S.B
30-07-17, 11:59
Hey all,
I've generally been feeling a bit better recently since I last posted, but thought I'd drop an update with recent developments.
To recap, following my mothers death in December 2016, I have been suffering with (sometimes) severe cardiac anxiety, generally related to worries about angina and heart disease.
It was massively interfering with day-to-day life and I've had countless medical tests al of which have concluded that there is no cardiac source of symptoms. My most recent tests were in March/April time and overall, I've probably had about 6 ECGs, 2 ECHOs, 2 CXRs, 3x Blood Work, Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, the list goes on.
Anyway recently, I've been noticing chest feelings (I wouldn't call it pain and it's not really discomfort, more just a feeling of tightness I guess, but its certainly not severe when I'm walking round town sometimes. It seems to come and go and ***probably*** relates to me worrying about it.
I do a lot of running recently, and averaging about 25km a week and do a 10km every couple of weeks with a time of ~53mins so that's pretty quick and have never had to stop due to chest pain. I do sometimes get discomfort when I'm running but it generally comes and goes and does not get worse throughout the run which I would expect. I've never had to stop and often the discomfort goes throughout the run.
The "clear-thinking" me would probably put some of this down to general high exertion, but it's the "cloudy-thinking" me thats around at the moment. Other times when I go for a run, for example, yesterday I ran 6km on 32min and didn't feel any discomfort at all.
It's an absolute swine not being able to just relax and constantly think about this shit. I hate going up stairs because I almost always get out of breath at the top of several flights, which I know is normal but again, anxious me is beating the crap out me. I think I generally build up stairs more than I need to and back in the day I wouldn't have thought twice about walking up loads of stairs. In fact I have also build some stair training into my exercise regime, where I run up 4 flights of stairs and then walk down and repeat. Again, with this I don't experience chest pains or things like that.
I feel a bit better writing it down here, think I just needed a brain dump.
Hope you're all doing as well as you can. Love to all.
Keep on keeping on
S.B
I've generally been feeling a bit better recently since I last posted, but thought I'd drop an update with recent developments.
To recap, following my mothers death in December 2016, I have been suffering with (sometimes) severe cardiac anxiety, generally related to worries about angina and heart disease.
It was massively interfering with day-to-day life and I've had countless medical tests al of which have concluded that there is no cardiac source of symptoms. My most recent tests were in March/April time and overall, I've probably had about 6 ECGs, 2 ECHOs, 2 CXRs, 3x Blood Work, Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, the list goes on.
Anyway recently, I've been noticing chest feelings (I wouldn't call it pain and it's not really discomfort, more just a feeling of tightness I guess, but its certainly not severe when I'm walking round town sometimes. It seems to come and go and ***probably*** relates to me worrying about it.
I do a lot of running recently, and averaging about 25km a week and do a 10km every couple of weeks with a time of ~53mins so that's pretty quick and have never had to stop due to chest pain. I do sometimes get discomfort when I'm running but it generally comes and goes and does not get worse throughout the run which I would expect. I've never had to stop and often the discomfort goes throughout the run.
The "clear-thinking" me would probably put some of this down to general high exertion, but it's the "cloudy-thinking" me thats around at the moment. Other times when I go for a run, for example, yesterday I ran 6km on 32min and didn't feel any discomfort at all.
It's an absolute swine not being able to just relax and constantly think about this shit. I hate going up stairs because I almost always get out of breath at the top of several flights, which I know is normal but again, anxious me is beating the crap out me. I think I generally build up stairs more than I need to and back in the day I wouldn't have thought twice about walking up loads of stairs. In fact I have also build some stair training into my exercise regime, where I run up 4 flights of stairs and then walk down and repeat. Again, with this I don't experience chest pains or things like that.
I feel a bit better writing it down here, think I just needed a brain dump.
Hope you're all doing as well as you can. Love to all.
Keep on keeping on
S.B