stressed_out
05-03-16, 10:40
hey sorry to make another post here but i need help
last night i had a small weird chest pain around heart, i had a feeling that it was a sign of something horrible about to happen, just a smaller version of it. i tried to brush it off as an ocd though as i've learned in mindfulness therapy and tried my best to ignore it and go to sleep. i woke up this morning with same pain but a larger area of my heart area. again i tried to rationalize its anxiety and went on with my day. i had center of chest pressure pain like crushing in center and worried about it and took my anxiety medicine (500mg of GABA, trying to get off of xanax) and it didn't get rid of the pain. the pain eventually went away though.
about two hours ago i had an even bigger worse feeling similar to the one i had last night before bed.i could literally feel what felt like a huge vein one inch wide convulse along with that feeling mixed with garbled heart vein feeling, its extremely hard to describe. it felt like everything also whited out for a split second or at least most of my vision along with my body shutting down for those seconds. i took my second GABA for the day about an hour before this and i didn't notice the usual effects of lessened anxiety.
i had horrible center of chest pains that were getting worse by the second, felt like pressure inside the sternum (i'm not sure if pressure is even the right way to say it. hard to describe and awful). this sent me into borderline panic, i had the depersonalization for a few seconds. i kept feeling like i couldn't breathe suddenly, like i was seconds away from throwing up, got shakes (still am), felt cold all over my body and had a horrible pain on the inside armpit / bicep area of my right arm. the pain was getting worse and i was developing other symptoms of chest pain at the same time, left arm felt weird and weak like i couldn't lift it up, it got extremely tight. stabbing through back. pain in left ribs - inside. pain going from squeezing (again, hard to describe) somewhere inside where i can't pinpoint just somewhere in the center and to the left.
during the time it took to write this i was calming down still feeling high anxiety but now i have a horrible sudden pain coming on and off in the left side of my sternum and i'm feeling like i'm going to pass out and dizzy. like a stab almost. now it feels like it's spreading to the left ribcage. right now i just felt like my entire upper body was going to have the sternum pain and i was about to collapse.
can someone please help me
i got diagnosed with anxiety when i thought i was having a heart attack 2 months ago but never followed up to get an echo (the doctor said she thought it would be normal but don't do any exercise or anything until i got it double checked)
i also developed the squeezing after my 2nd round of tests (january 21) and am worried about it. i'm only 23
---------- Post added at 04:40 ---------- Previous post was at 04:38 ----------
i have been taking therapy to deal with my anxiety but i live with my parents right now and my therapists think my problems are from them. they stressed me out a lot today and are ruining the progress i make from therapy so i'm hoping that all these symptoms are from the stress but again i'm worried because they feel very severe and on paper sound horrible combined with never get an echo... more tests etc. and the feeling i had last night before bed
i also feel generally sick and unwell and different from all the other times i've had anxiety attacks or borderline panic episodes.
last night i had a small weird chest pain around heart, i had a feeling that it was a sign of something horrible about to happen, just a smaller version of it. i tried to brush it off as an ocd though as i've learned in mindfulness therapy and tried my best to ignore it and go to sleep. i woke up this morning with same pain but a larger area of my heart area. again i tried to rationalize its anxiety and went on with my day. i had center of chest pressure pain like crushing in center and worried about it and took my anxiety medicine (500mg of GABA, trying to get off of xanax) and it didn't get rid of the pain. the pain eventually went away though.
about two hours ago i had an even bigger worse feeling similar to the one i had last night before bed.i could literally feel what felt like a huge vein one inch wide convulse along with that feeling mixed with garbled heart vein feeling, its extremely hard to describe. it felt like everything also whited out for a split second or at least most of my vision along with my body shutting down for those seconds. i took my second GABA for the day about an hour before this and i didn't notice the usual effects of lessened anxiety.
i had horrible center of chest pains that were getting worse by the second, felt like pressure inside the sternum (i'm not sure if pressure is even the right way to say it. hard to describe and awful). this sent me into borderline panic, i had the depersonalization for a few seconds. i kept feeling like i couldn't breathe suddenly, like i was seconds away from throwing up, got shakes (still am), felt cold all over my body and had a horrible pain on the inside armpit / bicep area of my right arm. the pain was getting worse and i was developing other symptoms of chest pain at the same time, left arm felt weird and weak like i couldn't lift it up, it got extremely tight. stabbing through back. pain in left ribs - inside. pain going from squeezing (again, hard to describe) somewhere inside where i can't pinpoint just somewhere in the center and to the left.
during the time it took to write this i was calming down still feeling high anxiety but now i have a horrible sudden pain coming on and off in the left side of my sternum and i'm feeling like i'm going to pass out and dizzy. like a stab almost. now it feels like it's spreading to the left ribcage. right now i just felt like my entire upper body was going to have the sternum pain and i was about to collapse.
can someone please help me
i got diagnosed with anxiety when i thought i was having a heart attack 2 months ago but never followed up to get an echo (the doctor said she thought it would be normal but don't do any exercise or anything until i got it double checked)
i also developed the squeezing after my 2nd round of tests (january 21) and am worried about it. i'm only 23
---------- Post added at 04:40 ---------- Previous post was at 04:38 ----------
i have been taking therapy to deal with my anxiety but i live with my parents right now and my therapists think my problems are from them. they stressed me out a lot today and are ruining the progress i make from therapy so i'm hoping that all these symptoms are from the stress but again i'm worried because they feel very severe and on paper sound horrible combined with never get an echo... more tests etc. and the feeling i had last night before bed
i also feel generally sick and unwell and different from all the other times i've had anxiety attacks or borderline panic episodes.