Anxiety chest pain

[Guzman13]

Does anybody else get chest pains randomly that radiate all over the chest and tend to come and go. Some feel like pressure and some like stabs or deep stabs that go across your chest? I dont feel like i’m having anxiety at the moment. I’m trying to relax and i’m feeling, yet again, what feels like another kind of scary chest pain. It literally lasts for 2 seconds but I feel it all over my chest and of course my mind says cardiac. I’m going so crazy because i’ve gone to the doctor so many time with “different” types of chest pains that havent killed me.

I’m terrified and feel like this is gonna make me go to the hospital for the 100th time and then it’s just gonna go away and never come back. I noticed the pain kinda comes when I exhale but it doesnt happen with each exhale. It’s just random pain.

[Bigbrovaz]

I’ve been having the same symptoms and I’ve been to the hospital more times than i can count, by the time i get there my body is always back to normal and they can’t find anything wrong with me...its so frustrating

[StressedLife]

I've experienced similar pains in my chest. I have also been to hospital twice and doctors god knows how many times. Everything normal and so on and simply put down to my anxiety. I started taking propranolol and that's helped with the over thinking and horrible panic attacks. I still get the random pains in the chest but I don't feel myself getting worked up over them anymore which helps.

[Guzman13 in reply to StressedLife]

I was put on propanolol as well but was too scared to take them because dr. Prescribed them for the heart palpitations not the chest pain and they would make my blood pressure go down when I already have a low blood pressure. But the chest pains went away, was able to sleep. I’m already scared of them starting up again and ruining my day

[Bigbrovaz in reply to StressedLife]

I had a problem with propanol and atenolol, the side effects are immobilizing and i had to discontinue.

[Bigbrovaz]

I think google is part of the problem, and it stems from the fact that we don’t want to be ignorant nor take things with levity...but i think it we should try to stop googling our symptoms and try to stop listening to our heartbeat all the time...its a lot but we can do it

[Guzman13 in reply to Bigbrovaz]

I’ve tried that so many times. I dare myself to finish a whole activity without feeling my heart beat and it gives me so much more anxiety. As for the chest pains, I feel like each one is different and I convince myself that the type i’m having will definitely kill me this time.

[Bigbrovaz in reply to Guzman13]

I’m glad we are talking about this because i can echo every word.. each attack is always kind of different and more intense with irregular patterns and yes i always feel like it’s probably going to be my last....it’s a terrible thing to have death on your mind always but i know we can get over it.

[anaaaa07 in reply to Guzman13]

how are you feeling I’m having the same issues already when to the ER everything looks normal but Im scared that something is going to happen

[Littleone88]

Ii went to hospital for this the other day. Every breathe or movement ii was having sharp pains really sharp. Then just a dull horrible feeling all over my chest. They did x ray and ecg and told me everything was fine and was more than likely a pulled muscle in my chest. Ii do suffer from terrible health anxiety also.

[Guzman13 in reply to Littleone88]

Something that helps ease my anxiety a bit is the sharp quick pains that I can pinpoint because I know that’s usually a muscle/skeleton pain and not a cardiac pain. It’s the ones that that take longer to fade away and usually feel in the center of my chest that tend to scare me to death. I dont get how we get pulled muscles in the chest when we literally do nothing to trigger them! Thats what started my health anxiety almost a decade ago!! I feel you!!

[Littleone88 in reply to Guzman13]

Yesss ii no this is exactly what ii said to the dr. Ii was literally sat still when it happened. So god knows how ii Apparently pulled anything: it is very scary.

Ii have a lot of pain and tht in the middle of my chest which is acid reflux Ii have a hernia there. Which causes me a lot of chest pains. Have you ever looked into tht sort of thing? Do u ever suffer with reflux?

[Bigbrovaz in reply to Littleone88]

I have always been plagued by reflux but i have no hernia, i think you have hiatal hernia because i once read about it... i don’t think you pulled any muscle and neither did i

[Bigbrovaz in reply to Guzman13]

Exactly! Its quite ironic to feel relief from pain for example when its a stabbing pain in areas you know is not from the heart region but when its towards the centre of the chest all your senses flare up...

[Bigbrovaz in reply to Guzman13]

My health anxiety started three years ago when i thought i was going to collapse on the field, i was playing football and suddenly i felt disoriented like i was going to pass out and my heart was so erratic i thought i was having a cardiac arrest.

[Bigbrovaz in reply to Littleone88]

How long have you been having this?

[Littleone88 in reply to Bigbrovaz]

Aw bless u. That’s scary.

My health anxiety started when ii was 23. Ii am 31 now. Ii got mine for a Traumatic experience tht ii will forever regret.

Everything ii feel i google which is the biggest mistake ii Make then ii end up having a panic attack over what ii have read 🤷🏻‍♀️ never ending cycle isnt it x

[Bigbrovaz in reply to Littleone88]

Exactly, we really need to stop googling symptoms because eventually we concentrate on them and start manifesting them...it’s called somatization

[Littleone88 in reply to Bigbrovaz]

Yes ii have done this a few times. Read something then 2 mins later ii feel it 🤔 not good at al. It’s definitely something I’m going to stop doing.

[Bigbrovaz]

I want to share the excerpts of a book i read.

[Bigbrovaz]

Another type of somatoform disorder is hypochondriasis (pronounced “hye-poh- kon-DRY-a-sis”), a strong, unjustified fear that one has, or might get, cancer, heart dis- ease, AIDS, or some other serious medical problem. The fear prompts frequent visits to doctors and reports of numerous symptoms. Their preoccupation with illness often leads people with hypochondriasis to become “experts” on their most feared diseases. In a related condition called somatization disorder, individuals make dramatic but vague reports about a multitude of physical problems rather than any specific illness. Pain disorder is marked by complaints of severe, often constant pain (typically in the neck, chest, or back) with no physical cause.

[Jenn_12345]

How have you been? Are you still feeling the same?

[Guzman13 in reply to Jenn_12345]

Completely fine!

It’s like this never happened

Went to the cardiologist again over palpitation issues and he gave me a clean bill of health. Everything was re-checked again for my reassurance. I’m guessing it was just my anxiety making me feel worse over a pain that was probably just musculoskeletal

[Jenn_12345 in reply to Guzman13]

Well that’s awesome! There is light at the end of this tunnel lol …. How long did you have it for? & was it consistent? Like did you get the stabs everyday? I’ve been having mines since February. Been to the cardiologist as well, & said nothing was wrong. Can’t wait for it to go away lol & thanks for replying!