Okay so about 2 weeks ago I had a sore on my arm which I panicked about immediately thinking it was skin cancer, since I live in Florida. I’ve had health anxiety for about 2 years but I haven’t been anxious about anything health related in months. So naturally I seriously had assumed I had skin cancer. Went to the doctor just to realize it was a skin infection and easily treatable which temporarily cleared my mind. The whole couple days before I got it checked I worried about skin cancer all day. So when I was able to confirm it wasn’t I thought I was fine. Then now I have this new chest pain that I came to realize 2 days ago. In the morning while eating cereal I felt a dull pain in the middle of my chest while swallowing. Since then I have been fine while doing anything else, no chest pain, but when I eat/drink and swallow, the same pain comes back. It’s almost like that feeling you get when you swallow a chip without chewing on it then it was down your throat and you can still feel it. So throughout the day I’m fine but everytime I eat, it makes me almost have a panic attack because, knowing me, my initial response is that I have cancer in my throat or chest and the tumor is causing the pain while the food hits it. I don’t even know if that makes sense but that’s the stuff that rushes through my mind. Does anyone know what this swallowing pain in the center of my chest could be?
I also wanted to add that I’ve been slightly gassy, as in gas passing through my stomach or chest, especially after eating, actually when I do belch it makes my chest in that area feel slightly better, just a note.
Honestly I think the same irrational way about my symptoms and I have experienced a similar if not the same throat sensation. I know its hard but the more you focus on a anxiety symptom the worse it can be. My throat felt blocked like that just two days ago and I panicked all day until I moved on to another symptom. It will be okay
Exactly, sometimes it gets to the point where I can be irrational about symptoms