Advise on chest pains?

[afierros]

I am a 36 year old female, married with one child.  My anxiety started to sore when I found out I had ovarian cysts in October and no health insurance.  Now that the cysts are gone and I have health insurance my anxiety is still with me.  I guess mainly due to being in debt, paying for temporary health coverage because my husbands company is on a hiring freeze, me being laid off, having endometriosis, and this bad economy.  Lately, I get these pains, not sharp but almost a short throb in my heart or under kinda like around the breastbone.  Sometimes I feel it on the left but not as much as I do in the right.  I am sord of a hypochondriac.  I read stuff on the internet and I think I have every problem out there.  I am trying to steer away from that.  I do have too much time on my hands since being laid off.  I have been looking and looking for work and I have been overwhelmed with frustration.  Do you think all this is what could be causing the pains.  I had a EKG in November and everything looked good.  I don't even know why I had that done.  I still had the cysts and that caused a lot of anxiety.  I had surgery Jan. 6 and I still feel the effects og it.  I shouldn't pick things up that are heavy but I noticed when I took out the trash it was heavy and I lifted it up to throw it in the compactor.  After I did that the pains occurred.  Sometimes they occur if I am totally relaxed and on the computer or just lying on the couch.  Please if someone could give me some advise.  I did check my blood pressure and everything is normal.

[birdie0907]

I had lots of chest pains when I had a big anxiety problem a year ago. I saw the doc in a panic, but she said it was just muscles and tendons pulsing in my ribs. It scared me since it was on the left side, but the doc said a heart attack is a very hard pushing feeling as opposed to the sharp pain I had.
It would occur daily over months, and the worst feeling was when I was in bed. It all went away with the panic, when my med kicked in, so you have nothing physical to worry about from this pain.

[upsetwoman]

Do you exercise?  That will always help anyone.  The sadder or more anxious I get, the more things tighten up and make me feel sick.  I understand what you mean about reading and reading to find things wrong with you.  When I was younger, I did that too.  I was told I had cysts and had alot of pain right into my back about 25 years ago.  I'm still here now at 50 and more fit than then.  When you're down and anxious too, nerves can tighten up and cause peripheral pains everywhere.  My tight, painful neck hurts right down into my back, into my arms and to my fingers some days.  My neck makes me weak and gives me headaches.  I was hurt badly in an accident so it limits muscle conditioning to nothing.  I still do cardio though.  It gets a bit inflamed, but it's more manageable than muscle conditioning . I would spend some time muscle condiitioning and doing cardio if I was you.  You can read good books.