ha2011
27-11-10, 21:09
I am 19 years old and I have been suffering from health anxiety for just over a year now. My anxieties have been completely about my heart, and I have had an ECG, Echocardiogram and 24 ECG the results of which are normal according to my doctor.
My main concerns were a bounding and visible pulse all over my body (neck, wrists, stomac etc), a 'new' heart murmur and frequent skipped beats.
I have been having CBT recently and I feel that I nearly made a complete recovery. However I recently stumbled upon this wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprasternal_notch
which states the following:
"In a young normal person there should be no palpable pulse. A prominent pulse may be indicative of an uncoiled aorta, arch aneurysm, or a tortuous blood vessel"
Indeed I have an extremely palpable pulse in that part of my neck ( well all over my neck), I can feel it prominently with my little finger and see it in the mirror. Finding this information has now caused me to have a relapse!
Logically I shouldn't worry about this:
-I am very fit (Can run 10km in 55 minutes)
-During my echo, the sonographer put the prove in my 'suprasternal notch' i presume to check for aneurysm's
-Doctor has dismissed my worries about my neck pulse before (albeit without examination.
However I now worry that this symptom shows that is actually something wrong with me and the doctors were too quick to dismiss it.
Can anyone else report such a prominent pulse in this part of the neck or is it just me?
Cheers.
My main concerns were a bounding and visible pulse all over my body (neck, wrists, stomac etc), a 'new' heart murmur and frequent skipped beats.
I have been having CBT recently and I feel that I nearly made a complete recovery. However I recently stumbled upon this wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprasternal_notch
which states the following:
"In a young normal person there should be no palpable pulse. A prominent pulse may be indicative of an uncoiled aorta, arch aneurysm, or a tortuous blood vessel"
Indeed I have an extremely palpable pulse in that part of my neck ( well all over my neck), I can feel it prominently with my little finger and see it in the mirror. Finding this information has now caused me to have a relapse!
Logically I shouldn't worry about this:
-I am very fit (Can run 10km in 55 minutes)
-During my echo, the sonographer put the prove in my 'suprasternal notch' i presume to check for aneurysm's
-Doctor has dismissed my worries about my neck pulse before (albeit without examination.
However I now worry that this symptom shows that is actually something wrong with me and the doctors were too quick to dismiss it.
Can anyone else report such a prominent pulse in this part of the neck or is it just me?
Cheers.