dan84sim
07-04-11, 13:07
About a year ago now I went to bed feeling fine but as i drifted off i suddenly came crashing awake with a a pain in my chest and a really really fast heart beat, I thought I was having a heart attack.
For about 4 months after that it got really bad, pains everyday, shortnesses of breathe everyday, headaches, you name it I had it. I kept going to Doctors and hospitals yet I was always told the same, I am fine....
I've had ECG's, 24 Hour heart monitoring, Blood Tests, Brain MRI, Chest X-Rays and everything is clear.
I learnt to cope with the sudden pains, with the shortnesses of breathe and the fear of the Doctors being wrong.
Recently though they have started happening more and more frequently again, I get shortnesses of breathe when i sit down, when i walk around, they don't seem to happen when I am stressed or feeling anxious, they can happen at anytime, that is what scares me that something serious may be wrong.
No one has been able to tell me why it is happening or how to stop it so it leaves me to think and worry about it.
I say I am not an anxious person, I have always had a morbid fear of death though, I used to stay awake at night scared that one day I will die, or when I was a kid I would go into every other bedroom but my own as I was scared of being on my own and to check everyone in my household was still breathing. Death scared me from the age of about 6. I have lost a couple of close friends and my Dad and I can't seem to shake the fear off.
Other than that I have a happy home life, a great work life and a good social life, this anxiety (if that is what it is) ruined my last job, I am determined it won't ruin this one but i feel that it has started to.
Is this anxiety? Can chest pains happen out of nowhere and for no reason, do shortnesses of breathe start for nothing even when I am relaxed? Am i causing my body to do this, why is my heart beating really fast all the time?
They are questions no one has been able to answer yet and the fear of doctors not being able to diagnose or advise me on them just makes it all so much worse!
Dan
For about 4 months after that it got really bad, pains everyday, shortnesses of breathe everyday, headaches, you name it I had it. I kept going to Doctors and hospitals yet I was always told the same, I am fine....
I've had ECG's, 24 Hour heart monitoring, Blood Tests, Brain MRI, Chest X-Rays and everything is clear.
I learnt to cope with the sudden pains, with the shortnesses of breathe and the fear of the Doctors being wrong.
Recently though they have started happening more and more frequently again, I get shortnesses of breathe when i sit down, when i walk around, they don't seem to happen when I am stressed or feeling anxious, they can happen at anytime, that is what scares me that something serious may be wrong.
No one has been able to tell me why it is happening or how to stop it so it leaves me to think and worry about it.
I say I am not an anxious person, I have always had a morbid fear of death though, I used to stay awake at night scared that one day I will die, or when I was a kid I would go into every other bedroom but my own as I was scared of being on my own and to check everyone in my household was still breathing. Death scared me from the age of about 6. I have lost a couple of close friends and my Dad and I can't seem to shake the fear off.
Other than that I have a happy home life, a great work life and a good social life, this anxiety (if that is what it is) ruined my last job, I am determined it won't ruin this one but i feel that it has started to.
Is this anxiety? Can chest pains happen out of nowhere and for no reason, do shortnesses of breathe start for nothing even when I am relaxed? Am i causing my body to do this, why is my heart beating really fast all the time?
They are questions no one has been able to answer yet and the fear of doctors not being able to diagnose or advise me on them just makes it all so much worse!
Dan