Is this anxiety?

[gemp54]

Hi all, i've been feeling a bit rubbish now for a while and i'm wondering if this could be anxiety related. I have endometriosis and after having a change in my symptoms i was told that my endometriosis may have spread to my diaphragm which was quite upsetting news. Since then i've started getting a burning sensation in my chest which is almost every day and comes and goes but i can sometimes feel like i have it for hours at a time. My GP thinks its reflux related (i already have reflux) but this doesnt feel like heartburn and the new meds they've put me on dont seem to touch it. I've noticed over previous weeks that it seems to get worse or come back when i think about it. For example last night i woke up at 3am and felt really good. When my alarm then went off at 7:30 i felt fine for about 5minutes then after the realisation i had to get out of bed and star work it started again. I looked up chest pain and anxiety and the only thing i saw was about panic attacks but it dpesnt feel like i'm having a panic attack. Does anyone else get this? I'm wondering if the news of the endometriosis has started this off. Thanks

[Brielle-White]

Hi, looking at the scenario, your endometriosis has spread to the diaphragm and that may cause chest pain and burning sensation.. more precisely pleuritic chest pain. But this would have been worsen by your anxiety..

what is your breathing pattern? is it too fast? if yes, this is called hyperventilation due to anxiety and this tires your chest muscles causing even more chest tightness and pain and that can stay around all day.

[gemp54 in reply to Brielle-White]

Thanks for your reply. My breathing seems ok but i have noticed the last couple of days that since i realised this chest pain could bw qnxoety it seems to have eased off so i suspect some of it at least is me getting stressed. I did wlnder about the endo causing it because since it spread i've had an awful pain under my shoulder blade like i mixture of nerve pain amd a pulled muscle and the chest pain is more focussed directly jn front of where the back and shoulder pain is. I've been booked in for a laparoscopy to investigate the endo but unfortunately due to covid its looking like a very long wait i suspect its a combination of a few things so hopefully if i can get my anxiety under control it will start to improve. X