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MrsJ
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Hi all,
I’ve suffered from health anxiety since a choking incident with my son around 4 years ago but over the last few weeks I’ve been experiencing panic attacks.
The first one came from nowhere and I didn’t put it down to a panic attack at first as I’d never experienced one before, I genuinely thought I was going to collapse and die. Since then I’ve had 2 more severe ones and two minor episodes where I’ve felt like I need to catch my breath momentarily then my heart goes crazy for around 10 seconds and my arms tingle and then I go back to normal again.
The more severe panic attacks I feel ‘off’ for a little while before and then when it hits I feel like I can’t get enough air into my lungs and my heart rate is really fast for around 10-15mins and I am convinced that I’m going to have a heart attack or drop dead, it’s horrendous. I get tingly arms and I’ve also been experiencing an ache around my heart which is really unpleasant and worrying.
Due to my history with health anxiety these attacks are impacting my life massively as the anxious part of me is convinced I have a heart problem and it’s not a panic attack. After the first attack I was taken to A&E as my heart rate wouldn’t slow down and my left arm went numb, they did bloods and an ECG, all of which came back perfectly normal but the doubt is eating away at me.
Does anyone else experiencing similar symptoms and feelings to what I’m experiencing, especially the ache around the heart
I’ve suffered from health anxiety since a choking incident with my son around 4 years ago but over the last few weeks I’ve been experiencing panic attacks.
The first one came from nowhere and I didn’t put it down to a panic attack at first as I’d never experienced one before, I genuinely thought I was going to collapse and die. Since then I’ve had 2 more severe ones and two minor episodes where I’ve felt like I need to catch my breath momentarily then my heart goes crazy for around 10 seconds and my arms tingle and then I go back to normal again.
The more severe panic attacks I feel ‘off’ for a little while before and then when it hits I feel like I can’t get enough air into my lungs and my heart rate is really fast for around 10-15mins and I am convinced that I’m going to have a heart attack or drop dead, it’s horrendous. I get tingly arms and I’ve also been experiencing an ache around my heart which is really unpleasant and worrying.
Due to my history with health anxiety these attacks are impacting my life massively as the anxious part of me is convinced I have a heart problem and it’s not a panic attack. After the first attack I was taken to A&E as my heart rate wouldn’t slow down and my left arm went numb, they did bloods and an ECG, all of which came back perfectly normal but the doubt is eating away at me.
Does anyone else experiencing similar symptoms and feelings to what I’m experiencing, especially the ache around the heart