So, I wake up in the middle of the night and I feel my heart very weak, but I guess it is just a sensation. Through the day I keep feeling on the left side - shoulder, arm, under arm and hand pain. I feel like my heart tickles a little bit painfully almost all the time. My neck semes hurt in a very weird way on my left side. Every 4 or 5 days my heart starts racing for about 3 to 8 minutes and I get really scared and I start to tremor and my heart seems very weak and it hurts. Anyone got this? Two weeks ago I was at the emergency room and they did a ekg and said I was fine but you can’t be sure because it wasn’t a detailed consultation, so on Monday I have a doctors appointment at a private doctor and they should do all the tests for my heart + blood tests, but I am so scared because I am afraid that I won’t survive until Monday.
I feel exactly the same as you described and even more . I suffer from very severe anxiety disorder and I was admitted in hospital with severe onset of palipatations. Doctors did all the tests and told me that there are no phisical problems with my heart. They told me that they think it is all caused by anxiety.
Denisa,
It’s anxiety. I’ve been hospitalized 2x for sweating then freezing my ears clogged severe neck pain tingling in my left fingers. It was horrible. I know what your going through I really thought I was dying. I’ve ham mri’s With and without contrast. Brain scans etc...
I went to several Dr’s my ophthalmologist set me up with a Neurologist who has helped me. He listened to me and told me it’s anxiety and I’m on celexa for 15 weeks now and I’m a new person. I found this forum going through the side effects of the celexa pill also known as citalopram.
I hope this helps you. Try meditation and walk every day drink water very important. And cut out caffeine. That was so hard for me but I did it.
Keep us posted how you are.
Will😎
Hi,
ECG's will only show something if it's actually happening at the time the machine is hooked up to you or you have a malfunctioning heart, it also records your heart rate. With chest pains like this it is always advisable to go to the emergency department to get checked out. They will then refer you on to a cardiologist or they will send you back to your GP to refer you on to a cardiologist, they will then decide which heart test(s) are the best for them. It could be anything from cardiac microvascular spasms, coronary artery spasms and other forms of angina to other heart problems such as heart disease, valves, chambers, etc etc
Panic/Anxiety attacks are always uncomfortable but never cause pain. I had suffered from panic/anxiety for 30 years, I've experienced all imaginable symptoms as you and everyone else, I've had the same results, nothing found in tests including blood tests. because of the nature of how our nervous system works under stress and how we interpret those feelings we have actually taught ourselves to think the worst.
I started experiencing chest pains, not discomfort like in a panic/anxiety state, it was chest pain, literally, but because doctors couldn't find anything put it straight down to panic/anxiety, I refuted their diagnosis, not that I could do anything about it, their diagnosis, or what they thought was going on. My GP referred me to a cardiologist as I had very high cholesterol, the cardiologist did his tests which included an angiogram because of the high cholesterol, my arteries were in pristine condition, he then ordered a more complex cholesterol blood test, he found that my lipid profile was really weird, they found that it was the hereditary form and he put several long names to it, he explained to me what was going on, he diagnosed me with the small blood vessels with in the heart going into spasms, they can't be seen via angiogram or seen by the naked eye and not curable, the spasms could be treated but I was warned that my body would build up a tolerance to the nitrates that usually stop the spasms. As the years went on the chest pains were getting worse, the diagnosis was changed to Prinzmetal angina, yet every time I presented to emergency department they couldn't find anything and still saying it was panic/anxiety, this one day, I was 45 at the time, I was put out into the waiting room after an ECG and blood test were done, 45 minutes later a nurse and doctor came and got me with a wheel chair, I asked why the chair, they said it's policy, once into a cubicle the doctor had informed me that I have had a heart attack at some stage during the day, it never showed up on the ECG but it showed up in the troponin blood test, when it doesn't show up on an ECG they call them NSTEMI's, I was in hospital for nearly a week. They do not treat it as anxiety now, they now know that I have to have a blood test on every presentation because nothing out of the ordinary shows up on the ECG. Your body knows when something is really wrong because pain is present along with the discomfort.
Samuels,
Wow, you have opened my eyes with your episodes. I’m glad you are ok!
Will😎