constant chest/breast discomfort/pain!
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Im wondering if anyone can help reassure me or give me some advice I have constant chest pain/discomfort/heavy pressure feeling in my chest and also in my left breast area it scares the hell out of me and then I get really bad pain between my shoulder blades! I know its not anxiety or panic attacks because I do suffer with them so I know what to expect but this is just a constant ache I have I just can't describe it, ache/pain/discomfort/pressure feeling, I had ecgs and blood tests a month ago when this all started and they was fine I had a chest x ray that was also fine, it's really concerning me as to the fact its still there after numerous medications e.g seriods, antibiotocs and painkillers (ibuprofen and co codamol) doctor assumed I had pleurisy or something called costochondritis - this hasn't been confirmed he just said that's what it could be! Im currently taking propanolol 10mg twice daily to calm my anxiety because doctors also believe I have that too im convinced its my heart the propanolol has calmed my heart rate (it was constantly pounding) im just so confused as to why I have this constant chest discomfort making me feel like something bad is constantly going to happen! Im sick of going to my gp for him to say its anxiety I know for a fact it isn't anxiety because this is constant and it's the only symptom I have got whereas when I do have a panic/anxiety attack I get every symptom under the sun! Im going to ask my doctor to refer me to a cardiologist as I really do think it's my heart its constantly on my left side and also centre of my chest I know its not pleurisy or costochondritis as my doctor says because my chest x ray was clear!! Can someone please tell me if they have had this before, how they got rid of it or what it is please im going out of my mind! I feel like im not breathing all the time obviously I am but that's how I feel my chest just feels shallow and someone sat on it constantly 
im 22 female and petrified it's my heart or im going to have a heart attack or something
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racheld1975 laura80515
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I have experienced everything you said and more and yes, it can be "just" anxiety. You may not think it is a panic attack or anxiety, why? Because it doesn't feel like the textbook version? I have been doing this for over 20 years, I have had every test they have, multiple times. I even had a heart cath in 2012 because they had done every other cardiac test and they were all normal and the doctor was being a bit of a jerk about the whole thing. He said he was going in to find out once and for all if there were any blockages or anything else they could have missed and when it came back normal he never wanted to see me again. Well he was right the results were normal, but that isn't how anxiety works. I would highly suggest that you see a psychiatrist and a psychologist asap, start treating the anxiety and not that thing they must have missed. I say this knowing it is way easier said than done, that is why therapy is so crucial. I have only ever had relief when I was on a combo of meds and in therapy regularly. The rest of the time my life is pretty much a living hell. But I started with all this when I was 19 years old and I turn 43 in July and I have not dropped dead yet, I have not had a heart attack or found some other horrible missed disease. I am still here despite feeling like I am going to drop dead most days. I hope you find comfort in that. Also keep a journal...write down EVERYTHING!!! Write down your symptoms, what you were doing when it started, how you were feeling emotionally, what did you eat, what did you do out of the ordinary, did you get in an argument with someone, did you drink a coffee, anything you can remember that might help to find a trigger if you have one. It helps you remember things when talking to the doctors and it also helps for you to go back and see that you felt that way before and you were okay then, and you'll be okay this time too. Best of Luck!!!