Major health anxiety

I had the same thing Sarah and had the all clear. I've been back twice and still have the all clear. Anxiety does weird things to your body! If it's worrying you, I would go to your GP and get another referral. You could literally write down 10 things that you fear the most / worry about and the chances are 9 of them won't happen in your life! Anxiety and depression makes us project negative thoughts and get worked up about situations that are never going to happen. I was constantly worried that I'd have a heart attack, would get to see my daughter born etc and yet, I'm still here lol. I hate the phrase "mind over matter" but in this case.....

I've been given beta blockers recently for anxiety (as well as Citalopram) and the beta blockers help regulate the heart and my palps don't happen half as much. Maybe worth asking for Propanolol (beta blockers) to take the edge off your anxiety. They are a very safe drug so you don't need to worry about taking it.

Any questions just ask

Tom

Having same at the minute, my left arm is sore in armpit area and across left breast, but no lumps and pain goes into sternum area. Have had palpertations for a long time now, GP did 2 ECG's a couple of days apart and said apart from the occasional extra heart beat all way fine, being tested for thyroid and if not that will have the holter moniter done. Started with a chest infection in left side in early February for which I was given antibiotics so should be cleared by now. I know what you mean though my heart races and I can feel and hear it in my ears, if that makes sense. It sometimes makes me cough and chest is sore. GP not at all worried, but I am. I am long term user of esomeprazole for GERD and I wonder if it is that, I am also menopausal so could be so many things.

Thank you, its just hard somettimes living with anxiety i know its all mind over matter its just doing it thats the hard stage but im relieved that others like yourselves are going through simlar events

Hey I recommend you read non-specific and medically unexplained symptoms on patient.info and NHS Choices as it's common yet feel it's relative to the level of clinical and medical evaluations a patient receives to sufficiently rule out physiological cause.. Heart trace reading produced by an ECG is a basic inexpensive quick and easy to perform assessment yet has limitations which may explain why they progressed to stress and holter have you had blood assessment?

I was 24 when I presented with vascular & circulatory health concerns which my Generalist Physcians were quick to catagroize me as belonging to a particular group of patients they call somatizers yet feel they've been discrimitive and prejudice towards my AGE and disclosing my use of online health information services as I presented many symptoms and reeled off a list of risk factors using healthcare terminology a characteristic they likely see frequently read through my prior posts for further search term references also anxiety is a symptom which can be primary or secondary I classify mine as secondary as generally felt my health concerns had been dismissed and symptoms trivalized but like Tomw1987 I also suffered with gastrointestinal & digestive condtions which I was taking proton pump inhibitors (20mg omeprazole) which further complicates investigating chest pain as they're many causes but naturally most are concerned with their heart