Not sure what to think

I've had great news on Monday, I actually woke up feeling like it was going to be a great day and it was. I found something I was looking for and got an answer to a problem that was bothering me.

Now yesterday, I'm still a bit on a high and started the day well. I went out quickly while the kids were busy drawing to get the mail. I jogged over the mail box and as I turned someone I know honked to say high but surprised me. I jogged back home and noticed that I was feeling weird and like getting palpitation (I get the extrasystoles). I tried to ignore them as I've been working for a while and kept going for the day but at times they were really bugging me. Then I had a weird feeling like I was falling from inside and then a huge pressure point over my chest. I decided to pick up my stetoscope and listen to my heart. It was all out of sort beating unevenly, fast then slow then an extrastystole a normal beat another extra systole, fast, then slow. It scared me so I called my mom and step dad, we talked for  a bit and they said it would pass and probably was just the anxiety. It did eventually die down 4 hours later and I kept feelign on edge all evening. I went bowling with my league and kept feelign on edge and kinda overall scared. I got home and had a feeling that I was afraid to go to sleep. I read a book I've been reading with prayers for people with different issues. It calmed me down and I felt the sleep come on so I went to bed and slept really well. I woke up this morning (wednesday) feeling ok, Then taking my shower the events of the day before dawned on me and I started to feel anxious and on edge again. I feel fragile is the best way to describ it, like anything could do me in. I got a salty taste in my mouth and  dizzyness. I feel a pressure on my chest but I'm too scarred to pick up my stetoscope and hear the same weird thumping of my heart. Part of me is afraid it was a heart attack but part of my says I'm silly for thinking this. I"m not feeling  extrasystoles but I'm aware of my left chest feeling awkward and seems different then the usual anxiety.

My problem is that my anxiety is related to my heart and fight to leave my young family without a mom. So since working with a therapist every two weeks I've come to be afraid that I won't be able to tell the different between anxiety palpitation and heart attack. That is where I 'm standing now and I'm not sure what to do. My husband is like me cause he's seen me deal with anxiety and my parents the same. I don't want to waist any time of anybody if it's all right but I keep wondering...

[r9c]

Hi there,one thing i would have do is listen to your heart using stetoscope,by all means it should only be done by medical professional,we cant be sure what it is and ended up self diagnosed ourself thus creating high anxieties.If your worry about palpitations like me,its just best to get an ECG done by a doctor or a cardiologist which if came back normal then you can have a ease mind.What i think people who have heart attack episodes wont even noticed their palpitations because the crushing chestpain from a heart attack is so intense you probably be lying down on the floor.Thats what i have been told by most doctors and cardiologist.I think the best thing is seek a medical advice from a doctor or a cardiologist where they can run all necessary cardiac test :)

[r9c]

Typing mistakes " wouldnt have listen" to ur heart using a stesocsope.

[cj29]

Have you gotten checked out by your doctor?  If so, then is he/she suggesting anxiety?  My original experience with anxiety came from concerns about my heart.  In my opinion, we become so attuned to what is happening in and around our percieved problem area, any weird feeling is going to raise the alarm in our minds.  I still feel every palp, pain, twinge, etc.  The difference now, is how I interpret these feelings.  I know that they are not a big deal because I have had the applicable tests done and I get a yearly physical.  Convincing myself was initially very hard to do, but I believe you are on the right track. Thearpy can be a long and arduous process but it is going to give you the knowledge to confront and deal with this.  Keep working on it and don't be too hard on yourself when you have a bad day.  Keep us posted!

[MartineMoreau]

"Well I went to the emergency care office cause I thought they'd give me a run of the mill but instead I  might as well have walked in with a sign over my head saying ANXIETY SUFFERER. After seeing the nurse and getting my vital, saying why I came in. The doctor finally came busting in saying I had a panic attack. I told her no, I had palpitations that were out of the ordinary for me and wanted them checked out to make sure it was anxiety and nothing else. I told her of my symptomes and all, she was ready to write me a prescription like that is the only way to deal with it. I told  her I didn't want meds that I was seeing a therapist, the problem wasn't my anxiety, it's just what happened yesterday. So I asked her ok, here is my question: I suffer from anxiety over my heart health which is why I came in, how do I know the difference between palpitations and heart attack?      I was told the heart has two part the pump and the electrical, that a heart attack affected the pump and anxiety the electrical. So my heart will feel it goes fast or palpitate and it does.

Then I was told that I'm too young, and don't have any signs that would make me prone to a heart attack to just get that out of my mind (in an incensitive way).

I got out more frustrated then anything, I wasn't listened to, treated like a label, and not felt listened to. She didn't even listen to my heart or see if it the numbness is muscular. Just talking about anxiety. Well the everywhere heart beat probably were from the fact that I was surprised and scared but at one point it didn't feel like the typical anxiety palpitations or fast heart beat. It took me a whole day to decide to go and see someone and I don't feel they understood me. She obviously only knows the medical side to it and not the emotional. I came home and vented with my mom and realised I shouldn't have since she has lots to deal with herself. I feel so alone sometimes trying to vent, its so hard on people close to me, I don't want to pill it on them but I need to take it out you know.

I was diagnose last August with anxiety at that place and was given meds which I didn't like the feelign and came to realise that it's not the way I want to deal with this cause meds just mask the feelings but it doesn't deal with the true  issue which is what I want to deal with.

Thanks for replying, it helps to know that I'm not alone.