My heart feels strange
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Hi
I've been to my doctors numerous of times and she has told me everything is fine with my heart. I've had routine blood tests - came back clear apart from a little high protein (she told me this was nothing to worry about). I've also had a ECG done and that was fine. But I'm not convinced... My heart just feels strange all the time - I NEVER get palpitations ever. My heart seems to beat irregular or skips beats. I guess it's like a fluttering feeling in my chest. Also I sometimes have chest discomfort, which seems to go into my left arm and back. Does anyone else have these symptoms and are they anxiety related? I'm sick of worrying!
Thanks in advance x
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stacey_30625 charlotte96197
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Hi do you get chest pains to.. I am 23year old and I hAve had this illness since I was very young age but some reason it got alot worse and I feel like am going crazy .. anyway I have heart palpitations which I feel like my heart is beating to fast feel like am going have a heart attack or sometimes it skip a beat or just feels weird . Now am getting chest pains 24/7 on my left chest n it spread under my ribs or in middle of my chest and on my left arm sometimes my face goes numb and my hand. I do exercise even breathing excerise it doesn't work it get worse sometimes it's there for a second and goes away and comes back again but when it comes back the hurtful sharpe pain get stronger each time . Some times pains there for ages and don't go away til 15 mins .it scares the hell out of me I have tryed everything but nothing seems to work just let it come I try to fight it but sometimes I get freaked out the pain gts that bad I even pass out and sleep for 3 hours and when I wake up I get even more tried. It's 1.44am in uk and I got chest pains again it is ruining my life really badly. I have been doctors million TIMEs and all they say is its anxiety attack I have had ambulance out good few times with ecg it's normal I have had some bloods teSt it's normal but I havent had chest x ray . I am very worried can ppl please tell me if u got same situation and how can you cope. I do gt chest pressure to and it does get alot worser in night time when I layed down. I do have depression . Bipolar . Ocd . And anxiety disorder and social anxiety.I know when my anxiety starts coz I can't keep still at all I grinch my teeth together all day and night the next day my jaw will hurt for days or even a week so it now get to the point am biting on a dummy. I do choke on my food alot or choke in thin air (choke on nothing) I have insomnia which that is pain in the butt I just can't keep still I can't relax I can't even watch TV without jumping up or shaking my legs or biting my nails or anything I can bite on . Pass few months I was very ill which I thou I was dying I didn't had a bug or a flu it went n it came back again few weeks ago I feel like my heart not beating at all just chest pains and heavy presure. I have stop taken all my meds I have tryed all the meds the doctors have give me some them didn't work at all some them made me really bad n some them made me want to suicide and some them that scared hell out of me I won't even take it at all I have told my doctors I can't even swollow tablets I have to eat them or drink liquid meds everything I think is dangerous I think everything going to hurt me I don't feel safe at my own home or anywhere else even am with friends n step family I still get bad. I have been feeling very weird which it is hard to explain but I feel like am not me am not a person everything don't seen ti be real including houses. TV .ppl .this earth it is hard to explain . I have now don't remember anything not even appointments .days .weeks.wat I did yesterday. Or wat ppl has said to me like 2mins ago or wat I said or going to say etc. Sometimes I see things that are not there (not a ghost) sometimes I hear things like voices but everyday I hear in my brain buzzing noises like if u listen to loud music on headphones or u got earache that kind of sounds. Anyway this is my short notes don't want to make it big can anyone please help me if you having all this doctors are useless please
maury33453 stacey_30625
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Hi Stacey I to have heart palpitations I know they are very scary.when I first experience them I've been in and out of the er.docs did every test on me said I was fine . I am 42 yrs old and I never seen the dr more in my life then that first month. That weird feeling you where talking about where thing didn't seem real is called depersonalization .I've also experienced that but over came it.anxiety and it's symptoms are a pain. I know. I've read this book called The power of now and has helped me a great deal and now reading a second by the same author called A new earth. Check them out they may help you,like I said they help me out a great deal. Thanks
simone_28508 stacey_30625
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Hi Stacy I had all the symptoms u r describing for 2+ years straight, been to many Drs wasn't anything I didn't check did various test on my heart everything was normal....got a bad anxiety attack went to a private clinic finally I was diagnosed with anxiety was placed on lexotan 1.5 mg three times a day which is what eventually started easing my anxiety after 2 plus years, also I always felt that I had a brick on my chest constant heavy feeling I was also given medication for acid reflux zantac 150mg which also worked for me, it's been over 2 years although most of symptoms are gone I do still get anxiety which I've learned to control for myself without medication but I do take kalms if necessary, I still do get reflux when it does act up I still take zantac which works for me but I am going to see a specialist cuz sometimes with long term acid reflux it can definitely be allergies. I sometimes get those same weird sensation in my chest sometimes, another thing is at night as im about to dose off I get this weird pulsating feeling that keeps me up. My advice to anybody living with anxiety it can be controlled the way I use to feel I honestly never thought I'd be alive today, ones mind is a very powerful thing.
tpat30 simone_28508
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This is reassuring to hear. I was about 23 when I first had palpitations. I was on meds for high BP, nexium for heartburn, and went out and drank and ate late. I think that all contributed to my first palpitations. They woke me up and I thought I was having a heart attack. Went to the ER and ended up being okay. Suffered from insomnia for a month and a half, worst time of my life, but got through it.
I've had about 10 episodes of palpitations in 6 years. Not bad. They're easier to manage when they happen. And it's always at night around 2-5 in the morning. Weird. I had one a few weeks ago that last for 20-30 mins instead of the usual 3-5 minutes. Almost went to the hospital again.
Once again it was a bit traumatic for me. I seem to have bouts of health anxiety here and there where something scares me and I kind of obsess over it until I forget or am tested. Because of these latest palpitations I had a little health anxiety. Soon after I went on a cruise ship. But this time I felt pressure in my chest on the plane and on the cruise.
I believe this to be anxiety for really the first time in my life. It's weird. I'm almost positive I am healthy. But I too have bad hearburn and I think the heartburn and anxiety feed off each other. I get that "pulsating" feeling that you mentioned. Sometimes I get it throughout the day and some nights I get it as I, too, am starting to doze off.
It's almost like a weaker skipped heart beat. Just like a slight vibration. Hard to describe. I think shallow breathing contributes to it. But I'm glad someone else has felt this. That feeling can lead to more anxiety. My question is, does anxiety just pop up randomly? I'll have a perfect day and I'll be sitting down, and out of nowhere I'll get that pulsating feeling. A bit uncomfortable, but not painful.
ashlee76670 tpat30
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NalaTheLion charlotte96197
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I get those too... It's caused by stress. Have you ever had your eye twich out of nowhere while relaxing? Or even Had your arm or leg twitch after work out? Only muscles twitch or spasm. Since your heart has a muscle chamber around it. It may seem like there's something wrong with it. But nothing is really wrong. But for me when my heart flutters for some reason it's a little hard to breath cause it twitches too hard. Lol sometimes it makes my flesh crawl but your all in good hands.
lindsey1986 charlotte96197
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Hi.i read your article and i was wondering how you are doing?my heart goes out to you because i have been there.i remember my first panick attack.i was 13 years old. i ended up taking a valume.but that is not what i recommend.i ll tell you i grew up with alot of arguing between my parents.trouble at school.and all that created anxiety.which i didnt know what it was at the time.i was depressed etc.and ill tell you our mind is a tricky thing.it will tell you.you are gonna die!.but with anxiety it has a root.you have to figure out what it is.i had a fear of dying and not knowing what would happen to me so in turn i found a way to cure that.i turned to a Jesus.read your bible and pray.seek after the things of God.that can bring reasssurance to your soul.im 30 now.i didnt know i would make it this far.but i did.maybe you have found the "cure" already.but this was mine.let me know how you are.anxiety is terrible
aky3aky charlotte96197
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I do have same symptoms but doctors don't see anything I got ECG too, and blood test and all that, all good but something not normal on heart side.. Don't know what it is..
Cierra charlotte96197
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OMG I have been feeling the same way I went to the hospital had an EKG done I had an x-ray done blood drawn heart monitor then they find nothing wrong I was like something is wrong with me I've been filling strange in my brain my heart been felling strange my body my mind and soul i'm getting pains in my left chest underneath my breast under my arm in Pain in my back on the left side. My eardrums hurts I even got my eardrums check The doctors told me I didn't have and air affection I was like you're not telling me the truth somethings wrong I'm thinking about seeing a heart doctor
abadat75399 charlotte96197
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since from 2.5 years i am facing uneasy,loosing control on body,palpitation.
i tested too many time but there is no problem in my body.
i have upper back pain and also my ankle and feet pain too much.
i seem that now it is second inning of my life,i can not not enjoy my life,lack of confident in public,and every time thinked that something is happening to me and if i am unable to reach the hospital i am going to die.
before i used to travel alone now a day can not move outside with anyone .
in flight i enjoy but now a day i have fast heart beats .
or if i am right i think i have some problem that way i feel this type of feeling or the doctor are unable to find out what happen to me.
when it happen i can not face and trying myself to rush to the hospital.
plz suggest
rebecca9111 charlotte96197
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I feel like my heart going to stop I have all day symptoms I hate it am so scared I have 4 kids I've been doctors so many time hade ecgs there normal I just done believe them I feel I have a heart problem then when my heads hurts n it feels weird I think I have a brain tumour I'm always reading symptoms anyone else feel like me xx
samuels rebecca9111
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From what you have just described and as a past sufferer myself, it sounds like you may have panic/anxiety issues going on at this stage.
Sorry I replied to the wrong person with my response 5-10 minutes ago.... to charlotte, sorry.
rebecca9111 samuels
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Thank you I've had it for years I don't no how it feels to b normal I'm always concentrating on my heart I always think I have a heat problem I don't no what to do xx
samuels rebecca9111
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I fully understand, it's very difficult I know, like you I've been there before, it took a good understanding doctor to realise that it wasn't panic/anxiety in my case with my angina, as like you my ECG's and other heart related tests came back normal, it's a complex issue, and as panic/anxiety sufferers we know our bodies / feelings best. I knew my chest pains were starting to feel different because it manifested in a different way, if that makes sense to you ? I suffered from panic/anxiety for 26 years and I knew just about every trick the brain could throw at us to confuse us, panic chest pain is very different from angina / heart attack pain, I don't care what any doctor says, and some found out here when I had my first heart attack, they did change their tune in how they diagnosed me, it had them scratching their heads, wondering what caused it, the heart attack, then one doctor came up with a probable diagnosis and has been concurred with by several cardiologists that I suffer from small blood vessel spasms in the heart and prinzmetal angina ( coronary artery spasms).
You know you body better than anyone if it doesn't feel like a panicky or anxious moment then it's most likely not so you must get it checked out.Like I said from your description it sounds like a panic/anxiety issue, but I'm not a doctor, just an ex sufferer of the horrid disabilty, it sounds as though your brain is trying to convince you that something is wrong with you on a daily basis sending you to Google which confuses you more with other actual organic conditions like angina, brain tumours and the list goes on. I know you probably have tried this but when your brain is telling you something is wrong try and divert your attention away from that thought, relax, slow deep breathing, keep your mind occupied , it's not easy to do to start off with but with practise can be done. If you can get that sorted out then take it from there, if you do have an organic failure the symptoms won't fully disappear even when relaxed.
rebecca9111 samuels
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So did the miss diagnosis u then that scares me 😳 I don't no what to believe aw think these days tbh this is getting the best of me