NEED ASSURANCE!!

[anxiety_freak92]

Ok I'm a regular anxiety sufferer and take meds,  yesterday I woke up with a really sore left breast bone,  right on top of my heart!!!!  I began panicking and had a mild heart attack!  I rushed to the ER,  the doctor examined me,  BP fine,  pulse fine,  listened to my heart,  fine!!  He said I had a case of inflammation in my rib cage due to my asthma & sent me home with ibuprofen .... I can't shake the feeling of impending doom,  as if the doctor didn't catch something!!!!  I also had a ekg in March and was fine,  do you think I'm just being paranoid???  HELP!!!

[anxiety_freak92]

Hello!!  Your anxiety & paranoia are all too familiar with me!!!  & believe me its no.walk in the park!!!!!  I'm turning 20 years old in a few days & have been dealing with this since I was 16!!  I'm a complete hypochondriac with extreme generalized anxiety disorder!!  I have been obsessed with having any and every terminal disease in the world!!!!!! Every day is a constant struggle for me,  I take an antidepressant & anti anxiety Med (buspar & lexapro) I can assure you that your totally fine & being paranoid which is causing you to have such symptoms!!!!  Have you done research on anxiety & hypochondriasis???

[johnny178]

Ok here's my story, I'm currently in Kenya for the past 9 months and around 2 1/2 months ago I had oral sex with a prostitute, because this idiot who I met was also from the UK so he said obviously use protection he reassured me by saying he came here and went there (***** house) every year for a holiday since I was 15. I just don't know what hit me I was high that day I thought why not I went there all I wanted was oral sex with a condom I made sure it was secure my only worry was that I had shaved either that day or couple before and I had a little cut on my finger the problem is that I'm not certain if her fluids came into contact with my broken skin, ever since then I was panicking I told my uncle he was the only one who is native to this country he took me to a clinic three days after the I was really stressed out but the test came out negative I was overjoyed I couldn't believe it I  was like I'm never doing that again then like 9 weeks after I caught the flu I was really anxious I was thinking to myself I'm certain that's a symptom of the deadly HIV virus I kept on thinking to myself mentally imagining what would happen suicide the list goes on but what made it worse was that after I caught that flu I thought it was because I quit smoking I realised the last time I quit I experience some sort of anxiety related problems and then after 18th day of quitting smoking my mother fainted I thought it was a ,major problem with her I couldn't take it I went back to smoking before then like a week after I noticed that my eyes dilated I couldn't see properly it was like I was in a constant state of dizziness light really affected me my mouth is so dry so I started researching the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal bang it made sense so once I went back to smoking those same symptoms stayed with me so i went more crazier i started noticing my skin      to check signs of lymph nodes it never leaves my mind thankfully never major as happen so far God Forbid anything does im almost approaching the 3rd month since that incident im really anxious but this past week ive been going out i noticed my skin itching has gone away but my eyes are still dilated and my mouth is still dilated i really want to go to doctors and get myself checked out but its 50/50 chance imagine living with this disease the stigma I cant get married have children I'm only 20 at my prime I'm strong believer in faith and committing suicide is not the way as far as I'm concerned my faith teaches you'll get punished in hell forever and in the current state I'm in I'm really paranoid another thing is that I caught the flu again and I believe its flu season now but I believed I have generalised anxiety disorder so I researched it and it can weaken your immune system but I'm still not certain I know what I done was low risk of getting the disease but I was really immature, cant I die of something else not like this not right now not so young I really need to see a councillor/ pyscologist the biggest problem is that I am not in the UK right now and I need to go there you trust a medic down here but my parents want me to stay I want to go back but they want a good enough reason if you don't have money down here your a nobody I have to keep everything low key and this stress is really unbearable maybe I could be a hypochondriac but this dry mouth and dilated eyes are really scaring me I just keep on thinking which symptoms could come like I just really want my life back you don't know what you have until you loose it sorry for this long comments please give me help or advise Peace People sorry for my grammar my concentration levels are too low.

[cj29]

Anxiety can manifest itself in many forms in my opinion.  My original experience had to do with concerns related to my heart health.  In my experience, if we fear something, we can relate any symptom we feel back to what concerns us when it is not physically a cause for concern.  I also convinced myself that something was wrong with my heart despite reassurances from the docs.  I believe we tend to 'over sensitize' ourselves to symptoms that we feel threatened by.  I also believe we misinterpret these symptoms as something catastrophically wrong with us when we probably would not even pay attention to them if we were not experiencing anxiety.
Are you in counseling right now for your anxiety?  For me, it showed me a path to confront and deal with the root causes of it.  

[dolphin8808]

Totally anxiety kicking in for you. Typical heart pain is in the center of the chest, not to the left. Your heart is actually more so in the center of your chest with only the bottom portion falling slightly under the left side.  You did the right thing to get it checked because everyone is different but you have to remember that just sleeping funny will give you those pains as well. If you sleep with your arm in a funny position etc. I've had it between my sholder blades from how I was sleeping.

You trully are fine :)

[anxiety_freak92]

Had a mild panic attack NOT heart attack!!  Sorry for the mistake!