HI, I would appreciate any answers on this as I am losing my mind. I have health anxiety. But for the last week I have been having this almost constant heaviness and pain in my heart... It's a great discomfort and heaviness under my left breast bone, veering to the left sometimes.
I am 19 years old (female) and this is the only thing making me anxious which leads me to think it is actually something wrong with my heart as I'm not stressed about anything and it's different from the sharp pains Ive had experienced before.
I'm nearly in tears from the stress of it all it literally feels like my heart is getting a stitch or a cramp and at any moment it's going to spasm and kill me. I read that a common feeling of a heart attack is heaviness in the chest? Please can someone help me. Thank you
I'm a 19 year old male and suffer from anxiety; mainly health anxiety. I have constant chest pain, sometimes a burning pain or a sharp heavy pain on the left side of my chest and I'm Convinced it's my heart although I've had ECGs and blood tests.
I've found excersise is very helpful, go to the doctors if your worried just to be sure although I get constant pain caused by anxiety.
i have exams for college now so won't be home for a week to see my doctor I think i'll go insane with worry till then!
Unlike what you have felt, these pains aren't sharp its dull and heavy and feels like a very bad cramp. I am so so worried as it doesn't scream anxiety to me
I know that anxiety can minifest itself in a lot of ways inlcuding pain in various regions, do you spend much time at the computer? Even not sitting properly can give you chest pains, so it may well not be your heart.
I really dont think it's posture pain. It's a dull heaviness in my heart that twinges and really hurts at times. It comes and goes as well so I could be perfect for 5/10 minutes. I'm just really scared theres something very wrong with my heart and cant go to the doctor till next week
Hi Niamh1995, I wanted to tell you if you were having a heart attack the pain wouldn't come and go or last for two weeks you must have some kind of a strained muscle or gas . Hope that helps Renée
Go see your doctor and explain how you feel! I have bad health anxiety and always think my heart is about to just stop! I even had a panic attack last night just before I slept. I had some blood tests done this morning and was suppose to have an ECG test but unfortunately the machine was broke! Have you spoke to any counselling services?
hi yes Ive seen a cognitive behavioural therapist. I have exams at the moment so wont be able to see my doc till next week and the pain in my heart doesnt feel like anxious shooting chest pains. its dull and heavy
hi niamh. sorry to hear ur having radiating chest pain. whilst ur very young to have cardiac probs., however, i think it's important that u have it checked out coz of the type of pain ur having. u could phone the non-emergency NHS line 111 & they'll take u through a question list specific to ur pain & will be able to tell u whether u need tests or not.
all good luck with having it sorted & with ur exams.
i've only had one session so far and another next week but hopefully it lessens my anxiety some bit.
I'm going to make an app with my college doctor in the morning as I now feel like there's a lot of acid building up in my stomach which isn't helping the chest pain. Thanks for your help
Sounds like your just having a panic attack from the anxiety. It's not your heart, it's just the muscle around the heart that causes that pain, but I'm not doctor so if you feel like the pain is unbearable I would get checked out. But it sounds like just a panic attack which cannot hurt you. They are just scary. I've had 100's of them with pains in my chest. It's horrible but you will get through it.