hey all,
I have so many worries about my heart health it's stopping me from being happy :(
tonight for example I got a stab of pain that went straight down the left side of my body my neck, arm and thigh that came with a faint head feeling... then not an hr later sitting back watching tv I get a warm spreading sensation in my chest, all over but mostly upper, Ive had this twice now it worries me because I was watching the Dr Oz show and one of his warning signs for heart problems blockages etc is a warm feeling almost fire like spreading through your chest... admittedly I have severe reflux that causes me alot of chest discomfort but I never get this feeling... I've had alot of ECGs and they come back ok but they wouldn't pick up a artery blockage.
for the last week Ive been very breathless, my chest hurts all over, I get ached in my left arm and side, not to mention crazy ectopic beats and irregular rhythm as well as being light headed. sometimes the beats feel like they r coming from my stomach if that makes sense. I am terrified at the moment more so than Ive ever been I have been feeling strange for a fortnight now and I feel as tho Im gonna die... I tell myself at least 20 times a day your gonna proably die today. I'm 23 and obsessed with my heart... nothing else worries me... not cancer or Ms or anything like that sometimes my brain worries me but the dr gave me a scan to check for aneyrsms so that fear was taken away so all the worry goes to my heart... it's driving me mad.
Logical my chest pain happens when I make sudden movements with my arms etc therefore it's probs muscular but I can't except that... someone told me if you have chest pain when you are moving then rest and it goes away then that's your heart ... I get chest pain when I move around and when I rest it goes away...I'm on information overload!!! disease of the 21st century, knowing to much... my brother says he never worries bout his health or heart because he doesn't know what the symptoms to various diseases and that my problem is I read to much therefore know to much I just need to relax...
what if the drs are wrong... they missed something and I have heart disease. I can't let it go... I use to be able to rationalize now Im becoming more and more disconnected HELP!!!