anxiety

[lilly31]

i live day by day with the need of reasurrance , i have suffered panic attacks for almost three years  now,  i get bad palpitations and my heart speeds up a little bit, i know is the anxiety but when i get this symptoms more than once a day or two or three days back to back i start thinking of a heart condition, i have had ekgs, holters, an echocardigram, stress test, ct scans of all kinds and all its negative. everything seems to be normal, except that i dont feel so normal. i recently started psychotherapy, i take lexapro and cardizem for my palpitations but dont think its working too good, just had a talk with my cardio doc to see if we change it! im changing lex to celexa in a few days. i just wish i could be my old self again, just for a little of history this started happening 7 months after my fathers  unexpected death.  

[AmorDeJay]

I too have had every test under the sun within the past 2 or 3 years and no matter what they tell me, I still worry uncontrollably.  My father also passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 45 in 1996.  I have had anxiety since I was a child but nothing compares to how I've been since losing my father and nothing nothing nothing compares to the last two or three months.  The palpitations for me started about five days ago and I've had them ever since.  They come on for no apparent reason, I'm just sitting at work or watching television.  Cardiologist did an EKG yesterday and listened and told me everything is fine and it's anxiety but unless you have anxiety as we do, people don't understand that what we are feeling is very real and VERY SCARY.  I'm sitting at my desk at work still horrified.  Starting a new med, Cymbalta, today.  Hope this one works.  Have been on both Lexapro and Effexor XR (at different times) in the past three months and none of them work.  Hopefully, this will be the one because I can't take this.  Well, have a wonderful day and look forward to speaking with you soon.

[sulmare]

sounds like you are still coping with the grief of losing your dad, which is hard enough in itself.

it is anxiety, nothing else and although the symptoms feel physical it's a case of your mind fooling your body I think.

I think we that suffer from anxiety are sensitive souls and pay too much attention to our inner thoughts, so try to distract yourself when you catch yourself dwelling on your anxious thoughts... sing a song or anything to make you change your learned behaviour