Left chest pain and left arm pain

[redmysterygurl]

Hi, it's been a while since I was here, I hate to say that my health anxiety came back recently after years of being okay. I realize that a lot of symptoms can be anxiety related but I have high blood pressure and for a few weeks I have had pain on the left side of my chest that moves under my arm and a sharp pain that moves down my left arm. This pain comes and goes, it's not constant it just sort of pops up here and there. It woke me up this morning. Suffice to say I am worried and it sparks my anxiety but it's hard to tell if my anxiety is from the symptoms or if the symptoms are from the anxiety. Sometimes the pain happens even when I feel calm. I've been having PVC's too.

[NoraB]

Anxiety can cause chest pain, but you need to get the symptoms checked out first. (I would definitely be getting these symptoms checked out by a doctor)

[redmysterygurl]

Believe me I have have been checked a lot these last few weeks. (Abdominal and pelvic CT scan, bloodwork, GI visit I have ulcerative colitis and thought I was going into a flare, turns out it was IBS and bad bacterial overgrowth. And my bladder has been giving me issues feels like a UTI even when they check and I don't have one.) All of this is what put me back in an HA chokehold. These pains started a week or two ago. Meds have helped the HA somewhat, I'm not where I was, diagnosing myself with everything under the sun but I am nervous about the symptoms and what I do know they can be from. (I'm not googling anymore.)

[Fishmanpa]

Believe me I have have been checked a lot these last few weeks.

As someone who has had heart issues, I understand your concern. That said, if you went to the doctor and were tested for these symptoms, I would take that into account. Of course, if you're that concerned, get it checked out. If you get the all clear again then you can attribute this to anxiety symptoms.

FMP

[redmysterygurl]

Thank you. They didn't test for this particular issue recently but I'm trying to be level headed about it. I've had my heart checked in the past, stress tests, ultrasound the works for the PVC's. (It was a while ago though I know things can change and I was under a lot of stress from the anxiety a month ago.)