Anxiety Jim
18-07-13, 01:43
Hi,
I thought I was past my heart worries after my GP told me that my cardiac risk was low after I had a 24 hour ECG. That was only a few weeks ago, but tonight I'm in a right panic.
For the past 1 or 2 hours I've been getting sharp shooting pains down my left arm. Sometimes the pain starts from between my inner elbow and palm, other times it starts at the elbow or sometimes from my bicep towards my shoulder.
It's a very sharp pain that shoots to the tips of my fingers (feels like it goes to under my nails)
Every time I try to lay down in bed I last less than a minute before getting chest pain and worse arm pain. At which point I sit bolt upright in bed panting.
I keep trying to tell myself if I was having a heart attack I wouldn't be able to write this on no more panic, and that it wouldn't have lasted for a few hours. But still I can't ignore it, so end up in a panic.
Does anyone think that this is something to be concerned about, would you lovely people be worried like I am?
If the pain was somewhere else like my leg or something, I'm sure I could ignore it and get some sleep, alas it's not.
Thanks.
I thought I was past my heart worries after my GP told me that my cardiac risk was low after I had a 24 hour ECG. That was only a few weeks ago, but tonight I'm in a right panic.
For the past 1 or 2 hours I've been getting sharp shooting pains down my left arm. Sometimes the pain starts from between my inner elbow and palm, other times it starts at the elbow or sometimes from my bicep towards my shoulder.
It's a very sharp pain that shoots to the tips of my fingers (feels like it goes to under my nails)
Every time I try to lay down in bed I last less than a minute before getting chest pain and worse arm pain. At which point I sit bolt upright in bed panting.
I keep trying to tell myself if I was having a heart attack I wouldn't be able to write this on no more panic, and that it wouldn't have lasted for a few hours. But still I can't ignore it, so end up in a panic.
Does anyone think that this is something to be concerned about, would you lovely people be worried like I am?
If the pain was somewhere else like my leg or something, I'm sure I could ignore it and get some sleep, alas it's not.
Thanks.