I am not sure where to put these symptoms at this point! Is it depression? Is it anxiety? Is it COVID? Am I just not going to make it? These are the questions I have been asking myself as I am very alarmed. For years I have struggled with stress in my life. I stress out about everything. It has completely ruined my life. I stress about work. I stress about finding someone and being in a relationship. When I then have one of these things or both, I still stress about others things that might be negative in my life. This past year, I got an offer for a new job. I lost it from the COVID pandemic. A good friend and mentor (that I worked with) had passed away from COVID. The media work that I did for a company was also on his computer. It may be lost it may not be. I don't even know. I felt that 2020 was going to be a good year at first, but for all of us it has shown to be something different. With everything going on, I find myself to be somewhat fine considering all of the negative stuff I mentioned above. Yet, I find myself in a difficult situation. I am freaking out because I having been having "multiple health problems" and I am not sure what it could be. Since COVID, I have ran to the ER once and Urgent care four times. I thought I was having a heart attack. (My father had a sudden heart attack and passed away at 52 when I was a baby. ) I had left arm pain, my heart was racing and I felt weak and tired. I went to the ER, they did an EKG and it was abnormal. The doctor told me to go the ER (despite the pandemic going on) and they did blood work on me (kidney function, liver function, electrolytes and searched for blood clots). I also had a chest xray and all was good. They said I was really dehydrated. I followed up with a cardiologist and my cholesterol was fine. I also had an electrocardiogram done and wore a heart monitor for six days and the results came out fine for this. I moved on and just ignored the symptoms. I am now struggling and finding myself at a tough time months later. The heart is still racing. When I got to bed an hit the pillow, I fall right asleep and then after a few minutes of falling asleep, I wake up with my heart racing to the point that I'm crying and I feel this weird adrenaline feeling in my stomach and chest. This cycle keeps happening two-four times and then eventually I am out. I then notice that it can skip days, or if I am lucky a week and then it happens all over again while I'm a sleep. When I am up I am feeling this weird adrenaline sensation 24/7 and it doesn't stop. I can eat dinner, go for a walk, work at home and yet it still happens. I am going on dates and hanging out with friend and I feel like death. As if I am an old man stuck in a young body. As if I am just going to pass out. This feeling comes from my diaphragm. It's right below the ribs. It's like I take a deep breathe and can't get air in or out of my diaphragm. I feel like I'm always on a roller coaster. I can be minding my own business, having fun and not worrying about it and it still hits me. I am at the point where I can't live like this anymore. I am 29 years old - male. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't care for drinking. I have also been tested for STD's and that has also come back negative. I live alone, so I know that doesn't help my sanity. What I can tell you is that my symptoms mostly make me feel like I can't breathe from stomach. I also feel nauseous and as I said the heart sometimes either races or doesn't - and yet feels like it is. I am not coughing, I have a great appetite, there is no blood and I haven't ever fainted. I also find that my body is very warm and yet my temp is always 97 or 98.
you sound exactly like! im so sorry you are experiencing this i really am. i wish i could help both myself and you. my doctors say i have anxiety and its driving my symptoms
As soon as I began to read your Heart Symptoms it was like reading about myself. Let me tell you one thing, Anxiety can make your body do CRAZY things that it is so hard to wrap your head around. What you describe with the falling asleep is me EVERY SINGLE NIGHT! It has got to a point where I do not even fear it anymore because I am so used to it. Like you I have had my heart checked out and all is fine (I am 24) but I experience many "heart" issues related to my anxiety. I too have been under long term stress for years and the Pandemic made me fear my heart because I was reading and hearing in the Media about it causing heart attacks in young people. The past 3 weeks I lost nearly 2 stone and was even admitted into Hospital because my mental health made my body that physically sick. Could not eat, sleep, had severe upset tummy every day, could barely walk, racing heart 24/7, shaky, trembly and generally very unwell. The thing with your breathing I relate to. What happens is when you feel any unease your breathing will increase without you even really realising it. So with me I begin to breathe through my mouth without realising and this upsets the "natural" breathing cycle. It basically makes your body chemically unbalanced and you release too much C02. It is called "Chronic Hyperventillation Syndrome". I was basically told I had this when I was in Hospital by a Respiratory Physiotherapist and it explains so many of the unpleasant sensations. It is a classic symptom to feel like you cannot get a deep breath when you have this Or if you find yourself "sighing" a lot or taking big breaths. For me it happens even when a small negative thought comes into my head and like i said it is all totally subconscious. Keep an eye on your breathing and you may find you have the same issues!
By any chance, do you also get this weird crawling sensation on the sides of your head?
It's like a feeling of goose bumps. It's hard to explain.
Does that mean you are feeling better now? I am sorry to hear you are also going through this as well.
By any chance, do you also get this weird crawling sensation on the sides of your head?
It's like a feeling of goose bumps. It's hard to explain.
yes ! i get crawling , prickling, and water sensations in my head. i wake up everyday hoping to feel like my old self and i just cry. now im dealing with this symptom of numbness in my head , chest, and neck. ,, how are you doing ?
I am 95% better yes. I am being investigated for some other illnesses (related to my B12) so that could be a contributing factor but if all is okay then I can safely say it was ALL anxiety and stress related.
Yes I still get lots of tingling in my scalp. It comes and goes but is there more often than not. I get tingling in my hands a lot too, especially during the night.
For an hour I had these weird crawling feeling on my left side of my head.
Later I went for a run and lasted an hour with running on and off with walking.
I felt great!
I came back and started to make dinner and felt like I couldn't breathe again from my diaphragm and the heart racing started too.
I don't even know how it feels to go one day feeling 100%.
I have a stress test Tuesday and then in two weeks I am seeing a primary.
What would I get tested for?
I already had a CAT scan and a brain wave test. My eyes were fully checked too because I get auras.
For my heart, I had a heart monitor for six days, echocardiogram, EKG and blood work done for blood clots, kidney function, liver function, and electrolytes.
Additional blood work was done for STD's.
All of this is fine!
What do I get tested for now? - Diabetes/Sugar? - B12 and Vitamins? - Lyme Disease? - Adrenal Glands? - TB? - Corona Virus? - Tetanus?
This is getting ridiculous now!
i havent felt 100% since march! i wonder the same thing . i feel helpLess . the doctors wont help. as i type i feel like things are crawling down my head down my face and neck