Wow this thread has really helped me today. I had a panic attack 5 weeks ago which set me off on a spiral downwards. I've got citalopram now and omeprazole but I'm pretty sure the acid reflux I thought I had is actually just terrible anxiety physical symptoms.
Anyway started off with a panic attack at dinner time and then all the Covid-19 stuff blew up and lockdown was announced a week later.
This landed me in bed, constantly feeling sick, chest tightness, muscle tension, left arm tingling, felt like my throat was closing, ear fullness, heart palpitations, heartburn, lightheadedness, terrible gas, I couldn't eat, I shook constantly, couldn't watch the news, even the word Corona would send me into a heap in bed. I had a panic attack at the same time every single night. It was absolutely horrible! It even made my period come a week early when it's usually precise.
I even purchased an oximeter and a blood pressure machine which was a bad idea because I obsess over them.
So since then I've had to call out paramedics because I thought I was having a heart attack, I had a few heart palpitations in a row and chest pain on left side and paniced. All tests fine and said panic attack.
Been to the hospital because I couldn't take it anymore, I honestly couldn't put up with these physical symptoms, my chest, shoulders and back (on left side) have been sooooooo stiff!! I honestly thought I had some kind of heart condition! Again all tests from there came back fine.
My left arm feels cold and tingly, left side of my throat feels weird/lumpy and scratchy, left ear fullness, left nostril fullness, I get headaches on the left side and worst of all the horrible left sided chest burning/cold feeling like minty chewing gum

My breasts also feel cold inside sometimes too.
I'm pretty sure I've just slept strangely due to muscle tension or pulled muscles around the chest/back area or they're just sore from being tense 24/7.
But obviously that's not a good enough explanation for me and because it's left sided it MUST be my heart even though all the tests came back fine!
I've also given up smoking and on day 28 now which probably hasn't helped with all these symptoms too.
Doc at hospital said it sounded like heartburn which made me feel like an idiot for going up there at a time like this for heartburn


I'm on day 2 of my Citalopram and day 4 of my omeprazole.
I can't wait to feel normal again, I'm so done with this! I'm constantly paranoid I've got Covid-19.
I obsess constantly over my breathing and pulse, sitting with my oximeter on my finger for hours some days and if the signal goes funny or I move and it reads low I freak out. I think one I day I took my blood pressure about 20 times.
Waiting for this Citalopram to kick in!





