I have developed a lot of palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath etc. Hoping it's just anxiety and hyperventilation related, but I've never had a heart work up before so I've been referred to and going to see a cardiologist in about 10 days.
A couple questions:
Has anyone gotten tests done when they were severely anxious?
Does anxiety/ white coat syndrome mess with EKG/ECG results? My heart rate shoots up at the doctors and I am wondering if the EKG/ECG will say I have some kind of heart issue when its really just anxiety? Will the doc and the machine be able to distinguish this? Also I hyperventilate a lot and read somewhere that hyperventilation could possibly mess with intervals and stuff like that.
Has anyone experienced a situation when anxiety ruined their EKG results?