Heart palpitations?

[bzs]

I'm a 20 year old girl and lately i've been feeling really weird. About 2 days ago my chest felt really tight and my breathing was weird- almost like someone was sitting on me. My chest would get randomly tighter and then release. I didn't sleep all night. The next day, the same thing happened except I started getting heart palpitations- or i think that's what it is. It feels like my heart is fluttering or something. Today I went to the infirmary and they did an EKG and a chest x-ray and everything was fine.

I know that these are symptoms of anxiety but the weird part is that I literally am not stressing out about anything. I have nothing to be anxious about. I've had anxiety in the past and every time, I could tell exactly where it was stemming from. I feel helpless. I hate the feeling of heart palpitations and i'm so scared that something is wrong.

Does anyone relate? Any advice would be super helpful.

[Paxiled]

This forum is full of stories like yours.  What I always say is, anxiety is first a way of thinking and only second physiological symptoms that stem from being really nervous for long periods of time.  If you're not thinking anxious thoughts or having irrational fears that are getting in your way, it's probably not anxiety.  That doesn't mean there's never something not at the surface that has popped up, but you say you're feeling good otherwise.  A lot of things can cause a feeling of chest tightness and palpitations -- for one thing, the chest tightness could have caused you anxiety just about that and caused you to feel your heart jump a beat, though it probably didn't actually do that -- you know, like having butterflies in the stomach before a test.  That's not anxiety.  That's concern about something actually happening.  Nobody can tell you what caused it, probably not even a doctor at this point, but it could have been you tweaking something, something more digestive related, a muscle spasm -- all kinds of things.