Dear All
Have been dealing with anxiety for years now. But last one year has been really rough.
Health anxiety has taken over my life. I find myself worrying about ailments matching my physical symptoms.
Yesterday, I had a burning sensation in my chest and it triggered panic attack. I couldn’t sleep and kept waiting for sunrise.
Although the heart burn has subsidised but my mind is now hooked on heart palpitations. Has anyone experienced this?
Thank you so much for your time and inputs.
P. S. Had already been to Emergency few weeks back and ECG came back alright.
what is happening is that your anxiety is putting negative thoughts in your mind causing you to worry about physical symptoms being something serious.
Heart palpitations due to anxiety is the result of the release of adrenaline. It is harmless. It is also very common in people with anxiety including myself. So the fact that your ECG was normal should give you some relief.
the thing about anxiety symptoms is first of all, they are harmless even though they feel scary and weird. Secondly don’t look up your symptoms online because that will create misery for no reason.
You can take just about any symptoms and it can go along with hundreds of conditions that are not serious. For example, somebody has a headache and right away they think they have a brain tumor. The fact is that headaches can be caused by so many other things that are not serious and 99% of Headaches are in the non-serious category .
so when we worry out of fear, that is an emotion. Emotions are not reliable and they are not factual. What we have to do is think of what the actual facts are. and one of those facts is that your heart is fine.
another good example is the burning sensation you had in your chest. The most logical explanation for that is either heartburn or anxiety. And you already know that nothing bad happened from it.
So it’s a matter of training our mind to think more positive and factual . worry is the most useless emotion that there is. It’s like sitting in a rocking chair. It keeps you busy but get you nowhere. trust me, I’ve been through this and wasted many years with worry. I can never get back one of those days. Don’t do this to yourself! You have a 99.9% chance that you are very healthy. As soon as you get a negative scary thought, stop it immediately and do something else.
Stay busy and active because you are over thinking this. I do hope you feel better soon take care
hi you could request your gp to do a 24 hour urine metanephrines or catecholamines test. your symptoms could be caused by way to much adrenalin in your system. its caused by a tumor of the adrenal gland called a pheochromacytoma its extreamly rare so doctors do not think to look for them the other tumor that can do this is a paraganglioma. they pump out hormones a pheo os always in the adrenal medulla but a para can be any where else between eyes and thighs so if your levals did come back high you would then need a ct or mri with contrast but needs to be eyes to thighs not just abdomen.
the reason I know this is because I have pheo and it took years for them to diagnose previous to it I was fobbed of as depression and anxiety most pheo patients are. these episodes at night are a big symptom of it it’s to do with ether lying on the tumor and compressing it so it pumps out more or the sleep wake cycle. there is a very good support group on face book for this I am one of the admins on it.
if you read on line about it you will find it just gives you the basics it dosent shoe all the symptoms and a lot of the info is wrong and outdated one of the websites to look at is the pheo para allience they work with endocrinologists from all over the world. if your leavals did come back high you need a referl to a endocrinologist and it’s important that they are experienced In pheo.