For as long as I can remember I've always had a very noticeable heartbeat. I also have pulsatile tinnitus so it just makes me more acutely aware of my own heartbeat. But one day a few weeks back I woke up and couldn't feel my heartbeat anymore and the tinnitus had just magically disappeared. My chest just feels empty all the time and it proper freaks me out. I still have quite bad health anxiety and even when I excerise or have a panic attack I can't feel my heartbeating. Anyone else ever experience this?
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Can't feel my heartbeat
I have, had Cbt, various different medications, herbal remedies, mindfulness, meditation all the conventional routes. I know it sounds like a bizarre thing to be anxious about but the only way I can describe it that it's like a gut instinct that something feels very off. I've been checked out by docs, ecg, physical exam, blood tests all came back normal
I stopped having it because whilst I was having it my doctor had me on a benzodiazepine at the time and my brain was so dulled I couldn't learn any new behaviours because my brain wasn't taking anything in. So I tapered the benzo and came off it with a view to starting Cbt again in the next couple of weeks. Obviously coming off the benzo increased my anxiety but I didn't think it could cause sensory perception issues like this? Probabrly wrong to be fair
Ativan. They kept me on it for to long. 5 months total
Definetley. If I could go back and tell myself not to take that medication I would. Really messes up the body. I did have a thought on this heartbeat issue but it may sound a bit stupid. I was thinking it could be a defense mechanism in a way like my body is in such a constant state of alarm my brains just trying to protect me by taking away some of the sensations that cause it... I don't know probabrly not but its nice to think my brain would actually do something to benefit me for once rather than just plague me with anxiety all the time
You have to be capably receptive to Cbt for it to work which never would have happened on a benzo. As long as your proactively seeking to make a change with anxiety and not letting it rule your life anything would have at least a small chance of working depending on the person and how well they respond to it. Anythings worth a try and it beats taking those little hell tablets every day
hey were you able to find a solution to this??? I'm LITERALLY experience the SAME EXACT issue... I don't know why but it happened out of nowhere and its been like this for a couple weeks. I've since increased my uptake of vistaril which kinda relaxes me a bit. but I still ultimately feet like somethings off.. I'm used to feeling my heart pound..
I have the same problem. Sorry for my English, I am from Russia and I am not very good at English. I feel emptiness in my chest and that feeling makes me crazy and I want to panic. That started 3 months ago. I was in bed and a thought came to my mind "Why I don't feel my heartbeat?". So I checked my pulse and it was so weak, and I started to panic. Now I think every day about heart. Even when I do some activity or walk quickly I don't feel my heart. I pay so much attention to this feeling.