hi rebem 86

I experience pain in my chest everyday when doing some exercise or activity. My heart does all kind of tricks with me. I have palpitations that feel like spasms contractions that are electrical and painful. its like my heart really stops and I often think that something kicks in to activate it again. thats how scary it feels.
I have light dizzyness. Burping, skin burning, stomach problems, acid reflux, feelings of fainting, or heavy body, tachycardia attacks out of nowhere. And i´m over 40, so I could well be in risk.
still no one seems to think or even doubt for a second there is something genuine wrong with me. Its brushed away as anxiety or simply a very sensitive nerve system accompanied with GERD.

I´ven been in hospitals and so on.
Sent to hospitals.
They always look at me, what the hack is going on, but never find anything really wrong besides some minor deviations or problems which couldnt really explain the intensity of my sensations.

Sometimes I have really some good days , at least thats how I call them, I can climb the stairs at home twenty times a day without a problem and than suddenly while taking a bath, my heart can play all kind of tricks when i´m reading a book and really relax . the painful spasms come up with a vengeance, and so on. and believe me i am totally relaxed at that moment !! So I really dont understand the anxiety monster..
than coming out of bath and try to climb the same stair one more time is hell. My heart goes haywire than, and the pain on my chest is back with a vengeance.

People call this anxiety.
I dont know what it is. Anxiety or fra frippo lippi disease, I wish I never had it.  

hang in there

p.s  oh and what I learned is the more you ask for explanation or why you have this, the anxiety word will be the only one you get.
Most doctors and people are still from the time that when your doc told you its ok, that it is ok. Internet and google is a crime for us and doctors cause now people tend to look and think for themselves and offcourse we dont always think the right way. we lack the experience of a doc offcourse. But on the other hand due to all media and social media you now know much more whats going on and whats going wrong . So mistakes and misdiagnosis is there for you to find on the internet and media, so yep, its much more difficult to ease some peoples mind

Well how much do you strive to achieve a 3.9 GPA and seek to establish and academic record requisite for multiple honor societies all while maintaining a part-time job with the company that is anticipating hiring you in a full time position once you've completed your degree?

The challenges of academia and discipline to seek and maintain highest of standards is driven by the need to succeed. High achievers are most often driven to succeed by the inability to fail, if you see my point.

You are asserting that the somatic features, or physical symptoms, of anxiety that you are experiencing simply materialized in your instance and entirely contradict any predisposing factors. The factors which drive people to achieve are variable in context and they don't necessarily fit neatly into the canned list of common precursors to the type of anxiety which invokes somatic features. If the physical features of anxiety are present, then anxiety exists and it can appear more purely as tension, stress, apprehension or any combination.

If you're suggesting that the achievements you've listed generated none of the factors mentioned above, then the problem is not the origin of your symptoms but rather an inability to recognize or acknowledge it.

All of the symptoms you mention are well within the classical textbook somatic features or anxiety. I see nothing to indicate a pattern suggestive of anything more.

Good luck with the remainder of your school endeavors and I'm sure that the dedication you've given toward your achievements will bring you continued success.

Best regards,

Rutheford Rane, MD (ret.)

Okay, I thought I was starting to manage my stress and anxiety better until yesterday. I went on the treadmill and set the speed to 3.5MPH I was soon out of breath and became a nervous wreck. Would someone kindly re-assure me I am fine? The panic proceeded the rest of yesterday where I had a tight chest and left shoulder blade pain. It has mostly subsided this morning, but I feel like I have regressed back to square one. I still have pressure under the sternum. I am now scared to exercise and I recognize how bad that is but am struggling on what to do.

RLR,

Thank you for your reassurance! That was a scary experience.

I thought I would take time to post because I just had another shortness of breath episode, this time after eating. The shortness of breath feeling feels like it originates in my stomach and then continues up the center of my chest. It is a strange sensation, I am not gasping for breath it just feels off when I breathe. I took some Gaviscon which helped relieve some pressure. I scheduled an appointment with a GI doctor because I am beginning to wonder if my anxiety is causing  GI issues or GI issues are causing the anxiety. This whole cycle began when I woke up in the middle of the night in September to which I thought I was having a heart attack.

What I am nervous about is I am chasing a problem that doesn't exist outside anxiety. However the pain is real and constant and I feel like this is the right move. I know either way I am pursuing treatment for anxiety, because it is extremely apparent that I am dealing with anxiety, but I want to rule out that the pain I am feeling is not being caused by something else.

Okay, your symptoms are the consequence of panic threshold events, or panic attacks as they are more commonly termed. It's very important for you to understand that significant anxiety can readily induce sometimes dramatic physiological response.

You are fixated on the premise that something is seriously wrong with you and it's not the case.

You're going to be just fine and you need to relax from the standpoint that something is lurking. You also need to perform some introspection to determine the actual underlying cause for thought processes which are ultimately producing the panic events. In other words, there are life circumstances which have induced irrational perceptions that are driving the panic disorder to manifest.

Lastly, always remember that the physiological events associated with panic threshold events is all that is ever going to happen. In other words, it's not a prelude to something worse.

Best regards,

Rutheford Rane, MD (ret.)

i had a question for the User RLR YaBB Administrator, I am 37 have played basketball all my life but around 20 years old started having panic and anxiety been on every type of med finally at 27 Zoloft helped for a year then my mother was suddenly killed in a car accident i started to dred having the panic and anxiety come back and sure enough they did but not like to use too and all the meds i took before no gel then i moved and am a single father now and at the age of 33 my body changed it took 6 months to find out i had Reactive Hypoglycaemia then i started gaining weight bad i went from 220 to 306 fast they said to change diet and exercise and wasn't doing so great one night 3 years ago at age of 34 i was talking on line and i went to the kitchen and grabbed a piece of bread and warmed it up and stuffed it in my mouth by the time i swallowed i realized it was scolding hot so what did i do drank some ice cold water and with in a few seconds i felt a flutter in my chest my heart started to race i started to panic even more with anxiety i then called an ambulance that brought me to the ER they ask me a whole bunch of questions like did you do any kind of drugs and etc.. which of course i don't especially with panic and anxiety god no, lol anyway the gave me medicine that didn't work then they cardio converse me and i was fine back to normal well back to life with my regular panic and anxiety trying to loose weight and forgot to mention 7 years ago when i was at 210 i formed sleep apnea so i had that too only got worser as the weight crept on finally i was given a choice to have RNY gastric bypass and i did last year a week after my birthday March 29 was my surgery date now the night of my surgery my heart was having PVCs all over the place and i thought i was in AFIB again
but i was just having a bunch of PVCs they ran tests and said everything was fine and to still go to surgery was i ever scared lol so i got to the hospital and they still preformed the surgery even knowing about the night before , so months passed i started to lose a lot of weight , come to find out i had a stricture which they fixed and low Potassium which replenished since then all labs have been good and vitamins are well maintained B-12 and Vitamin D and Etc.. then i started feeling PVC's again
and 5 months ago and they gradually started to come on more frequent until i went to my family physician who sent be back to the heart specialist
who did a echocardiogram and and said my heart is healthy i continue to get the PVC's and they also did a holter monitor for 24 hrs and said i had  a episode of PVc' and Pacs but it was benign then a week went by and on the 29 th of december i woke up to my daughter wanting breakfast i felt funny and a little weak i went to the hospital and they said i was having Afib and they gave me medicine which didn't work so the cardio coverted me and back to normal i asked my doctor with the bypass if it could be due to the RNY he very unlikely but it could be stress your body went through a major life altering change it will last 2 years before your body levels out . My family physicians office told me the same but just to make sure they are sending back to the heart doctor to do a another echocardiogram and another doppler to compare and asset also i am getting blood work drawn my appointment is january 21 and then i see the doctor in February 27 my question is could stress cause my PVC's and PAC's and in-turn cause an episode of A-fib ? if there is not heart disease like they keep telling me and there is no link between the RNY besides the stress factor could all this happen from just STRESS ? Please help  thank you Craig Clarkson