Heart anxiety

[Sandy1710]

Can someone please post a success story on heart anxiety. I cannot get over it. Or give me some guidance where I'm going wrong. All day long I have pains in chest and stuff and it's ruining every day all day of my life. I also feel like a throbbing/pulsating feeling in my chest which I can only describe as it feeling like heart itself is bleeding (which I don't think is even logical is it) I have pulled the life out of my left nipple and when that rubs on my shirt I think it may be that which is causing the sensation. But I think maybe I'm hoping it is the nipple when it could be serious. I've had countless ecg's but I just don't feel right and live everyday in fear. I feel ashamed as you have already given me so much advice but nothing is working. Therapy, medication. Relexation techniques. If this is the life I have to live then I don't want to anymore unfortunately. Tried ignoring the symptoms but it's hard when they last all day. I feel a beat under my left armpit and in my nipple aswell. Stuck. Lost. Confused.

[Agora1]

Sandy1710, I think you would be surprised at the number of people who have overcome their obsession with their heart. I'm not the only one. What you are feeling is all mind controlled. You can't get over it because you haven't made any changes in your thinking. I will say though, that I think the pulling and prodding of your left nipple may have been a way for you to inadvertently want to transfer the focus from your heart to your nipple but you stayed in the general area of your heart. That only manifests the symptoms you are feeling in not knowing if it is your heart or the nipple causing the pain. It might have been better to refocus on something on the right side of your body and avoid the heart area.

That is until you can convince yourself this is mind over matter. Mind/Body Connection. You are so tightly wound up with focusing on your heart that you need something more to think about. Sometimes more than likely, when people have been focused on one particular body part and another body part has a problem, the thought immediately moves from one organ to another.

Why wait until something else shows up? Remove the trigger points to what gets you pulling and prodding on that nipple and concentrating on your heart beat. If it sitting and thinking, get up and move around, if it's you right hand reaching for the left side of your chest, hold that hand down with the other or use that hand for something else that takes moving your muscles. There has got to be a hundred ways to break habits. Maybe looking on YouTube regarding that will give you some ideas.

This is nothing to be ashamed of. Habits are hard to break and yet they can be. I know how much this is draining you from living and not just existing. We can all give your the tools to use but eventually you need to be the one to forge ahead by using them. It's not easy Sandy but that's why we are here to support and understand what you are going through. It's not your life you don't want anymore, it's anxiety that you don't want. There's a difference. Stay with us, we'll get you through this big block in the road.

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I have heart anxeaitty too for its been 2 months in this hell