You are not alone...a lot of times the anxiety feels like a 'burden' on my chest or perhaps my heart....don't worry Don -- you will be fine...just take it easy and breathe....When my anxiety gets to a high my chest starts hurting first -- and I think I am having a heart attack (again I am telling myself the worst case scenario)...but in reality I think it is the breathing that helps me...
I hope this helps:-)
Hey Don,cool to see a guy post the ladies are great but not to many post.Anyways bro im 26 and im a heart freak to.I will not on some days to do jack that will get my heart rate up.Like you i had the tests and like you i think we think they might have missed something.Being tough is hard to do brother when you feel the pain and its real,or heart palps etc..Anyways bro mine gets tight in the left rib cage area,breast bone area..I will check it all day to see if its tender to the touch..i hate i move and i feel a twinch in my chest its like ok,its my heart or a miuscle..as im posting i just felt something lol..its normal bro i think are muscles get so uptight that they hurt after ahwile i get tight in my chest..plus being layed off,and lazy ffrom anxiety i think im out of shape..i hope i helped but probally not when i cant even convince myself..later...
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Almost ALL of my panic symptoms have to do with chest pain. I can handle anything but I can NOT handle pain in my chest and I get it quite often. I have very bad acid reflux so often my chest is burning and hurting. It hurts in my shoulders, arms...back. Throws me into a panic everytime.
thank you it is just very scary to feel chest tightness at the age of 31 just from getting up quick, i used to live in the gym and now i am scared to do anything that gets my heart rate up
Hey Don!
I get this feeling also! I think it's because we don't realize that we tense up all the time so when we stand up real quick, all those muscles move and they hurt from being tense. What I try to do is remind myself throughout the day to relax my shoulders. It seems to help. Most of our tension is in our shoulders, upper back and chest, so that's where we feel it the most. Try to remember to relax your shoulders every now and again. And do a lot of stretching - that seems to help also.
Try to relax and take it easy. Don't worry about your wife getting frustrated with you. They can't possibly understand because they don't go through it. I find that being as open, honest and as reassuring as possible with my husband concerning this nightmare seems to help quite a bit. I have him read things off the Panic Program (especially the introduction and chapter one since they explain the most about what is going on and why). The Panic Program is a free 12 week course teaching Cognitive Behavior Therapy offered on this website in case you weren't aware. I've noticed he is more patient with me now that he knows what's going on. It's the unknown that causes problems. Try printing stuff off and have your wife read them so she can understand better - I hope it helps.
Hang in there! You are not alone!!!
today hav been a very bad day it has been one big long panic attack and seems like it will only get worse tonight!!! it started this morning becasue everytime i stand up real quick my upper chest hurts and gets tight and i am scared that it is my heart and this is causing one of the worse days i ever had becasue it is a revolving circle my chest hurts then i get panic.... i just want to relax... has anyone ever felt chest tightness when they get up to fast ??? i have just had a stress test and numerous EKGs and everything is good said the doctors... so does anyone know what i am talking about?
my wife gets mad at me for this, she is sick of me having panic attacks and no gets mad and upset and yells and that makes it worse too.
