction. This rocked my world and scared the shit out of me bc my worst f at is dieing of a heart issue. But my heart dr and primary dr both told me this was nothing to worry about and with diet and exercise it could be gone the next time I have a echo. So I'm trying one day at a time to exercise and not worry about my heart. I know it's hard but if I don't trust my doctors then I need to get new ones

[jessiejakes in reply to Aliciar]

Hi aliciar I have paramoxil fibrillation ( heart rate can go really fast) and last Oct had echo cardigram and they told me I had leaky heart valve. But not to worry as 2 to 6% of the population have it and don't even know.and it isn't anything to worry about and they just check it every year .and just continue to take the one beta blocker daily.I to was scared but I have now accepted it and I'm just carrying on with my life.

[Jeff1943]

Marci76, you say you've had the test and spoken to your doctor who says everything is o.k. You also say that you think the doctors have got it wrong and that you know better than them.

Let me ask you, if a dear relative or friend needed an operation who would you prefer to carry out the surgery, who would be better qualified: you or a member of the medical profession? Think about it.

[Marci76 in reply to Jeff1943]

I never said ".You also say that you think the doctors have got it wrong and that you know better than them" where do you see i would say this... i am only saying, that even i was thinking that after the results i will be able to forget my anxiety and believe that i am ok.... i am still not able to believe it... and it is not fault of docs but my anxiety that does not want to go away even i got normal results... and im sure, in this group, i am not the only one who has it totally same...

here is a lot of us whom got many times normal results of ecg, holter, echo, blood tests....and still we all cant believe we are ok and still we all are in fear ....

[Jeff1943]

You are quite right, Marci76, we all do it, we get test results that says everything is o.k. and we still wonder if the doctors have missed something. That's why it helps to remember doctors went to medical school for 5 years etc.

This not believing it when doctors give us good news is another of the tricks that jangled nervous systems play on us. But we can recover from anxiety disorder if we can only stop fueling our over sensitised nerves with fear. It's so easy to get in that vicious circle of symptoms causing fear causing more symptoms causing more fear. If only we can break that circle it gives our nervous system a chance to recover and the symptoms of anxiety pass.

The best way to make this happen that I know of is the Acceptance Method devised many years ago by Doctor Claire Weekes and described in her first book 'Self help with your nerves'. This involves accepting all the symptoms and bad feelings that sensitive nerves bombard us with - calmly and with a minimum of fear. Because if you accept the symptoms for the time being you can't be fearful of them at the same time.

Acceptance has allowed many thousands to completely recover over the years. The power of anxiety to affect us is limited. The human heart is one of the strongest muscles there is. We are allowing ourselves to be intimidated by something that is merely a glitch or blip in our nervous system. Anxiety is a toothless paper tiger and there is no reason we shouldn't cease to let it fighten us.