extreme chest pains

[freesunlight]

lately my anxiety has been giving me lots of pain in my chest area, ive been to the doctors and had a quick checkup that reveals nothing serious. is there a way to minimize the pain? being a hypochondriac, i get worked up over the pain and its caused me to have two full blown panic attacks

[Jeff1943]

Non cardiac chest pain is a common symptom of anxiety, it is caused by muscular tension. Didn't your doctor suggest some effective painkillers. We are all hypochondriacs here, but we should always accept the diagnosis of our doctors rather than the diagnosis of our wild imaginations ably supported by Google.

When you get worked up over the pain the fear hormones this produces keep your nervous system over sensitised and the muscular tension in your chest continues. The best course is to accept the pains for the time being, with the aid of pain relievers, and to not attach the importance to them that you have been. Accept all the symptoms of anxiety as calmly anf fearlessly as you can and by accepting them in this way you deny your nervous system the fear hormones that cause your discomfort, but it must be utter acceptance of the symptoms.