I am sooooo tired of feeling the way I feel. I feel like I am going to have a heart attack at any moment. Then I'm scared to die and leave my kids. I have posted on here two different times. A lot of people are experiencing the same things that i am and it helps to know I'm not alone. I have a very stressful life. Family problems, five kids, no sleep, the list goes on and on. Anyways I can't understand how they keep telling me "it's anxiety" with all the symptoms I'm have. They mimic a heart attack to the t. I'm tired of my chest feeling like a muscle is pulled, pain in my left arm, sweating, nervous, anxious. I get tired of the everyday feeling of doom. I wish it would go away. I have had test but I still feel like there is something wrong with my heart. There has to be. It p*sses me off they they haven't found anything and they are gonna let me die. I have five kids to live for!!!!
You're in panic mode. Convinced you have heart problems. Convinced you are going to die.
It's hard to believe that anxiety disorder can cause such awful physical symptoms, I know. But it can and it does. You won't feel better until you accept it is AD. Then the stress of heart problems and dying will evaporate and you can deal with the anxiety. You have to see it for what it is and not what it isn't.
Most Ad sufferers are convinced they have something life threatening in the beginning. So what you feel is natural but misguided. Your life is hectic and you're tired which doesn't help. But wishing it would go away is a form of fear and panic and it won't go until you accept what is wrong with you as opposed to imagining you're about to have a heart attack
If you browse through the Forum you will find many people have had unfounded thoughts and fears like yours. This should reassure you somewhat. But the first step is letting go of the imagined illness and accepting AD for what it is.
I'm sorry your having such a hard time right now I don't know what to say they will help but I wanted you to know your not alone. I have the same symptoms and I'm not convinced it's not my heart either. My Dr is sick of looking at me as I'm there way too much but I'll keep going til I get my answers I'm really believing I have a thyroid condition that's not being taken seriously that's causing all these symptoms and anxiety. I've posted on thyroid boards and my labs and every single reply says I need to be treated for thyroid. Maybe you should have thyroid checked low normal results can cause symptoms and that's where I am low normal results and suffering. I'm requesting to see specialist at app today. Cause we all know our bodies if you feel it's something more keep at them. I know mines more then just anxiety and thyroid trouble will cause heart issues and a anxiety list goes on.good luck to you
You are not alone in this. This touched my heart. Its a horrible, awful disorder that produces very real symptoms. You hold on and lets all hope someone figures this all out. In the meantime all we can do is see a therapist/doctor to help. Some use medicines that can help it too, its a preference with the meds and if they work out. They have alternative doctors too, they have a different take on how to help this. When Drs tell you its all just "anxiety" they are just saying they cant fix it because your actual organs are all in good shape. Which is a good thing but not helpful in how it feels.They dont know how to fix it. We all need a reset button.
Hi Christian, I'm sorry to hear you are feeling like this. I too have very similar symptoms, plus additional ones 
I am convinced I am going to have a heart attack and keep getting told my symptoms are muscular. And then I know that a lot of the symptoms we are experiencing get worse with anxiety, it's a vicious cycle. The more you worry about your health, the worse your symptoms get, so you worry more, and then symptoms get worse. I don't want to waste the doctors time if there is nothing wrong but I know I don't feel right and haven't done for a while. But then going to the doctors makes me even more anxious, my blood pressure is always above normal when I'm in there but they don't seem bothered. They have put me on a list to have an EKG but not heard anything baout having it done yet. I think they are saying that more to put my mind at ease than theirs. One thing I know I need to stop doing is reading about my symptoms online because then i have a million other things to think might be wrong with me.
I'm currently trying to eat and drink really well, almost giving my body a detox and giving it everything I've read it should be having to help my symptoms. I guess if you're putting all good in, then you'll start to feel all good. It's not working yet, but I guess these things take time. Do you have anyone in your personal life that you can talk to face to face? I find that when I keep it all in (which happens a lot) my anxiety gets a million times worse, but when my partner really tries to get me to talk, even though he knows I can never explain exactly how I'm feeling, I tend to feel a little better because I've told him how terrible I'm feeling.
Have you had an ultra sound done on your heart? I ask this because I have Miltra Valve Prolapse it's a non serious non life threatening heart condition. Yet it will cause chest pains, heart palpitations,feelings of skipping a beat etc. also I recently discovered it will cause Anxiety,Panic Attacks, Depression and fatigue due to imbalance of the autonomic nervous system. Completely harmless though. Sometimes a doctor can hear a click when he listens but not all the time because they didn't hear one on me. They didn't discover it until I had an ultra sound done on my heart back when I was 20 I'm now 27. Other than that my heart is perfectly healthy and that condition is non life threatening and will not cause a heart attack or anything else it's just uncomfrotable when it decideds to do it. It's just Anxiety though I know the feeling and had the same worries about me also. Try to relax.
I feel the exact same as you every single day. Been to the doctors numeruous times to be told its muscle but my chest burns and i get pain in my left arm and my back? My anxiety convinces myself im having a heart attack,
Aso have the doctors tomorrow about my chest and the same thing
Ive wasted doctors appointments numerous times but i want to get to the bottom of why i feel the way i do!
Keep strong. Only a message away if you ever need reasurrance or someone to speak to!
I'm so with you.
I am daily going through panic attacks and debilitating anxiety fears where I to am convinced I'm going to die and leave my three kids with no Mom.
I'm even taking medication but just recently I seem to be going backwards.
When I was mid anxiety flow yesterday I googled this forum and read through some of the threads. It really helped me to see that I wasn't alone and that what I was experiencing was so common.
You are one step ahead of me and have been tested which is great. If you've been tested and the professionals have confirmed there is nothing serious going on take that as a major positive and as clarification that it is the devil that is anxiety playing u up.
I think I would feel so relieved I had nothing serious it would calm my fears and I could try to concentrate on defeating my anxiety issues.
Just take one day at a time or even just one hour xxx