Heart problem or really just anxiety

Beckka · Newbie Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 9 Location: UK

Hi
For around 6 months now i have been getting chest pain going into my left arm. My doc said it was muscular after i had had ecg's echocardiogram blood tests (blood count troponin d dimers) and chest x ray and seen a cardiologist. I then started to develop anxiety because i thought i had a heart problem and therefore have had many trips to the A+E convinced im dying which has resulted in me having at least 10ECGs since last october 3 chest x rays and 4 lots of blood tests seen my own GP hundreds of times, seen a cardiologist, about 5 A+E doctors and many out of hours doctors on the weekend. only to be told that everything is fine and nothing medically wrong with me. In the past month or so i have started getting pain going up into the left side of my jaw and sometimes into my cheek and down my left arm and makes my hand tingle, my doc and counsellor re assure me its all anxiety related, but i can get it when i dont feel anxious or i can wake up in the night in agony. Do i believe my doc that anxiety is causing all these symptoms or does it sound like there could be something else more sinister going on underneath that they have missed out on? I can also get an odd sort of tingly type feeling down the middle of my chest which usually comes on in bed and can often make me feel dizzy. I don't deny i suffer from anxiety but i also think something else may be causing some of these symptoms...? Thanks for reading and if anyone can give me any feedback from their experiences i would be grateful.
I am a 21yr old female non smoker (quit last year after smoking 4-5 years) slightly overweight

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Hi Beckka,
I completely sympathaise with the way you are feeling, I have been feeling terrible in the last couple of months and the last week I have gone mad, feeling awful, panic attack, severe numbness in face (left side more), pins and needles in left arm and leg, sweating, shaking etc. Been to doctor loads of times, hospital A&E had ECG which was normal, feel like something seriously wrong with me, loads of doctors have assured me it is anxiety but I feel like I am going mad. It sounds to me as if you have anxiety as your tests are all clear and believe me it can play havoc even though you may not be stressed about something at a particular time, nighttime I have not slept some nights because the symptoms keep me awake. Hope it subsides. Best wishes

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I have had the same thing going on for about a year...pain in left arm (and if the heart was on the right side of the body i bet the pain would be in my right arm) because its all anxiety...ive got myself so worked up i wore a holter moniter had ekgs bloodwork...all normal...but i stilll think something is wrong with me my heart will start pounding out of nowhere its all in your head!

kubull · Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

I swear when read your post Beckka, it was as if I wrote is myself! Exactly the same symptoms! Really doubt myself all the time, I enjoy going to the gym but I find my mind takes control and persuades me that I can't, by Manifesting symptoms of heart problems.

I can only imagine that you, me and few others here, read up all we could and spoke to all these people, but we always know how to persuade ourselves (comes naturally)

Personally I feel that all this stress can be a problem, the worst thing i read was that, prolonged amount of stress brings on artery tightening and furring! which can restrict blood flow, but you'd think the Docs would tell us that!

Well thats whats keeping me up at night, I hope someone has found something to contradict that.

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