Heart anxiety

[Gattinko]

Freaking anxiety About my heart! Is there anybody else who cant get over own heart, someone who still Feels something “is with your heart” but the doctor says its perfectly Ok? I still feel something like discomfort or fluttering around heart especially when im in the bed

[HelloPanda23]

I had anxiety over my heart as well 2 weeks ago, and that led me to focusing too much on my bpm and whether I was okay. By focusing on my bpm, I was making myself feel flutters in my chest along with a lot of discomfort. It's okay to feel that, just ignore it, and it'll be fine. That's how I was able to get over the fear. I never went to a doctor or anything, and I'm completely over it because I know that when I don't pay attention to my heart, the discomfort and pain goes away. Trust me, just relax and enjoy yourself, if your doctor says your heart is fine, I highly doubt there is anything wrong. I know this is easy to stay from me because I got away from it quite quickly, but I myself am going through a fear of getting ALS and it's placing a lot of fear and anxiety in my life. If you haven't already, do mindfulness, and I hope it helps.

[Gattinko in reply to HelloPanda23]

But how can it be so real?

[HelloPanda23 in reply to Gattinko]

I don't know, it's just scary. I had a panic attack an hour or two ago, I feel terrible right now. Life sucks, but what can we do? Just cope with it, and if you find it necessary, just go to a doctor. I'm thinking about going and getting help for this, I don't know though. Best advice I can give you is, keep your mind busy, very busy.

[Preciouslamb1]

Hello

I can totally relate to you and I know it sounds easier said than done, but you need to not pay attention to it. I would feel flutters or palpitations and would start freaking out! I ended in the hospital a good amount of times and all my tests were good. But I would “feel something” and would start the cycle again. And I would also google the symptoms and that’s worse! Please don’t do that! It got so bad that I wouldn’t be active because I was scared of feeling my heart. If your doctor cleared you, then move on, do the things you enjoy because the more you put fear into the thought that something is wrong with your heart, the stronger the thoughts are going to get and the more anxiety is going to create and the cycle would continue . ((Hugs))

[meegoon]

i have the same issue. feel free to message me <3

[Usagold]

Yes! Your heart symptoms are probably related to anxiety. At least mine apparently were. It’s probably the extra adrenaline stimulating your heart. Now that I’ve been through a few years of it, I see that when my body is calm, I have less chest discomfort and less flutters (PVCs), like almost none some days, but if I start rushing or get upset, there they are. When I was in the throes of anxiety, I had spells where my heart would race and so many flutters that I wore a monitor, went to an electrophysiologist, stopped working out... I totally thought I had a heart condition. When you can completely stop worrying about it and about everything and really not care, it will probably improve.

[Agora1 in reply to Usagold]

Hi Usagold, hope all is well. Haven't seen you for a while xx

Have a great day!

[Usagold in reply to Agora1]

I have been doing well, thank you, which is probably why you haven’t seen me here (knock on wood). After nearly 3 years of it, including a complete breakdown, quitting my teaching job, nocturnal panic attacks, heart monitors, trips to the ER, counseling, now I hardly even think about anxiety or my heart anymore. The only thing I still notice is that if I experience stress or don’t get sleep, I start to feel hints of my old symptoms. I can’t handle stress like I once could. It’s like the monster is gone, but...it’s hiding under the bed. I’m not afraid when I feel the symptoms resurface because now it’s like I know what it is and I know what I need to do. Are you still doing well?

[Agora1 in reply to Usagold]

Oh that's so good to hear. I always hope that is the reason I don't see someone as often. You found the answer and that is not being afraid. You're right in that it may come out at times but accepting it as not harmful and dealing with it, we win every time.

I'm doing well thank you but like you it was a long road to get where I'm at today.

Wishing you well and enjoy your beautiful family. I'm so happy for you xx

[Keoshiana in reply to Usagold]

How’d you get past your anxiety

[Usagold in reply to Keoshiana]

When I really completely quit caring about my symptoms, they gradually GRADUALLY went away. Claire Weeke’s book, “Hope and Help for Your Nerves” helped me more than anything, along with an experienced anxiety counselor I talked to by phone once/week. The counselor had to remind me over and over that my symptoms really were anxiety and I wasn’t dying. Once I [finally] accepted that my debilitating, seemingly life-threatening symptoms were “just anxiety”, I was able to let them stay and stop obsessing over them. I would say to myself, “My heart is racing and skipping beats again, I feel like I can’t breathe, but ok so what? It is doing this because of excess adrenaline, it can’t kill me, so it’s ok, let it keep racing and skipping, it’s fine, my body will keep breathing. Isn’t it amazing how this anxiety can make me feel, wow...” I went on about my business more fascinated with how I felt and what my body was doing than afraid of it. Strangely enough, like Dr. Weekes had promised in her book, my symptoms did, in fact, disappear, and to my surprise I started to feel normal and happy and started living again.

[Usagold in reply to Keoshiana]

Just yesterday I was on a 3 hour flight across the US. I had some old anxious thoughts like “what if my heart races or goes into an abnormal rhythm on this airplane?” and I felt my stomach sink and my heart sped up, but then I thought, “haha, oh yeah, it’s OK if it does, IT’S OK, just sit here and let it happen.” Now.... I did visualize myself with a gas mask on lying on the floor in the back of the plane with the stewardesses gathered around me and the plane making an emergency landing, but I laughed it off, reminded myself that I didn’t care about my symptoms anymore, and started reading my book. I was so proud.

[Agora1 in reply to Usagold]

I'm proud of you as well Usagold. Those "what ifs" will try sneaking in any chance they get, but you will prove them wrong now that you have the tools to do it. xx

[Keoshiana in reply to Usagold]

I had all tests done & tried to get over it then BOOM once i started to try to get my appetite back it would be like gas was in my chest, horrible pressure & discomfort. I’ve already lost over 20 pounds within the last 3mnths just from that feeling which started after I’d have panic or anxiety