Anxious about my heart

Hi I’m new here but I’m completely freaking so I hope this is right place to ask !!

First off have really bad health anxiety, mostly focussed around my risk of having a heart attack and dying. In 2011 I had a coronary calcium score of zero and in 2017 I had a 24 hour ECG and an echocardiogram BOTH of which were completely normal. I’ve seen my GP numerous times and had a couple of ecg’s this year again all of which were normal and my GP keeps telling me my heart is fine...

What’s bugging me is I wear a 2nd generation Apple Watch mostly to track my heart rate on 25th after being stood up for 6 hours my heart rate was constantly between 145bpm (highest) and 120 average ... after reading online though this apparently can be normal as I was stood and that causes higher pulse plus was anxious??

On sleeping the other day with my watch on my sleeping pulse which is normally (according to the watch) around 60ish had dropped down too 43 bpm 😖😖😖

On Thursday more panic, I had a pain in my chest near bottom of my sternum that though only lasted a few seconds took my breath away, I remember hearing though that if you’re having a heart attack you wouldn’t be able to walk up and down stairs so I ran up and down my stairs 3 times and was fine; nonetheless I rang 111 and managed to get in and see a gp who took my blood pressure and my temperature (as I felt feverish) and also listened to my heart and lungs and said all was fine !!

On the Friday it happened again just laid in bed not log. After having evening meal and had same pain, again it only

Lasted about 20 seconds but felt like a lifetime and again felt like I was about to have a massive heart attack 😖😖😖

So my question is if it was a heart attack on both occasions would I still be alive now; would I know about it if it was a heart attack ?! Is heart attack pain different to I’m describing and can all these symptoms really be related too anxiety ?!?!

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