Hi everyone,
I'm in a very bad place right now. For about a week now I've been struggling with this horrible tightness in my chest and also a sharp pain that comes and goes. I have been extremely short of breath, I feel like I can't get a full breath in and that even if I could the tightness and discomfort in my chest is preventing me from actually doing so. Just walking around the house I have difficulty breathing. All this going on in the past week has sent me into a full blown craze. I thought I was doing so well and now I am convinced I'm dying and can't stop crying. I've been to the hospital twice in the past week because I was so short of breath that I was so dizzy and lightheaded that I swore I was going to faint.
I'm convinced that I have a blod clot which is causing all of this. Most of the doctors or nurses I have seen tell me it's anxiety related but I still refuse to believe them. They ran a D-Dimer Blood Test for me which is negative and assured me I don't have a blood clot but how can a blood test be 100% correct? I'm so scared. The doctor eventually said that he thought I possibly have costocondritis, which I think is just him trying to me any diagnosis so I would leave.
Another odd thing is that I constantly feel as if I need to clear my throat by burping or letting air escape. Even sometimes I need to yawn or open my mouth really wide in order to try and let a sufficient amount of air into my lungs. I also feel extremely nauseous.
Can anyone please shed any insight onto what I'm going through/feeling? Has anybody experienced anything similar at all that can help to ease my mind? I'm an absolute mess right now.