Anxiety Pain
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Right now I feel so dreadful, does anybody else suffer with pain? I have it shoot all over my body!
Mainly in my left side of chest, under breast bone, shooting through too my back!
I also have them in my neck, stomach and occasionally not to much in my arm/hand/leg
Had tests done all normal! Had heart palps just been told I have ectopic beats where my heart just beats faster occasionally but all normal after seeing a cardiologist.
Had so many tests!
Is this all normal with anxiety? Just can't get my head round it
🙈
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mac58 Guest
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Unfortunately, all the symptoms you're having are very common in anxiety disorders. I see that you've had lots of tests which had normal results, and I'm guessing that you're worried that the doctors have missed anything.
If you read through the posts on the anxiety forum, you'll see that you're not alone - also that people have trouble believing that all their tests have accurate results. That is the nature of health anxiety.
Have you talked to your doctor about the anxiety issues? Usually therapy helps and sometimes medication can be prescribed.
Just remember that we're all here for you.
Guest mac58
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I do find it so hard, really feel they've missed something!
Especially when I first went in and the nurse in the cardiology department said she'd not seen a rhythm like mine.. so got passed in to a specialist cardiologist and said it's normal and that anxiety could mess up my rhythm too 🙈
I have been to my doctor and he prescribed me setraline, just don't feel like it's doing anything, had fluxotine too..
had these pains since January, so tiring
Thank you ??
mac58 Guest
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How long have you been on sertraline?
It worked wonders for me. You have to get to the right dose and it can take about three months to kick in properly.
I suffer from quite a lot of pain, too, and I've recently been started on gabapentin. That helps such a lot.
Keep posting so that you get support.
Joe79711 Guest
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I'm glad I read your post.... I have been dealing with something similes in the last 4 weeks.
Started with chest pain, then stomach pain that went to back, and weird pains in strange spots on my body. I too feared something bad, I thought maybe cancer.
I have had soo many tests the past 3weeks... CT scan, abdominal ultrasound, upper GI series, chest x-ray, blood panels... all normal too!
I too keep thinking they are missing something a lot. However I'm starting to believe this is all anxiety and stress. Have you been under stress or had something traumatic happen?
Might ironically happened after a few health scares in family and a close friend suddenly dying. Now I find myself trying to dig myself out of my own stress and anxiety and it's hard.
Guest Joe79711
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I have had these pains since January! Feels like it's so on going and never going to stop!
I always fear that I'm dying or I have something so severe! My heads a complete mess!
A year before I started getting these pains.. I did suddenly lose my mum.. happened out of no where!
The day before she was fine playing with me and my son having a takeaway.. the next morning.. gone!
I just struggle to get my head around how you could be so ok.. then not?
So I know where the root is.. it's just getting my head around it.
And today.. I've woken with an abscess in my mouth where I had my wisdom tooth taken out 2 weeks ago.. and obviously that's set me off big time! I'm all over the place! Scared the infection will spread and so on..
I hope you feel better soon, and I'm so glad you're starting to get humour head around it all. I wish you all the best! And keep posting your updates.. ??