Chest Pain With Anxiety?

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Posted: 02/25/08 - 04:08 Post subject: Chest pain related to anxiety
As a counselor and someone who has experienced panic epsiodes......a good non medical intervention.....read out loud while walking in a regular pattern ...in your house/outside....for twenty minutes. This occupies several parts of your brain, deals with the adrenaline being dumped into your system and regulates your breathing.

It's simple...but effective.
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TORI I have the exact same thing as you do! I have severe OCD and chest pains, panic CONSTANTLY, and i can't sleep at all. Last night I woke up 15 min. after I went to sleep in the middle of a panic attack. I'm just now finding out that this is OCD related. I went to the hospital before and my heart is fine, but I still freak out so bad sometimes. Life is HELL and I know exactly how you feel. I always know I have a blood clot, cancer, meningitis, etc. Wow, I've been searching forever because I thought I was crazy, most other people with OCD don't have this problem. I'm also terrified of medication, even tylenol. Don't know why I'm even writing all this, just... idk, thanx for being like me, I'm closer to thijnking I'm not insane or dying :-)

I had severe panic attack disorder that pretty much robbed my life for about 2 months. I would have attacks anytime from 6 to 8 trimes a day, I literally couldnt think about living. My chest never stopped being sore the month and a half or so I had panic attack disorder. Anyone can beat panic disorder, and I know at times you cannot control them, or stop thinking about them. But you have to realize, you are more than your panic attack and anxiety and you CAN control your mind. If you feel one coming on take a zanax, or whatever emergency panic attack pill your doctor prescribed and go to sleep(its how I coped with them, you may be different) Your body will reboot much like a computer and give you a chance to start over again when you wake back up with a free mind. And NO, you dont have to be afraid of falling asleep, your not going to die, you will wake back up. Ive had panic attacks triggered from everything underneath the sun on this earth, Slight chest pain, heart palipatations, feelings that my legs weighed to much and I was going to have a heart attack, waking up thinking I was dead, putting my two hands together and thinking my brain had my left and right confused has triggered one for me on several accounts (now thats bad). Thinking I had a brain tumor actually triggered my first full blow panic attack that I ever had and sent me to the ER. At some point you have to look at yourself in the mirror and say "there is not a thing wrong with you other than your mind going 90 mph, slow down and chill out" I know that after I accepted what was going on and stopped fighting the panic attacks and anxiety, and started thinking positive I beat them. And dont get me wrong, I still have anxiety(I work hard at work, after all i have OCD ) :-D But its easy to manage, with medication and positive influence, I started out on 40 milligrams everyday, and now im down to about 15 milligrams every other day, and maybe one day i'll be off of it all together. Not a soul on this forum cant beat them, They are a figment of your imagination, and that's that!

hi tori, madme here (well dont feel so mad lately).Im a new member and your the first person who has mentioned fluoxetine. I was prescribed it about a year and half ago and it was the best thing ever i felt so NORMAL, obviously it took at least a week to work. But it was amazin feelin comftable again just goin shoppin in town and nobody staring at me makin me feel there was somethin badly wrong. Me 2 felt every pain i had weather it b chest i was havin a heart attack, bad headache was a tumour, pains and aches in most joints there had 2 b something major wrong with me and all this was so real. I am still takin fluoxetine but my lastest problem is i've started binge drinkin frequently because it makes me feel normal ish with a little upper buzz. So i've started gettin quite bad anxiety attacks again cus obviously the alcohol cancels the tablets from workin properly. Anyway i hope this has answered your worries :) and please do give them ago as the only side affect i had was dry mouth feelin thursty sometimes. Surely that can't b bad. PLEASE TRY THEM. :) :) :D

I am glad that I am not alone. I am very new to this condition. I just started taking lexipro and ativan. Since I started taking them it seems that my chest and back pains and fears have increased. Is this normal? I can't sleep, eat, or drink. I feel nausous and I excited. I just can't get my mind of of the what if???? I am glad that I can talk with others that feel the same way. TORI, I feel just like you do

Ok, I have to agree with everyone else on here. I have tolerated this condition for way to many years. I had my first panic attack when I was 9 years old. Heavens Sake I was in third grade. My mother rushed me to the ER in fear of my heart. They ran tests on me, never found anything. Later on when I was 14 I had another attack, Rushed me to the Er once again nothing, Years later, Running track again it happened, They found nothing, So They put me on a heart monitor, when I started feeling my heart act up to record it, Still never found anything. When I was pregnant at 19, I had to see a cardiologists reg. They never ever found anything wrong, and they never told me it was anxiety related. I don't know if its because they assumed I was too young to have anxiety but I guess I was destined to have these issues. Anyways I am 29 yrs old and I have been on Paxil for several years. Aftet being rushed to the ER so many times. SO sure I was dying, My sister, Husband, Mother all up at different hours of the night or day helping me get though these attacks. I have SWORE my self and told doctors I knew something was wrong with me and I knew I was dying. I just have a hard time understanding one moment I am watching a show on tv then before I know it, My chest tightens, I feel every beat my heart makes as its pounding in my chest, I get butterflies shooting in my stomach/Chest, Sweating clammy, Almost like Im SO tired but my body wires up and feels weighed down, My chest feels like it weighs a TON!! I HATE IT!! I always said I would never wish these among my worst enemy. I pray my son never has to deal with them. For now, I have just started taking Lexapro, it does not seem to help me like the Paxil did, Except Paxil is TERRIBLE to come off of. I accomplished that last year, But ended up with the Panic again and here I am back onb anxiety medicine. I just wish I could be like my friends, I do such a great job at hiding my anxiety, most of them have no clue what Im really going through. It makes me feel so alone b/c I know if I try explaining or talking to them, They will think I am crazy, My mom and sister know how it feels but I hate to bother them. My son, I pray NEVER has to deal with it. It puts such a damper on things for me. I want to be able to do other things others do and not feel so threathened I may have another attack :-(

Thank You all for posting, I don't feel alone. I was completely healthy until around my 37th birthday, it has been 11 months. I have been to the ER so many times, I lost count. It started with my ears ringing, dizziness, chest pain, heart palpitations and loss of breath. I could not help to thing that I was going to die. My heart starts beating rapidly, blood pressure shoots up and I have the most horrible feeling of doom in my stomach and chest. I have had all the work ups, MRI w/contrast, stress echo cardiogram and every blood test available. All completely normal. I really need to talk to someone who understands, does anyone have any recommendations? Today is a really bad day for me.

Im sorry you are experiencing such bad anxiety. You sound very similar to myself. I had to ponder on the reasons I feel the way I do, After numerous trips to the hospital and doctor visits. Its so strange to start feeling that way, When you know your not doing anything at the time when the attack happens, it just comes out of no where. BELIEVE ME I KNOW!!! But have you ever noticed if you have something that totally occupies you, it does not happen. Only when you think about it, ir it crosses your mind, then you start feeling that way. Its a chemical imbalance and you have to take medicine to control it. I hate having to take the medicine but its worth it, instead of feeling like your loosing your mind. I have literally had to take it with baby steps. It kind of went in patterns for me. It would bother me at work after lunch when I ate, Which was terrible becuase I was so afraid I was going to loose my mind in front of my office crew. I would have to make several trips to the bathroom and put wet rags on my head and chest until the panic would subside. It then graduated to my nights, After its dark and I try to lay down and go to sleep. I would fight them back so bad, Eventually getting up turning on my light, Putting a fan on my with a cold rag, Talking myself through them, Just knowing EVERYTIME Im going to end up at the hospital AGAIN. But I don't I fight them. If you have someone to call when you start feeling that way, it really helps, Someone who will listen to you. and not make you feel crazy. Also get a cold wet cloth and a fan and put it on you. Maybe pace back n forth with the rag and talk your self through it. Your OK, and you will survive. This are the things I have to do to make it go away. Also I have started taking Benadryl about 1 hour before bedtime, liquid Benadryl, it really helps relax you and will help you sleep. Some of the anxiety medicine doctors prescribe has the same kind of ingredient in it as this does. One of my doctors told me this. Please email me back if you need to talk I know how you feel. Please know other people suffer this with you and you are not alone in this horrible battle!!!

WOW, it's amazing to know that I'm not alone out there and that other people are experiencing the same things as me. I find it so strange that it happens so often when resting, like watching TV or at the gym or even cleaning my house. I have spoken to my Dr. and she will be sending to see someone. I think that's the best non-medical help you can ask for. I would be willing to go on meds too, but they said to see if talking to a professional helped first. I do have a lot on my plate these days, but I've always thought of myself as someone who could deal well with stress. Not sure if it's just catching up to me or what. In any case, they are frightening and scary. last night I though I should go to ER. Sort of a catch 22 eh? You are streesed, so you have these pains which makes you MORE stressed.

I totally understand - I was on Fluoxatine for a while - the worst side effect I had was excessive sweating - I've come off that now and I just take Diazepam when I have an attack - not sure this treatment is working for me tho! Don't be scared, and don't be frightened to be pushy with your doctor

I kno exactly what you mean i lost my dad 2 months ago and i was the one who found him and called 911 and everything. not 2 months later i have developed bad anxiety and the last 3 days i feel pain in my chest like my heart is gonna give out or somthing. also a weird feeling wer i kinda get a serge throo my body right after my heart skips a beat.



I also did not take my anxiety pills because i was scared of the side effects

I am so with you guys. I get a headache and think I have a blood clot, I get chest pains (from the anxiety) and swear I am having a heart attack. I have made my partner take me to the hospital on 2 occassions because I thought I was having a heart attack and on more than one other occassion I have been very close to making him take me. Part of me knows I am being silly but part of me swears I'm not.

I was on Fluoxitine but when my father passed away suddenly I went 2 weeks without taking it (by accident, I forgot to take my pills because there was so much going on around me) so I have tried to stay off it since - I have now been off the Fluoxitine for 11 months but feel my anxiety is getting increasingly worse and have made an appointment to go see my doctor next week and discuss going back on it with her.

I have panic attacks when sitting at traffic lights if I'm in my car alone, or sometimes when approaching bridges in the car. I hate flying and take valium when I fly. Being in queues can bring on panic attacks.

And lately I have developed a pain in my back which I am guessing is linked to the anxiety.

I just want to be normal. To not worry about going to sleep at night and not waking up. To not worry all the time about blood clots and cancer. I'm only 31 and don't want to spend the rest of my life like this.

I recently started having panic attacks. The first two were drug induced. The third was unprovoked upon wakening. Like many of you have experienced, I too had mild/achey chest pain that develops into sharp chest pain. Sometimes these pains ignite a panic attack and other times it simply subsides. I have a constant fear of death and the fear of having another panic attack. Panic attacks are one of the worst feelings in the world. I know I am having a panic at yet I am always self assured that I am moments from death.

Now I would like to tell you what helps me. First off, go get some Lorazepam from your doctor. I've had panic attacks that I could not stop. These babies will knock you on your ass. They are addicting so take the conservatively. I've tried bf reathing techniques but I am bad at them and learning them during a panic attack isn't easy. I would reccommend practicing then in a normal state of mind. Lastly, reading these forums helps me a lot when I'm experiencing panic attack symptoms. It helps to see other people write about identical symptoms that resulted well.

I have been experiencing chest pains and hard times breathing in the last few weeks. i went to my family doctor and he checked me out and agreed that i have high anxiety, im getting my blood checked to see if i have a heart problem that can develope in athleats, but i'm having a hard time thinking that i have something wrong with me and that i could die at any moment. if anybody has had this happen in the past and could just explain what they felt like after hearing this and how they reassured themselfs that there okay and nothing is wrong.

i have recently experienced my first panic attack. ive been getting these sharp chest pains for just over 3 years now and my doc never said anything!he did the ecg, blood tests and xrays but thats as far is it went. no heart problems like it makes you think. ive been depressed since my early teens due to ALOT of emotional family baggage, and to this day ive never had any help its always been hard work to get anywhere. i do have a great husband and two little boys But sometimes i feel soo overwhelmed i cant stop myself from screaming and that makes me sick to my stomach. i just cant beleive my doctor has done nothing when i keep complaing to him about these chest pains...