Lung pain and rapid weight loss

[NoraB]

Every second I'm in pure fear....my heart beats fast all day boom boom boom .

Your heart is going boom boom and is beating fast because you are imagining the worst (and most unlikely) scenario!

Engage your brain for a second will you?

What does your heart do when you have a 'near miss'? If you were to step out into the road and a car almost hit you - what would your heart do? It would go boom boom boom and race, but once the danger was over, it would gradually return to normal. This is the normal physical response to stress, and we would all be dead without it. What's happening with you is that your fearful thoughts mean that your fight or flight response never gets to return to normal - it's always engaged - hence your heart goes boom boom and races all day. This normal physical response scares you because you don't understand it. As well as this, there are numerous other symptoms caused by the stress response - symptoms which can affect every part of our bodies - most commonly the chest area and digestive system.

It's your thoughts which are keeping you in this cycle. You don't have to have a near miss with a car to trigger the stress response, your own thoughts will do just as well - because your brain doesn't know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. This works the other way which is why mindfulness can be so effective in reducing those stress hormone levels.

[BadCompany]

I'm very worried that I may have esophagus c$#&*! .
I can still swallow and drink fluids so far but I continue to lose weight .
I just wanted to say thank you guys for trying to help me
I pray for a miracle
I will update you guys along the way .
Hopefully I'm still here summer
Thanks again

[NoraB]

I'm very worried that I may have esophagus c$#&*! .

I can still swallow and drink fluids so far but I continue to lose weight .

So you have no problems swallowing but you think you have oesophageal cancer?

You will continue to lose weight while your anxiety is this severe.

I pray for a miracle

It's not a miracle you need BC, it's therapy to sort your health anxiety out.

[BadCompany]

Thanks Nora
But I'm not so sure.....I keep getting more and more symptoms I now suffer with bad constipation....I have been taking a lot of Gaviscon and Mylanta so I don't know if they are the culprits.....I never really had constipation for this long and bad...I lay awake at night in fear....

[NoraB]

Thanks Nora
But I'm not so sure.....I keep getting more and more symptoms I now suffer with bad constipation....I have been taking a lot of Gaviscon and Mylanta so I don't know if they are the culprits.....I never really had constipation for this long and bad...I lay awake at night in fear....

It's fear which is responsible for the majority of your symptoms - if not all of them.

[Fishmanpa]

.my heart beats fast all day boom boom boom .

Going home?

Positive thoughts

[BadCompany]

I've been having sharp quick pains in my arm pits and down near groin area but haven't noticed any swelling as of yet
I'm very worried

[BadCompany]

What causes Sharp pains in arm pits and groin area but they don't feel swollen ?
Thanks

[Fishmanpa]

What causes Sharp pains in arm pits and groin area but they don't feel swollen?

Electric shocks? Stab wounds?

FMP

[glassgirlw]

This will probably get merged with your other thread - but, you have lymph nodes all over your body. Not just in armpits and groin. The pains you feel could be muscular, or they could just be random pains. I get those all the time, and then they go away. Bodies are funny like that.

The real key is to manage how you react to these things. Because immediately jumping to worst case scenario is not the best solution.