Hi all. Had like my 10th ecg today and all was fine. Still worried like hell. Still getting the little scratching/itching feeling in my chest and am always aware of my heart and what it's doing! Thought this would stop now. Will it be a long process to stop fixating in it???
Am also super aware of my heart ever since been hit with anxiety 8 months ago am going for my first ecg because of this symptom doctor putting it down to my anxiety but think cos a keep going they don't know what else to do with me so they're sending me for that does it take long it's defiantly your anxiety tho and it sucks I hate hearing my heart its horrible
Think all we can do is ignore.. at night I've been putting On background noise like rain sounds or water falls on you tube so a can fixate in that and not my heart beat as it's worse at night for me
Okay, time to take the bull by the horns and ask the doctor about anxiety meds and a therapist. You can't keep living like this, if left untreated it's only going to get worse. See somebody soon.
Les,
you have had 10 ECGs in they are all normal. That means you're heart is perfectly healthy.
I thing is, the more you fixate on your heart the more you're going to create symptoms that will scare you. Your brain does what you tell it to. So if you tell your brain there something wrong with your heart and you're going to get weird symptoms. Even if nothing is really wrong.
One thing to note is that any symptoms related to anxiety cannot hurt you. They cannot hurt your heart or anything else. So if you feel anything like rapid heart rate or pounding heart rate or skipping beats, it might feel funny but it's not going to hurt you. Because your heart is perfectly normal! The ECG does not lie. Your heart is fine.
what you are doing is overthinking things. And your mind is going to the negative because of anxiety. You need to turn that around!
I wasted 20 years of my life worrying just like you. Nothing bad ever happened and I could've been enjoying those years. Please don't do that to yourself it's just not worth it.
listen to some meditations on YouTube for anxiety. They help you separate negative thoughts from yourself. I do them a couple times a day.
One is called detachment from overthinking. Many to choose from and I think they could help you ❤️😁
Wow surprised you've waited 8 months. I went straight to A&E after my first "Heart Attack" (Panic Attack). Was petrified. Hope all is well, please do let me know how it goes.
A know it's cause they new it was anxiety I had all other tests come back clear and never really focused on my heart until recently that I can constantly hear it and with it racing sometimes when just getting up from sitting down like a rush a started panic more and more about heart they're saying it's most likely my anxiety as like a say I've been stuck wth really bad anxiety for 8 months now they took my blood pressure and listen to my heart but always say everything is fine so think with my 3rd time being in doctors with couple weeks they didn't know what else to do with me as a can't sleep good anymore it's really robbed me of a lot of days so hopefully after this ecg a can move on
I hope so. I got the ecg yesterday and still worried about my heart. Have horrendous pains still. I do suffer with acid though so perhaps it's more to do with that x
Yeah I had inflammation of the stomach lining at one point so I now watch what I eat as the pain can be unbearable and has had me in hospital.. i know it's hard to stop worrying I suffer health anxiety so I can relate that sometimes even when we get tested but yet still have the symptoms and it's hard for us to just say it's nothing when we still suffer.. but with continued help with doctors and counseling you will beat this and get through it.. so even if that pain does arise or your heart is freaking you out know that it's your anxiety and try your very best as hard as it is cause am guilty of it too to ignore..