hi my age is 22 male non smoker not overweight and i only drink at family gatherings my grandma died because of a heart attack shes 71 shes a smoker and a heavy drinker my fear of having a heart problem started 3 months ago nov 6 2017 to be exact it all started because of a panic attack a few days earlier before my first panic attack iam so stressed about my puppies because they have parvo and all of them died i couldn't sleep for 3 days i think i developed an insomnia because of my stress i tried so hard to fall a sleep but i just cant i feel that my heart is pounding everytime i lay down in bed i also feel that theres a lump on my throat it makes me hard to breath but i just ignored it and i finally fallen a sleep after waking up i still feel that my heart is pounding and i still feel the difficulty of breathing it concerned me so i went googling what i feel and oh boy! i dint like what i just found out i found out out that not having a proper sleep is a risk to heart attack it scared me a lot i went into panic mode i started to feel suffocated and i also feel pain in my left arm my mom rushed me to ER when we finally got to ER the nurse on the front desk asked me whats the problem i told her that i was having a heart attack she immediately checked my pulse and listened to my chest and she also checked my BP after checking my BP and it just 120/80 she smiles at me and said "sir you are not having a heart attack your'e on panic" after that they do an ECG and blood test and it came back normal the doctor on ER asked me if i'm doing drugs i said no i but i haven't slept for 3 days i told her that i was stressed because of my puppies and she prescribed me a sleeping aid after that everything was fine until a week later when i was washing the dishes i feel that my chest is getting tight it has a burning sensation i also feel the left arm pain i went into panic mode again they bring me back to the ER the doctor suspected that i have GERD so he consult me to a gastro specialist a day before that we went to a gastro doctor and she prescribed me with meds she also said that too much stress can also trigger the GERD she thinks that my stress over my puppy triggered it she asked me to comeback after a week if the meds doesn't work so she could perform an endoscopy to findout if im actually having a GERD surprisingly the meds worked like magic i feel relieved that it was just a GERD it made me not to worry about heart problems anymore until the day that i feel a shoulder pain i started to google my symptoms again spent countless hours and oh boy i found out that feeling indigestion and shoulder pain is one of the symptoms of angina it freaked me out i went into panic mode again and begged my mom to bring me to a doctor because my research said in order to rule out angina is to go thru some test like ecg, bloodtest, stress test ,echo scans, nuclear scan, and angiogram that freaked the hell out of me because i remembered that i only have ecg and blood test. it scared me throughout the day i keep on begging my mom until i finally convinced her she said that were going to her GP tomorrow her GP is a internist and specializes in hypertension and the day finally came we went to the doctors office i honestly doesn't feel the symptoms that moment my symptoms finally gone like magic the moment we got into the doctors office because i feel safe if something bad happens to me i'm in the hospital the nurse on the GP office started to get my info and checked my BP and the time finally come its my turn to talk to the doctor i explained exactly what i feel he started to listen to my heart i feel so relieved because i think that i'm finally going thru some test but im surprised because the doctor get back to his seat and started talking he asked who i want to be what i really want to do i responded and said "doc im a graphic artist" he said then just focus on art don't waste your time on researching about medical things because im not a doctor im an artist and he started to tell me inspiring stories about graphic artist he knew. i started to feel like the doctor suddenly became a life mentor until i finally figured it out he do that because he wants me to forget about the the horrible disease that i googled i think he suspect that i have hypochondria that's why he wants me to focus on other things and not to spend my time on googling symptoms but my mind is still on the worry about angina so i interrupted hes speech and i asked him "doc when we are going to have the test" and he responded he said that those test arent necessary because he listened to my heart and he dint find anything wrong he explained that i only need to go through some test if he pick up something wrong by listening into my heart he would do an ecg and if the results are not normal he would do further more test he assured me that he is doing this for about 20 yrs he has countless patient complaining about their heart he knew exactly if the patient has a real heart problem and the one who doesn't he said that at my age of 22 my chances of having a heart attack or angina without a history of heart problems since i was a child is little to nothing he said its possible but is super rare he said at his 20yrs of being a doctor he doesn't seen one so he assured me that i'm not going to die because of my heart he diagnosed me with GAD(generalized anxiety disorder) and he prescribed me with anti depressants he said skip it if i can control my panic he also prescribed a stronger proton pump inhibitor for my GERD he talked to my mom before we leave the office he said to my mom just understand and have more patience on me because of my anxiety after that i feel relieved when we are heading home we stopped into a bike shop and im surprised she bought me a bicycle she said she wants me to have fun and forget about problems she wants me to join my friends into biking because that what all my friends do i started biking and join my friends every sunday we ride i also ride every other day because im still scared about heart disease and the only way to prevent it is to be healthy i feel fatigued and breathless at first but i didn't mind it because im not used into riding before it was just normal days have come i finally get used to riding im not easily fatigued and out of breath my distance of riding is getting longer too i can say that i don't have the anxiety anymore and my pains doesn't scared me anymore chest pain only comes when i eat to much or i ate bad for gerd i can say that my december was fine until the day(jan 13 2018) my friends and i decided to ride 80KM and the road to our destination has too many uphills i can say that it was my first hardest ride ever i think that i pushed my self too hard but i feel glad because i don't feel any chest pains after pushing my self too hard we came back home everything is fine after that i feel good all day until night time i started to feel really bad chest pain its in the middle of my chest i also feel pain in my jaw which i try to ignore at first but i bothered me alot and scared me again i called my friend my bike buddy i asked him if he had chest pain before because of biking he said yes when he was a newbie he said he went to a doctor and was diagnosed with costochondritis but im still so ****ing scared because i have jaw pains i have bad tooth though because im afraid of dentist but the last time i had jaw pain because of bad teeth is way back 2014 but im still scared because why it would hurt now i haven't have jaw pains since2014 i also become exhausted so easily i dont know if it was just in my mind i get random chestpain i couldn't convince my mom anymore because shes so mad at me everytime itell her that i feel pains again we spent too much money on my trips to ER and doctor visits recently i dont have my own money so i cant go to a doctor im dont know what to do i think im back to my old self again i spent too much time on google again thats why im herei want to know if om not the only one feeling this
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