Chest tightness from anxiety or corona??

[Larii]

I've been staying at home until a few days ago when I went out to get a flu shot. The store I went to (because I was going to the nurse office there) was pretty empty and i wore a mask. I've been feeling fine since then but today i woke up with my chest feeling a little tight. It sort of feels like a weight on my chest and I can't inhale fully. Of course my mind is jumping to corona. I have had issues in the past with breathing during periods of anxiety, and I did wake up today feeling panicked and that awful fight or flight feeling. I'm still scared though

 

[Cuchculan]

Honestly, I think if any of us feel any sort of odd way, we think ' virus '. Simply because we know it is out there. You are feeling as you do when your anxiety is high. But you mind is fully aware to what is going on with this virus. So it is jumping to conclusions.

 

[SelfReflective]

I've been staying at home until a few days ago when I went out to get a flu shot. The store I went to (because I was going to the nurse office there) was pretty empty and i wore a mask. I've been feeling fine since then but today i woke up with my chest feeling a little tight. It sort of feels like a weight on my chest and I can't inhale fully. Of course my mind is jumping to corona. I have had issues in the past with breathing during periods of anxiety, and I did wake up today feeling panicked and that awful fight or flight feeling. I'm still scared though

I have the same simptom, never had it before..I was sure it was corona also, because it just kept persisting day after day..I became very worried, did a chest X-ray and blood work, everything came back normal. I feel it still, though, but it's getting better. What really helped me is reading and listening to other anxious people's experiences and realizing how similar they are to mine!

Check your temperature, I don't think anxiety can give you a fever, I don't think. And if you start coughing like crazy, then do look into it..But this shortness of breath, tight chest, tingles, I've never had this symptoms before to this extent, but everything points to it being down to overwhelming anxiety and worry.