ben_jamzin
24-05-11, 18:24
I have recently joined this forum as it seems to be a place where one can be entirely out in the open about their worries - and rightly so, if you are like me you are re-assured by the idea that somebody else somewhere understands.
I am a 20 year old university student, I have had severe anxieties about my health since I gave up cannabis around a year or so ago, from brain tumours, to cancer, internal bleeding, etc... and now...Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
This one appears to be the worst fear to develop, partly because symptoms don't appear to be obvious and partly because the condition itself doesn't give one a time limit in which to work. Having consulted (and frankly been very honest) with my doctor, I was given an ECG, and the reassurance that this condition is very rare, and statistically, you are more likely to pass away in a car accident.
Since the ECG, I have had rather worrying chest pains in my left side, just below my nipple, the pains are unlike any others I have experienced (such as the "tightness of the chest" experienced during panic/anxiety spells or attacks). The pain has been manageable and I even took it upon myself to visit my GP again yesterday and express my concerns, given a conclusion of "muscular pain", I felt reassured, however today the pain was very painful, moreso than before, there was a distinct feeling that it was my heart, and it lasted perhaps 1 - 3 seconds, sending me into overdrive (a panic attack) straight away, I am calm now but sick of this, has anybody else felt a similar type of pain? I am talking painful here.
Thanks!
I am a 20 year old university student, I have had severe anxieties about my health since I gave up cannabis around a year or so ago, from brain tumours, to cancer, internal bleeding, etc... and now...Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
This one appears to be the worst fear to develop, partly because symptoms don't appear to be obvious and partly because the condition itself doesn't give one a time limit in which to work. Having consulted (and frankly been very honest) with my doctor, I was given an ECG, and the reassurance that this condition is very rare, and statistically, you are more likely to pass away in a car accident.
Since the ECG, I have had rather worrying chest pains in my left side, just below my nipple, the pains are unlike any others I have experienced (such as the "tightness of the chest" experienced during panic/anxiety spells or attacks). The pain has been manageable and I even took it upon myself to visit my GP again yesterday and express my concerns, given a conclusion of "muscular pain", I felt reassured, however today the pain was very painful, moreso than before, there was a distinct feeling that it was my heart, and it lasted perhaps 1 - 3 seconds, sending me into overdrive (a panic attack) straight away, I am calm now but sick of this, has anybody else felt a similar type of pain? I am talking painful here.
Thanks!