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I cant find what I was looking for as far as topics go but seeings how a doctor told me I am having Panic attacks, which I think I have been I will post here. For a while now I have been getting pains in my chest. Every time these pains set in I begin having a sort of panic attack. Thinking something is going wrong with my heart or something. The doctor did an EKG on me and said it looked great but I think that was because for whatever reason I was really relaxed during it. My heartrate is always somewhat fast unless I am sleeping or trying to sleep. I dont know whats going on with me, and a little bit of opinion would be nice to hear/read. Also any ideas of what the chest pains could be because they arent just in my head.
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Yor doc is probably right, and if you've never had this kind of thing before it can be very terrifying.  The EKG, if I remember correctly, doesn't just tell what your heart is doing NOW, but also can show that an attack has occurred at some point in the past. But check this out with someone who really understands it.

And I'd suggest that you get infront of that doctor and be a bit more aggressive in demanding explanations, or such tests and procedures as will produce explanations.

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Please sombody. I just got woken up in the middle of the night from a good sleep because my chest is still hurting and my heart was racing.
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