Hi,
Several months ago I was diagnosed with Hiatal Hernia, GERD and Gastritis, but before doing gastroscopy I've done all tests for heart, lungs, liver, kidney and everything was in complete order. I started test because I had constant nausea and bloated stomach that leads to have difficulty in breathing, high heart pulse and tightness in my chests. I know my symptoms and I was relating them to my diagnosis, but 5-6 times in last 2 weeks I have experienced tachycardia and difficult breathing so bad that I thought that I'm gonna have heart attack or stroke, and I finished 3 times on ER... In ER after confirming that everything comes from my Stomach and that I was experiencing A Panic Attacks and injecting Reglan and Diazepam they sent me home and I was fine until another episode starts, and I start to think what if it's not a stomach this time, what If now is my heart or lungs, and the heart starts to pound fastar and fastar, the berthing is again difficult and I race to the ER again and I'm so embarrassed after.
Another thing now is that I started to have phobias of traveling outside the town or going on places like mountains, beach etc, where there are no hospitals near.
What if I havr that situation and no hospital os near me? I'm embarrassed that I write this but I started thinking like this...
My question if anyone can help and share any ideas and opinions is: Do I developed some mental disorder like Panic Disorder or something, any advice how to deal with this and is there any hope that I'll start living my old life again.
Thank you in advance for your opinions and replays.