Originally Posted by
Inanna
Hi kuraimoar
sorry not to have replied earlier, I’ve not been in a very good place.
in answer to your question, yes, I do carry an awful amount of tension in my shoulders. I constantly have to tell myself to relax my shoulders, I hunch them up all of the time.
The pain has not gone away, and now my mind has been telling me I have heart disease, which has given rise to all of the symptoms.
The trigger was when I rang to get a referral to a phsyio and explained my symptoms, they immediately started asking about breathlesssness, chest pain or any heat conditions! And so I started freaking about. Added to that, I have just come back from a walking weekend, where I was doing some coastal walking. This involved quite a few steep climms, and on one of them I kept getting a twinge between my breast and my armpit. I was very breathless too, but the ascents were steep as I say.
I keep trying to talk myself down. Just under two years ago I had an ecg, and echo and a running ecg, which all came back fine apart from a benign right bundle branch block. But could heart disease progress in two years to put me at serious risk? I am in my fifties, but I do excercise, don’t smoke, rarely drink, and go to the gym. I am about 7lbs overweight though, and I have anxiety..
maybe I should pay for a new set of tests? It’s not cheap, but it’s so hard to live like this
Inanna xx