Obsession over symptoms
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Crazy how powerful and wierd our brains are, huh?
Long story short, i've had healthy anxiety all my life, but it don't come with physical symptoms up until I was 19 and i'm now 24. Most of it centered around my heart, chest pains etc.
So I was getting chest pains, went for an ecg, it was normal and got told to carry on its probs anxiety. But that wasnt good enough for me, I was obssessed over it, I couldn't walk down the street without getting chest pains, I couldnt play football without getting chest pain, any time i did any kind of running/walking, I got chest pain. I researched it to like 20 pages back on google (haha, scary places those back pages of google eh?) and saw all wierd stuff you could have wrong with your heart without a normal ecg picking it up. So that just convinced me even more, I've got a heart problem and they just havent found it yet.
So anyway like i say, I was getting chest pain what ever kind of excercise I did whether it was walking round a shopping center or running on a football pitch, i 100% had a problem in my head. I went back and ended up eventually having every test going, stress ecg, echo, 72 hour ecg, stress perfusion cardiac MRI.. normal he said, get on with your life.
So I thought right ok, instead of googling 'chest pain heart problems' ill research anxiety and chest pain, and found that it's quite common, something called Da Costa syndrome.
And thats it BANG, within a month, no chest pain whatsoever, as soon as i knew it was anxiety, it went, I cycle 35 miles at a time with no chest pain whatsoever, when before I couldnt walk 5 mins down the road without getting it.
Your brains very powerful, but unfortuantly once you get rid of one symptom, another one comes along for you to obsess over. At the minute mines chest tremors, it feels like a muscle tremor, just a quick sharp 0.5 second tremor, sometimes it feels like it's on the outside of my chest, other times it feels like its on the inside of my chest, I get the feeling that this is going to be another thing that happens all the time until I get some kind of explanation on whether it's a heart palpitation or not, it doesnt feel like a heart palpitation but its strange. I notice it happens on days when the muscle tremors round my body are bad, like on my legs, arms etc.
Anyway, sorry sometimes I just like to write what i'm thinking because nobody knows whos close to me that I still suffer from anxiety, to them im just normal dan 
Enjoy your day!
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alice63952 GYDA
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Thank you for your post. I can't tell you how helpful it is to have it reassured that it's our powerful brains creating these symptoms.
I suffer with anxiety attacks surrounding choaking and suffocation. Its nice to read such a reassuring post.
Thank you and good luck
GYDA alice63952
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The thing is, its all anxiety, and I think we all know deep down it is its just convincing yourself. When I had all those tests done and they came back clear, I looked like an idiot, nobody understands that these symptoms we talk about are 100% real, i dont imagine chest pain just like you dont imagine that suffocation feeling.
ChelseaLouise33 GYDA
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I totally agree with you I think I have health anxiety and one symptom comes on and when that goes bang I have another symptom to panic over its horrible isn't it.
amberfking GYDA
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I'm currently dealing with this as well. It's life consuming. I've had it off and on for a couple months. I've had anxiety for awhile but my health anxiety started a few years ago when I had my first physical symptom of anxiety. I was never worried much about my heart. Always my brain or my lungs. Now my heart is all I think about. I have constant chest pain, chest tightness, back pain and sometimes heart palpitations. I've had EKGs done and everything came back fine. I still can't shake the feeling something is wrong with my heart tho. I can have all these symptoms just laying in bed watching netflix or when I'm with my boyfriend etc. Sometimes it never stops. Even in my sleep I feel it in my dreams. Crazy I know. It's always good to know you're not alone tho. I always felt like I was the only one feeling this way. Take care I hope you can continue to keep the symptoms away ??