The reason it's best not to look up symptoms is that many symptoms that are common with anxiety are also common in many other conditions. So you could needlessly scare yourself. Then people start thinking about it over and over and over and become more anxious and get more symptoms. That's why I suggest not to google anything.
you're definitely not alone! I have had your same symptoms and many more.
The rapid heart rate is a classic sign of anxiety. What happens is that when you're anxious, your brain sends out a hormone that speeds up your heart rate. That's because your brain thinks you were in danger and speeding up the heart rate sends more oxygen to your body. This is called the fight or flight response . it feels uncomfortable but it cannot hurt you.
My symptoms started in my 20s. I had twitching of the muscles, ringing in my ear, chest pressure, Needles and pinsfeeling in my arms and legs, floaters in my eyes, racing heart, . Ever since I can remember which is about kindergarten, I have always had anxiety. Over the years it build up and build up and then literally in one day I got all of those symptoms! I actually had a nervous system breakdown . My body just could not handle the stress anymore. I thought I had a terrible disease. I did not have any support over the Internet because this was back in the late 80s. I thought I was the only one in the world with this because I didn't know anybody that suffered from this. Very scary! My dad took me to a neurologist and everything came out normal. He told me that it's all stress and anxiety and that I should take a vacation.
my symptoms eventually died down but because that was a huge first episode, they lingered for months and months. A terrible time in my life. After that, my symptoms lessened but I would still get locational twitching, fatigue, Eye floaters and weird feeling in my head. I just told you all that because I wanted you to know that your symptoms are very common with anxiety and stress. Literally millions of people in the world suffer from what we have. Today I am in my 50s and feel like it I can pretty much control my anxiety when I feel it creeping up. It will never completely go away because that's just how my brain works. However I can really minimize the symptoms or have them completely go away when I use the audio meditations, eat healthy, exercise, socialize and stay positive as much as I can.
if you can get a book called mindfulness meditation, it is an excellent read and teaches us how to separate negativity from our own thinking.
I always suggest a visit with your doctor just to get things checked out. Then if everything's OK it's time to start working on the anxiety. Have you ever tried the meditations on YouTube? They really calm me down. They have them on anxiety, depression, panic attacks, etc.
when you get a symptom, the worst thing you can do is react with anxiety because that will bring on more anxiety. What you do is acknowledge the symptom and then go on doing what else you were doing. Even if you still feel it I don't give it any attention . There are several videos on YouTube that teach you how to react to symptoms. It does work.
I hope you feel better soon!