I am new here and feel that explaining my situation may help. I am a hypochondriac when it comes to my health. All I do is constantly worry about my heart and wondering whether I am going to have a heart attack or stroke. Now, I have always suffered from mental health but this is a completely new form of anxiety for me. I consider myself healthy but for some reason I can not convince myself that this is the case. I create my own symptoms it seems; dizziness, heart palpatations, headaches and a weird feeling in my chest. All feelings that make me feel like in my mind it is more serious. My blood pressure is all over too. Sometimes it is perfectly normal and then high, so now I am concerned my blood pressure is high. I cannot seem to stop worrying. I been to my accident and emergency four times over the last year and a half with chest pains, heart flutters and everytime checks are normal. I have had blood tests, ECGs and they are all normal. Anyone ever experienced this before? I feel like there is always something wrong with me. I am a really active person too. I walk a lot, exercise a lot and it never removes the doubt in my mind. I am obsessed with my heart and always check my heartbeat.
this is completely me, been having chest pains out of nowhere. all tests have come back fine, it’s a total mystery and an anxiety symptom that was new to me until last summer. i put it down to my posture getting worse from working from home but it’s still very anxiety inducing, partly because test results came back normal… you’re not alone!
I have been there over the years. it comes in crazy waves that last months and months. For whatever its worth, I went to the ER twice, had stress tests, etc. i was totally fine but still felt like minor chest pain was a heart attack (at other points in my life I have thought I had pancreatic cancer, brain tumors, als, etc–all resulting in batteries of negative tests).
trust me as somebody who has been there, done that, and will probably be there again one day. it gets better. with time, you will realize you are not having a heart attack or whatever is causing you anxiety. keep doing your regular checkups. talk to your primary care about doing them every 3 to 6 months instead of every year. stick to that.
life goes on and i wish ypu the best.
iv had health anxiety for many many yrs. it goes away for yrs then comes back. iv trued all the not giving in to the anxiety stuff and my opinion is it doesnt work. my advice get the tests rule out the physical stuff. only then will u accept it truly for anxiety only then it will go away xxx