Left side pains but is it Anxiety?

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Hi, I am new here and I am not sure what I expect from coming here. Maybe to feel I am not crazy and alone? I am 28 years old and have always had what I believe was a mild form of social anxiety but it didn't affect me too much. COVID 19 hit and my partner had to shield so we were at home and never left for anything during the whole lockdown and even a month before the official lockdown began.

One evening after having a mild ache on my left forearm I googled for some answers as to why read a lot of different things telling me some horrible stuff and about half an hour later I experienced what I now believe to have been a panic attack but at the time I was sure I was about to die.

I suddenly couldn't think about anything other than my heart and all of these conditions google has now told me I have. eventually, my mind and pains took me to the emergency room where they did blood tests, EKG, and a chest x-ray all to assure me all is fine. I went home and nothing really improved but googling more what these tests could have missed, 2 weeks later my mind is still racing, but with new very scary pains only on the left side of my chest and shoulder, I went back to the emergency room 2 nights ago to have all the same tests and have nothing but highish blood pressure which they test again before I left and was happy with the second results.

I just can't accept that all these pains are almost imaginary, I tell myself a lot that my heart and everything related is fine and even when I think I'm not really thinking about it all the pains just come anyway, and then I really do think about it. I don't even know how this has happened.

Am I alone? (Sorry for the wall of text.)

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Hello

You are not alone and I think this covid has caused people that didn't suffer with anxiety to now be suffering and those that already did made it so much worse to cope with

Be reassured that the Doctors would not get things wrong and you have been tested also anxiety can mimic so many illnesses

The one thing though is please keep of Google it will always spit out the worse scenario even if you only have an infected toe nail , 3 clicks and it will tell you it is all over !

Even when we think we are not thinking about something the mind is a very clever thing and in the back of it we can still have that fear niggling away even though we are not noticing it

I hope now things are settling down a bit regarding covid you can get back to life as you knew it the best you can as the more time we have to think the more anxiety it creates

If you really are struggling to move on you could speak with your Doctor as well as use these Communities which will help to know you are not alone

Take Care x