My anxiety overfloweth.

[Kellt]

Hi everyone, ive had a long awaited echocardiogram and had a 24hr tape fitted and i now feel pretty tense. Its a horrid feeling, i feel like my heart is racing and im totally convinced they will find an abnormality and i will have a diagnosis of heart disease.

I spoke with my cbt counsellor today about my constant worry but even after listening to her rationalise things and talk about a worry tree and problem solving tasks, i still feel worried to death. I feel this echo and 24hr tape is the culmination of many many months of worry and i wished id nipped this in the bud months ago as i feel my anxiety would not have escalated to this level. I just want to return to my calmer rational self. This has been a rollercoaster though hellville which i very much want to get off now, as im sure we all do. This is awful.

[Melgil58]

Hello sorry your having a bad time but your being checked out I suffered a heart attack nearly three yrs ago now and I have heart disease there's not much I can't do but there's a lot I have to fight my anxiety to let me do I have health anxiety which is sometimes a major pain in the backside but fear of another heart attack doesn't play a big part in my thinking I get on with stuff when you get your results which I hope will be good you'll calm down because the old heart goes merrily on its way doing its thing no matter what we think its doing if you need any info on anything about living with heart stuff I'm no dr but iv been there ill be glad to help just post on here all the best good luck with the results. Mel

[thunderacer]

You may find that god forbid it is bad news you will accept it easier than if they find nothing is wrong, the hardest part will be acceptance of good news as your brain is looking for a reason why you feel bad and there may not be one!

Good luck Steve.