Hoping just a symptom

[warkie]

This is weird to explain but feels like my heart is skipping a beat but the feeling is in the middle of my chest not the left hand side and also feels like I have something stuck,it's hard to explain,does anyone else feel like this if they get what I'm on about?

[dessi]

i have had that feeling, dont know why or what, but heard/read palptations

[warkie in reply to dessi]

I don't get palpitations,the feeling is weird,stressed a lot lately so I'm hoping its just that

[Krn210]

I get that feeling. I always attribute it to acid reflux. To me it kind of feels like a big pocket of air or something that won’t move. I also get the feeling as if my heart is skipping a beat but it isn’t really...it’s very hard to describe the sensation like you said. That one I attribute to anxiety. Lol. That one I usually get an immediate thought of “oh no!”

[warkie in reply to Krn210]

I had it in my head I had something wrong with my heart,now I've had a bit of reassurance I'm hoping the feeling will go x

[Rilo7268]

ive been feeling like this lately. im not even sure my heart is actually skipping a beat or im so tuned into the way it feels lately that im making myself think it is. when it happens i feel like i need to cough. when im feeling calmer i dont experience it as much.

[Jeff1943]

May I ask, is it worthwhile concerning yourself with these symptoms, warkie? You are no stranger to anxiety I know so you appreciate that the feelings you describe are not genuine symptoms of anxiety but 'pretend' symptoms caused by your depleted nervous system. They are not harbingers of heart disease, cancer or stroke. They are blips in your nervous system, nothing more. As I say, you are no stranger to anxiety.

I know they feel real enough but why give them the ability to cause you more anxiety, more stress hormones, more sensitisation?

No matter how hard you try you will never cure yourself of an illness you don't have.

I say disregard these symptoms, don't try to blank them out, that would be impossible, but maybe don't give them the importance that you may have been doing.

Instead of studying your symptoms perhaps look the other way: towards the cause of your symptoms, that which creates your discomfort. Anxiety itself, if you could free yourself from that then all these strange and annoying feelings and symptoms would cease.

So what is anxiety? It's having a nervous system that has been over sensitised by fear and the fear of fear. It doesn't have to be that way, you can replace fear with a more positive response, you can master your anxiety instead of giving it permission to master you.

Warkie, the symptoms you describe sound like tension in the muscles of your chest and maybe that lump in the throat feeling that people report here almost every other day.