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for 21 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1

Hi, I am also new to this, and I have been suffering from panic attacks from the age of 19, I am 24 years of age now, I think of getting a heart attack all the time and that what seems to bring on the panic attack/anxiety feeling.Everyday at work I think I might get one what if?, I have had two check ups on my heart this year, and still nervous that something is wrong.

for 21 år siden 0 +0 / -0 31

My Mom Died last year of heart related problems.... A little after her death, I began to think every little pain in my chest was going to kill me....sometimes I still feel that way. Even as I write this I'm fighting off an attack. God I hate this....I keep trying to tell myself ill be ok...but its hard...even other pains and things I feel I think there is someting wrong with me...therapy helped a little, but I have a long way to go and havnt been in months. I just want to be Normal again :(

for 21 år siden 0 +0 / -0 5

hi, i have the same problem every pain i get i think its my heart. i can't stand it!! i think mine all started when i was a little girl. my dad died at 32 yrs old. of a heart attack. i remember playing at my grandmothers and laying on the floor holding my chest thinking i was having what my dad had. now i know it must have been a panic attack. but now being older i still get a pain in my chest or back or anywhere else that may be heart related sends me into panic and anxiety for days, its very hard for me to come out of it when it starts, i just did it again last week was sick for days. i went back into councling again with my doctors.

for 22 år siden 0 +0 / -0 90

Thanks Michelle, I'm sure you're right! Actually, not long ago I found out that my cousin has been having panic attacks for years, just like me. And we never knew about each other's problems! It's just not the sort of thing people go around telling. Actually, being open about it has helped me a lot. I had always been kind of embarrassed about it, but I find most people are very understanding. Don't know if this is something you can do in your work context though. You said you sometimes feel panicky in meetings, I suppose you couldn't just tell your colleagues what's happening? Marianne

for 22 år siden 0 +0 / -0 61

Marrieanne, Guess what you are normal. I found something very interesting at work the other day. When I first came back to work after being off of a long leave, I was approached by one of my coworkers who has a very simmular problems as me, and then again last week I found out that there was another person. I am begining to relize that this is far more common than non common, so I think you are normal well as normal as me. I hope that you feel better. You sound like you have had a very frustrating time latley. Michelle

for 22 år siden 0 +0 / -0 90

Hi Anne-Marie, Yep, I know, and that's exactly what I told Seahorse. I KNOW I'm catastrophising, I KNOW it's 99.9% more likely to be indigestion than a heart attack. I KNOW all that. I DO self talk and relaxation exercises. It's not the understanding that's my problem, the problem is that even though I understand I'm still anxious and panicky. I've had this for 21 years now, and believe me, I've tried all the obvious. But it's just an automatic reaction, I get a tweak somewhere or I think 'what if I had a pain now?' and off I go. It's like there are two people in me, the reasonable one and the scared one, and the scared one normally shouts much louder. As for doctors, I find they normally can't help me much. Don't know about the US but over here in Britain they are incredibly overworked. You get three minutes to present your case and then you're out again. When I first had this particular pain I went to an emergency doctor because it was new and painful and I was scared to death. First I had to debate with them on the phone if I was allowed to come at all. Then they had me wait for over an hour. I finally saw a very unfriendly doctor who pressed my stomach and listened to my chest, found nothing and just told me that very often with chest pains you never find out what's causing them. Bye bye, don't come again. Michelle, thanks for the kind offer! Luckily the pain hasn't come back quite as severly and I've been ok since then. I agree, it's when the mind isn't occupied that the anxious thoughts sneak up on you, and it's so automatic I often don't realise it. I find sometimes when I'm really busy and elated and got lots of 'good' adrenalin sloshing about I can have quite severe pains and I just let them be, they register and are forgotten. But when my mind is not so busy, eg during a long journey, it just takes hold of me and won't let go. I've even chatted up strangers on a plane just to keep my mind busy. But you can't be in a constant frenzy, life just isn't like that, there are many more quiet moments than busy ones. I'm just so sick and tired of it! I want to be 'normal'! Marianne

for 22 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1062

You mind jumped to the conclusion that it was a heart attack? A sharp pain like that is associated with lots of conditions, including gall stones, acid reflux and others. Have ing it checked out is the best answer. -- Anne-Marie, Site Administrator

for 22 år siden 0 +0 / -0 61

Marrianne, I can relate to the fear of symptoms creeping up on you. I find what helps me in situations like that is to talk myself down when it does creep up and I think you hit the key word board. I find that if my mind is not occupied I begin to think about the what if's even if I don't always relize that I am doing it. I hope that you are doing ok. I know that it can be very frustrating to feel as though your body is betraying you. Hang in there, things have a way of working themselvs through. If you need to talk you can send me an email: macgarner@shaw.ca ;p

for 22 år siden 0 +0 / -0 90

Well there I was telling Seahorse all about how to cope with being a hypochondriac not two hours ago, and now here I sit trembling and scared and just wanting to cry... I was at work sitting at my desk minding my own business, feeling fine if slightly bored, when suddenly I get this sharp pain in my chest, right in the centre, don't know if it is my heart or my back or my stomach. Had to get up and walk around, and it went away after a few minutes, but now I'm just scared it will come back. What can I do? I've had it before and I'm sure it's nothing serious. Anyone got any suggestions? I fell like I can never feel save in my body again... :80:

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