I honestly never really believed anxiety and panic attacks were a thing, thought people were just being over dramatic and looking for attention, but around December of last year, I had this huge panic attack, went to the ER and scanned my lungs and heart, came back fine. Over the months I’ve been having small attacks here and there, nothing too bad but I didnt realize I should avoid Google, and now I have such anxiety about my health. I drank heavily, like a lot, everyday, 5-6 days a week for 2-3 years, I’ve since cut back drastically, only once or twice a week and it’s usually my days off, used to smoke cigarettes, I only vape now. I feel like this light but sharp pain in left arm, feeling that organs all around my body are hurting, constantly have to check my body for I don’t even know what, whenever it happens I go to the bathroom and put on my podcast until it goes away, sometimes it’s quick, sometimes I’m in there for a while. With all due respect, what the f**k is happening to me?
You're just experiencing very common symptoms of anxiety! I can tell you from my own personal experience, it is AMAZING what your mind can do to your body - in good ways but also bad. I've had so many different physical symptoms over the years from just my anxiety. There was a few months where I was having chest pains, they hurt so much it was painful to even laugh. Then I started getting a numb feeling in my arm and freaked out that I had heart issues, so I went to urgent care and they did an EKG. They told me I was completely fine and I swear as soon as they told me that the chest pains were gone haha. I also had a period of a few months where I was having horrible muscle tension in my neck/shoulders and cluster headaches along with dizzyness. I thought I had a tumor or something in my head bc the headaches were so uncomfortable and lasted for days. But nope! Fine again haha. It's veryyyy frustrating but I think over time you just start to realize that it is only the anxiety and you learn to cope with it. Hopefully for you this is just a temporary phase and you feel better soon =)
Yea after awhile I’ve jus coped with it but last year I had gotten symptoms I’ve never had before so for months I was freaking out constantly like is it really something wrong with me now and it since then they haven’t bothered me. Sometimes they do but not to often.