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I hate that my friends and family dont know how i feel. Mine gets worse at night. I hate hearing my heartbeat and feeling the blood going through my veins. Anyone else do that? I concentrate on it and i think something must be wrong. Im 30 and it seems like it just creeped up on me. I never had an issue like that until a year ago. I just want someone to talk to.
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Mandoza mkflanagan9454
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gill21655 mkflanagan9454
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It is hard when people dont know.
Some people can easily share how they are feeling ... Unfortunatley i was too proud and stubborn to let my family and friends know what i was going through... Too proud to let them see i had a weakness.. But in reality it is NOT a weakness .. anxiety sufferers are the strongest people i know .. coping with the daily mental and physical feeelings it throws at us out of the blue.
When i started CBT it was a relief to actually get it all of my chest ... it wasnt easy but i found it so beneficail and helped me on my road to recovery.
I hope you find some respite soon and start to get your life back on track 😊xx
billiejo86504 mkflanagan9454
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mkflanagan9454 billiejo86504
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Well I recently found out im having palpitations with pvc which are what people feel as skipped heart beats. They doctor can't find anything wrong and doesn't know if that's causing my anxiety or my anxiety is causing it. Either one could be the case. It seems as if I will go months and my anxiety will be fine then if just hits and in constantly checking my pulse or worried about any little thing my body does.
billiejo86504 mkflanagan9454
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I have extra beats first I had svt had ablation still got Palpitaions had ep study again found extra beats I knew something else was wrong feeling like I can't breathe I have some good days and I have bad ones had all this 9 years ago didn't find the cause me made it go away until last year I know mines not anxiety my health issues cause anxiety although heart palpitations and extra beats make u feel this way look it up the symptoms it changes the way u breath and makes u aware then u have that feeling like ur fighting and have to control ur breathing but still have that feeling like u can't or it's hard to or both don't give up trying to find the cause and no matter how you feel keep living keep calm
borderriever mkflanagan9454
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mkflanagan9454 borderriever
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well we did some tests everything came back good. He recommended me to a Psychiatrist and I went. I ended up in the ER and realized is was having pvcs or skipped beats which are actually extra beats but are normally fine. He wanted medication and I tried but it made the anxiety a million times worse. It eventually went away and I've been ok for about 6 months and here I am again. Anxiety is back
gerardo94025 mkflanagan9454
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Yes I have the same thing I get skipped beats and anxiety. I also don't know if one is causing the other 😦😤. But I do know that ever since this has happened I haven't been normal and thoughts are racing in my mind like about my heart why is it skipping and why am I so focused on it.it takes my breath away for a second and I'm back to normal but that causes so much anxiety. For me
gerardo94025 mkflanagan9454
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I think mine were of pushing my limits and starving
mkflanagan9454 gerardo94025
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still not sure yet. I've been to the ER twice with them happening very frequently and my electrolytes were really low and i had to stay overnight with IV. From what they told me and everything it could be causing my skipped beats but I think the prior times i was in there they didn't tell me anything about my electrolytes or being dehydrated. They also said my thyroid is borderline high and i need to get that checked out. I just want to figure out whats causing all this and be done. I never had any anxiety problems until i started having issues with these skipped beats
billiejo86504 mkflanagan9454
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I know exactly what you're going through I've been going through the same thing for a year no trying to figure out what'swrong I had tachycardia and palpitations for 9 years was put on metoprolol and it helped all of a sudden my medicine stopped working I felt sick short of breath felt like I could not breath like I did before well had ex study done had svt had ablation still have Palpitations had ex down again he noticed a few skipped beats had loop recorder put in don't know why he didn't do an ablation for the skipped beats maybe wants to see how many I get don't see him until Nov 13 I have my good days where I feel like normal and my bad days like 3 days now where I just feel like I can't breath I would say stay calm it only makes things worse stay busy go see a heart doctor that deals with the electrical part of the heart I had ekgs everything it showed normal when it was not the loop recorder is better it records every beat and ur Doctor gets the reports everyday keep ur head up we will solve the problem
alison88042 mkflanagan9454
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I've had the same anxiety over these ectopic beats for 4 years when they started. I can't tell you enough how this has changed my life. I constantly live in fear of feeling then and when I get them I think I'm dying or will have a stroke or something. I've had an ablation procedure but during this they couldn't find anything triggering them. This has caused me all sorts of other anxiety issues and now I worry about all aspects of my health. It's very reassuring to hear others who have the same. I look around at all my friends, family and work colleagues and they seem to be living normal happy lives and have no idea I'm living a life of hell. 😥
Liljade mkflanagan9454
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Honestly the only thing that really helped me in therapy. From there I learned about meditation and mindfulness. When I get anxious now, I pull myself unto the here and now and realize that I need to breathe and relax. I also take 25 to 50 mg of seroquil a night. Just remember that you worthy of being happy and successful and that controlling your anxiety is possible. It just takes work. Like forming a new muscle.
mkflanagan9454
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Well if anyone is keeping up with this i figured i would let y'all know how I'm doing. I finally got sent to the cardiologist and had a stress test and echocardiogram done. Both came back good. They did a heart monitor for 2 weeks and finally came back with something other than anxiety. Ive been having episodes of SVT. Got all the info on that and decided not to do the ablation. They said I'm only having svt for around 5 minutes when it happened. I know its only happened a couple times this year. My anxiety has been great ever since i finally got some information. I think the not knowing what was wrong with me and everyone telling me it was anxiety was making it soooo much worse. Thanks for all the responses. It really made me feel good that i wasn't alone.