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633284 tn?1271714418

Anxiety/ Panic?? Just feel like my body is giving up??

Hi everyone,
My doctors keep telling me I am healthy and fine and that I am just panicking. So here it goes I am 23 y/o F and I have one child. I was originally seen in the ER for left chest pain in lower rib cage I pulled my muscle (so they said) But it ended up going away the next day, But I ended up gaining panic attacks and Anxiety. So all the test I have had done since my first panic attack...echocardiogram, Stress test, holter moniter for a month...All negative....blood work just the normal I guess everything came up fine. I have had a CT scan on my pelvic and Abdominal regins and I had a cyst. I have had a MRI with and W/o contrast on my head. everything came up normal. I am very aware of my heart always I get those PVC alot the doc said he only saw a couple on my holter monitor but that is normal and everyone gets up its whether or not they feel them. anyways I am still concerned I am going to just fall over and die I just have this weird feeling of emptyness (not a sad emptyness) just like everything in my body isn't working its hard to explain and then when I feel like that I feel short of breath...anyhow I just want to say MY first Symptom IS FEELING LIKE I am GUNNA PASS OUT! THATS MY FIRST SYMPTOM...I just feel like sometimes I don't get my point across to the doctors that my actual first symptom is feeling like I am gunna faint then I feel like I can't breath so I panic andc then I have that feeling of being scared all day waiting for the next one to come and I feel as if my body is gunna drop any second...these feelings come out of the blue especially if I am having fun and not thinkng about them...anyone please someone ease my mind or tell me you have my symptoms...evryone I knows that has panic get the racing heart ect but not what I feel.!! PLEASE HELP!
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633284 tn?1271714418
Thank you mammo,
                 That made me feel a lil better I see a therapist as well so I am hoping this helps, I have been seeing her for about a month and no changes so hopefully in the next couple of months I can get somewhere. I was put on Zoloft and it made me 10x worse and started the processes over again so I am going to try it on my own first and if I can't get this under control I will go back for help. Thats the hardest part is excepting that this is panic. Its nice to know other people had the exact same feeling it helps realize that I am not the only one...Thank  you for the reply! :)
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Anxiety affects us all differently, but a panic attack can start with the feeling of fainting.  It sounds like you have a clean bill of health but feel there is still something going on which is typical with anxiety.   You need to do your best to accept that all is well because as we know the fear feeds the anxiety.  Think about it like this, for all these bad feelings you've had nothing has happened.  Often as our anxiety starts to increase we tend to breathe in a shallow way, this in itself can make us feel faint. My panic attacks always began with me feeling like I was going to pass out, this scared me which just made things worse until I was having a full blown panic attack.  We're all different, and our panic attacks will vary from person to person.  Since panic attacks are caused from the "fight or flight" mode being triggered at the wrong time, they can come at any time, even when we are feeling our best. This is a normal thing just happening at the wrong time.  Our bodies are flooded with adrenaline which results in a panic attack because the adrenaline has nothing to work on.  Feeling faint is  your first symptom, and nothing more.  I know how scary this is, but the more you can accept that you are healthy the better you will feel.  At your age little goes wrong, youth has a lot of advantages and this is one.  It's good that you get checked out when a new symptom arises and just don't assume it's anxiety.  Try to dwell on how healthy you are after having all the tests and accept it.  You're too young to be burdened with this, work hard to get peace so that you can enjoy every second of your life.  Take care..
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