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Heart disease or anxiety?

I'm a 17 year old male and I've been suffering panic attacks since I was 14. My first panic attack happened at night I felt like my heart was beating too fast and I had my mom take me to the ER because I was panicking  . I had blood tests done, EKG, and an X-ray of my chest. Everything was absolutely fine my EKG was good blood test and xray all came out fine. It wasn't until 2 weeks later I was lying down and I felt a weird sensation in my chest, it felt like my heart had just jumped out it was like a hard beat. I went to the ER again and everything came out fine again. This happened several times I've probably been to the ER about like 9 times now I also went last week. Even when I don't feel anxious I get these weird heart beats I heard they're called PVCS. I never had this problem before I was always active and healthy before I had my first panic attack. I don't even know if it's anxiety or heart disease anymore what should I do?
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You say you don't get any explanation so wonder if it could be disease? The doc must tell someone so are they talking to your parents?
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The doctors say that my heart is fine
Ok, you are fine but the problem is you can't accept the doctor's diagnosis so you keep worrying they are wrong. They have a lot of training so they are professionals so you have to find some way to accept that if you are to get rid of anxiety.
Here is a chart of ways you can die and at your age heart conditions are way down the chart. Accidental death is the leading cause and you don't even think about that. Plus those people who died of cardiac at your age likely were never checked so could have had a problem undetected whereas you have been proven not to have any problem.
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_All_Deaths_By_Age_Group_2010-a.pdf
Here is a better chart. Cardio is a tiny % maybe 4%.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-common-cause-of-death-at-every-age-2014-5
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