Anyone have anxiety only with exertion?

[Springtimeholly]

Has anyone experienced adrenaline surges, hyperventilating, and tachycardia with very mild exertion, like walking slowly or eating? (Not happening at rest). And if so, have you been told it is anxiety or something else? This has been a new debilitating symptom for me that has me stuck on the couch and unable to function for 4 weeks. Getting tests but no answers yet. Had to stop working, withdraw from school, and totally depressed over it all. Just looking for any similar experiences or input. Thank you!

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Waiting for results can be trying.Keep yourself as calm as you can.Keep warm, eat regularly, rest.These symptoms are experienced by people who are anxious, and also people recovering from illnesses.You help yourself by resting and keeping calm until you actually know its cause.When you know that, then you can address it properly.Anxiety goes hand in hand with illnesses but is also happy to trundle along on its own.

Keep in touch with the good people on this forum...it is such a source of support.Take it easy.

[Springtimeholly in reply to Hidden]

Thank you for your comforting words.

[heartbreak in reply to Springtimeholly]

I don’t have that exactly but I do have almost continuous palpitations now which are ruining my sleep and keeping me in fear of having a heart attack . Doctors don’t seem to care why we have these symptoms , they just want to drug you up or stuck a catheter in your heart and kill the nerves that are causing the abnormal beats . If it’s a psychological cause , they aren’t really trained or interested in dealing with that Reading someone else’s similar plight makes me feel better than anything my three cardiologists have ever said to me

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If you have had those essential electrocardiogram tests and the Doctors are telling you they cannot find what is wrong, welcome to my club.I went through all the tests and even underwent an angiogram...only to be told my symptoms are probably due to anxiety.

There is a test that is non invasive called a calcium artery score test.That is the ONLY one that tells the real story...which you can arrange privately.

Having said that ...palpitations can have many benign causal triggers.

Vagus nerve impringement or poor vagal tone.Digestive issues, reflux, bloated stomach, gas...tend to be at the top of my list.And anxiety.You lose enormous amounts of magnesium when you are stressed or anxious which means you find it hard to relax.

Sipping hot water with a teaspoon of bicarb will release air and often relieve the "tripping" heart...it also lowers circulating calcium.Only use this when you are having a severe run of palps.

Vagus nerve exercises like deep humming so you feel the vibration in the mid chest can work wonders.This relaxes bpvagal tone and helps the heart calm down.

My cure all to all the above was to eat a daily portion of porridge...this helps settle digestion and lowers cholesterol.

Think about taking Magnesium Taurate 500 mg per day.This particular magnesium is found mainly in the heart muscle (not anywhere else in the body)and is often given to people who have heart rhythm disturbances to great effect.

Magnesium is the hearts best friend...anxiety will also thankyou as it calms down tense muscles.It is the antagonist(opponent)to calcium which cause people to tense up and fur up.It is very safe to take and very inexpensive to buy.Like most non pharmaceutical things, natural cures are just as effective.

Hope these words give you some ideas and hope.best wishes.