Hey everyone,
I guess I'm just posting because I'm kinda freaking out and I need to get this off my chest.
I've posted before about heart-related anxiety but to sum up, I'm 25 and I've been dealing with on and off chest pain, arm pain, sometimes shortness of breath and lightheadedness, and that kind of stuff for over a year (probably close to 2 at this point) and I had an echocardiogram and chest x-ray in October that was clear.
I've been doing a lot better recently, and I've been running a lot, which I was too anxious to do before. But the other day i started having some stabbing pain in my upper back (along with some tenderness along my spine). I thought this was probably due to poor posture while running, so I tried to improve my posture but it's still bothering me so I decided to take a few days off running. Today I went for a walk instead and I wasn't even very far and I got this sharp pain in the left side of my chest, right below my breast. It didn't go away until I got home and stopped walking. It felt a bit like a side stitch, but higher up and it was weird because I was just walking and I'm used to running faster and further. This sent my anxiety through the roof. Now I'm feeling convinced that my back pain and arm pain, which I was trying to tell myself was musculoskeletal, is actually heart-related.
I've had some variation of these symptoms for almost 2 years, so I'm trying really hard to convince myself that it must be normal bodily sensations mixed with anxiety, but I'm really struggling today. Also trying to convince myself that I wouldn't be able to run 5-7kms a day if I was having severe heart problems. Again, I'm finding it hard to convince myself today. I guess I just wanted a place to share how I'm feeling since I don't really talk about my anxiety with many people in my life.
Thank you for reading this and I hope you're all doing well.
I guess I'm just posting because I'm kinda freaking out and I need to get this off my chest.
I've posted before about heart-related anxiety but to sum up, I'm 25 and I've been dealing with on and off chest pain, arm pain, sometimes shortness of breath and lightheadedness, and that kind of stuff for over a year (probably close to 2 at this point) and I had an echocardiogram and chest x-ray in October that was clear.
I've been doing a lot better recently, and I've been running a lot, which I was too anxious to do before. But the other day i started having some stabbing pain in my upper back (along with some tenderness along my spine). I thought this was probably due to poor posture while running, so I tried to improve my posture but it's still bothering me so I decided to take a few days off running. Today I went for a walk instead and I wasn't even very far and I got this sharp pain in the left side of my chest, right below my breast. It didn't go away until I got home and stopped walking. It felt a bit like a side stitch, but higher up and it was weird because I was just walking and I'm used to running faster and further. This sent my anxiety through the roof. Now I'm feeling convinced that my back pain and arm pain, which I was trying to tell myself was musculoskeletal, is actually heart-related.
I've had some variation of these symptoms for almost 2 years, so I'm trying really hard to convince myself that it must be normal bodily sensations mixed with anxiety, but I'm really struggling today. Also trying to convince myself that I wouldn't be able to run 5-7kms a day if I was having severe heart problems. Again, I'm finding it hard to convince myself today. I guess I just wanted a place to share how I'm feeling since I don't really talk about my anxiety with many people in my life.
Thank you for reading this and I hope you're all doing well.
