Anxiety.

I have been feeling the same thing. Heart racing and feeling dizzy and wanting to just sleep. I have PTSD. I am also a Iraq war vet. My doctor is going have me go to classes where I can sit in groups of people that can relate. Also get me on some meds.

Hey guys. I too share your symptoms, I focus on every little thing I deem as weird that happens to my body, every little spasm, gurgle, itch or pinch, and I always jump to the worst conclusion! Really peez me off because I know deep down these pains or gurgles are completely normal, the doctors have told me I have nothing wrong with me yet I still panic over anything. My heart has grown to be my main worry, few years back I began getting the odd chest pain here and there, till one night it lasted longer than normal and I couldnt take a deep breath, ended up calling an ambulance lol and they told me my heart was a little fast but its just because im panicked, this has stuck with me ever since and every time I have a panic attack I remember what she said to me, causing me to be irrational and assume im about to have some kinda perilous heart attack or that its going to explode in my rib cage lol every test I have ever had performed on me in my life has come back with nothing to worry about, yet I am haunted by the thoughts of sudden death lol its so stupid.....I have a whole back story to why I think my symptoms started in the first place, but I have wrote alot of pointless self pity already haha. Im glad to have found this site though, feels like it is helping me :-)

Just one more thing, if I can find the best way to explain it lol does anyone else experience this......at random times for no apparent reason I will get an instantaneous feeling of tingles rising threw my head and eyes, alot of body heat, sweating, compressed feeling on my eyes, a strange musty smell and sensation up my nose and the sensation my heart is pounding my chest. Everytime this happens I assume im dying and try to fight it, when it happens and im surrounded by people I just make conversation with them to take my mind of it lol sometimes it will be over quickly, witch is more often than not, but once its over my legs will feel weak and shakey, I hate it! And google is indeed a no no! Acording to that thing I have possibly over one million illnesses lol not good reading for someone who feels like they are about to die multiple times a day :-) ive learnt to laugh at myself......lol

This happens to me too! I'm 19. It feels like im going to have a heart attack, and even just talking about it makes it happen. Sometimes I'm afraid to sleep because I'm afraid I'm gonna have a heart attack. I'll get palpatations sometimes, but I know it must be anxiety because talking about it makes me feel it. I believe my anxiety is a result of being bursting with energy and not knowing how to control or release it, making it come out all at once and then leaving me empty. I find visualization and meditation really helps. When I feel like I'm having a heart attack I try to envision rainbows coming from my third eye and filling the room, then filling the house, then the street and so on.. This helps because its a sort of distraction and I notice its easier to breathe and I feel better after doing it, but it takes alot of practice and imagination. I hope you feel better soon ! 

Just wanted to say kudos to the person who came off paxil after 16 years. I am on it, it no longer does me any good and I cannot seem to get off it.

I started mainly with the really bad anxiety at 23 too. I have Hashimoto's disease and now Addison's but the Hashis likely contributed greatly to the anxiety. It isn't always just 'mental' but it is hormonal I think God bless all with this terrible problem x

Hey guys I had the same problem since December I was anxious all the time and would wake up abruptly during my sleep and would be sweaty and panicky all the time. Then I became concious of my heart beat and that would make it even faster as it would keep me up at night I was convinced there was something wrong with my heart.

Then one day I read someone post that said "your heart knows what it is doing and it is on your side it will try everything to keep you alive". I stopped worrying instantly because I decided rather than fight my heart I would work with it by trusting it. If it's beating fast and you can feel it, so what? Let it. It is reacting to how you feel so if you ignore it and you calm yourself down it will calm down and you can live together happily

Hey everyone, I'm 24 and from New Zealand, and I am soooo relieved to have found this forum! I have anxiety and the heart pulpitations too but after they stop it's sort of the oppisite to what I've read on here, my heart completly slows down to the point where I can't feel it and I freak out that it's stopped and I'm about to die... which then leads to panic attacks... I feel complelty numb, lightheaded and want to throw up. I sweat excevely, to the point where my armpits just drip and my hands and feet are all clamy... I actually experience these sweating symptoms 24/7, mainly from being nervous. I always get cold rushes, that sudden feeling you get when you think someone's found out your emabarrasing secret, or you've lost you're wallet... I even get this feeling during normal day to day activities. I know that my anxiety is all connected back to my huge fear of dying, I'm petrified of all transport... trains, cars, especially planes, but this is mainly because my dad is extremely over protective of me and has always pointed out what's dangerous, and particular ways that I could die if I did this or I did that etc... which has lead to my massive fear of almost EVERYTHING!!! It's awful because I know I'm a level headed person and that everything which is happeneing is competely absurd... made up in my mind. I just need to find a way that calms me down and I haven't figured it out yet. Thanks for everyone for sharing there stories, it's very calming to know I'm not the only one out there who suffers with this :-) 

Thank you sooooo much this helps! I am 11 and my mom will never take me to see the doctor about this! But for people who have anxiety attacks, taking a hot bath calms your mucsles down.  Also panic attacks only last 20 MINUTES. but my heart is beating very hard and its sh

I am 22. And I am currently suffering from same thing. I did not know other people my age were going through this as I am. I feel somewhat relieved now. I am going to tell my story. It all began a year ago when I was 21. The end of 2013 in Dec. I had my first panic attack. I had been VERY stressed. My mom was on drugs, and I had to pay all the bills by myself,me and my boyfriend wasnt getting along and I had my daughter to take care of. It got bad when my mom got on drugs because EVERYTHING bout her changed and our relationship wasnt the same nir me and my brother either . I went to the ER numerous times and gotten quite a few EKGS and they came bck good.I even went to see breathing specialist and everything came bck good. One day I had a dream that my daughter and my daughter dad was standing beside me while i was in hospital bed and my daughter said mommy I want u to come with me and I said i couldn't cause I had heart palpitation. I NEVER heard of palpitation before so Im like maybe that dream was telling me what was wrong so I looked up palpitation and what it gave me is similar to what I was going through. I have not seen a doctor since I looked up palpitation, im honestly tired of going. I was also given stress meds bck in 2014 but I never took them, I rather not tke pills. I also have nightmares and wake up out my sleep having a panic attack at least twice a week which is a pain. I've learned to calm myself dwn bur nit really control it.

New to this site. I've suffered with anxiety for as long as I can remember I'm 34 last January I developed AF which I'm now taking medication for. I also take 40mg of citalopram to help with the anxiety which as worsened since my diagnosis of AF. Only worry I have is that sometimes I can be watching TV relaxing or be a sleep when suddenly I get a hot flush like feeling rush through my body and I feel like I'm going to lose control of my bowels then my chest feels tight and my heart goes for it. It may only last a minute or less but then I'm left drain cold sweats shaking and petrified. My heart don't seem irregular so the doctors says it's anxiety attacks. As anyone else had these problems. Not had them as much since not working. But if I do excersise or do general house work etc I develop cold sweats and go cold and pale. The attacks seem to happen if I over do it. Please any help would be very appreciated

HI Haley,

I am a 31 year old male and i suffer from anxiety whenever i am in a car and it is rainining. one time my heart was beating so fast, i felt like i was dying. the worst case scenario is that your heart will stop beating and you will see a light and your brain will be connected to  your heart by supernatural ways i cant explain. My advise to you when that happens is to start praying then your heart will begin to beat in harmony with the prayer that you will be praying. Basically what i am trying to tell you is that it is not a heart attack you will not die. the palpatation will not kill you.. but you will sweat hey. Drop me an E-mail if you want to learn more. Oh by the way I almost went to college but i failed with my application. they said it was incomplete.

Hi Hayley,

Can relate to a lot of what you've said & i'm 21. It's very hard for other people to understand and relate to us if they haven't personally been through it. If you ever need someone to talk to about things then feel free to email me   sometimes you just need someone to talk to who can sympathise with you and who actually gets it

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Hi, I'm jen.. I'm 22 and I deal with the draining battle of panic attacks and generally worrying about worrying, I'm happy to share my story and find reassurance at the same time and to make sure I'm not going loopy and I know that I'm not alone. I'm generally a confident person although I don't always feel like it, however the stupidest things become the biggest and most magnified. A few years ago I had a panic attack when having dinner with my partners family. I found this so.humiliating and I was highly embarrassed and actually was worrying more about what everyone else was thinking of me, which then made me worse. I'm tall and slim so you can imagine what they were thinking leaving the table.. Oh she has an eating disorder (actually I eat alot but have a fast metabolism) anyways when I get nervous or a.panic attack,.sometimes they are unexpected but sometimes they are just brewing. I hate filling up at the petrol station (I know i know) how ridiculous right? Fearful of panicking and drawing attention to myself I guess.. Even I don't have all the answers to my own anxiety. I sweat, I gag or dry heave, I shake uncontrollably, I apologise for everything or say I'm sorry over and over, I get dizzy I feel sick, I lose control of my breathing. The list goes on. I've been with my boyfriend over 7 years we've been together since I was at school and now we have our own mortgage etc and he understands me and helps me but even if get annoyed at myself because the truth is the only person who can help.yourself is you. Medication is not the best option however I do take propranolol but I try to be stubborn and strictly only take it when I have to as I do try to cope with it myself. But I always say its easy to sympathise with someone for example who broke their arm because you can physically see their pain or suffering they are going through, so you can understand, however it's much harder for people to sympathise with someone who has anxiety because you can't see it constantly. I recommend reiki this has really really helped me. Trust me I was willing to try anything to get rid of this anxiety and it does help. And swimming! after reading the forum it's nice to know thousands of people deal with this and some who suffer much worse than me however at that time you just need help. Sending positivity to all be strong.. Think of your anxiety of a child having a tantrum and demanding your attention. Acknowledge it's a problem but you'll deal with it later. Hope this helps just 1 person :0) PMA positive mental attitude xx