Every night, when I'm about to sleep I'll wake up with a very sharp pain on my left top side of my chest and my shoulder. When I wake up I feel like I'm dying and I stay up and wait for couple of seconds (10-30 secs) then everything goes back to normal. My doctor initially diagnosed it that it's acid reflux and I took the medicine for 3 months. But it got worst and it doesn't matter if I sleep at night or day. Every time I'm trying to sleep, it wakes me up and I go back to sleep again (as I know it's not killing me) and it happens for first hour my sleep then everything goes ok till morning.
I got an appointment with a sleep specialist for next month to monitor 1 or 2 night of my sleep. But this is getting worse every day. Now even when I'm awake I can feel some pain around my chest and neck/shoulder.
I don't know if it's anxiety or not or even if there is any cure for it.
I would appreciate if anyone has an idea what that is or have heard of similar cases.
I understand your pain and the fear that you feel, I understand that you feel like a prisoner to what you feel. But your liberation is inside of you the time for your anxiety to end is now it took me years to escape the “symptoms” and sometimes I still feel them. You are stronger you will overcome break your chains and live your life create a new world where worry doesn’t exist
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Are you sleeping in a weird position or even just in a position that could cause your muscles to tighten?
I've noticed a handful of times while sleeping I wake up with sharp pain in my chest. It's so painful I end up like hunching over, and it kinda hurts to breath in and out. But then once I do get up it slowly starts going away and by an hour or 2 its completely gone.
The only thing I can think is I sleep on my side, so maybe I'm squishing my chest muscle too much and it's getting like a muscle cramp/charlie horse type thing. So strange.
I have had chest pains from anxiety though too (not while sleeping tho, while awake).
it sounds to me like your tensing up... with the shoulder and neck pain along with the chest pain.... do me a favor and see if you can catch yourself during the day tensing your neck and shoulder muscles up. I do this a lot and I have neck and shoulder pain and chest tightness and pain. I catch my self tighten my muscles up all the time.... it sucks