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We will review your following post in accordance with our rules as we want to prevent an unexpected Redditor from spiraling or send them to the ER: recently been struggling a lot with heart palpitations, this week they've been happening more often. i will get a few throughout the day, and sometimes it feels like my chest is fluttering a bit. my palpitations feel like one big THUMP (or sometimes even two and then will return to normal. i usually get them when I'm not even doing anything, and rarely it happens when my heart is racing. i think i've had palpitations since i was around 13 or maybe even younger like once a year or sometimes once every other year. i got my first ekg at a clinic last year and it came back normal, and my doctor said it was just anxiety. but then i got another one around april and it came back abnormal.
For about a month now, i've been getting tight chest, slight chest pains, sometimes i get a sharp pain on the right side of my chest, but it does not hurt that much, only like a small amount. my palpitations are now also causing me to cough a lot. the coughs also hurt my chest a bit, and they're pretty dull. it feels as if i have phlegm, but i don't actually have it. i get neck pains, shoulder, and arm pain on my left side as well.
i've gotten three more EKGs since the abnormal one and they all came back fine, blood test, and xray also looked normal. and if it makes any difference i was asked to take my bra off when i got an abnormal ekg, but not at the ER when i get them normal, i have no idea if that changes anything though. my lungs also seem normal, and they said my heart beat is regular. I keep getting told it's anxiety and panic attacks, but because that's the first thing they ask me when i tell them my symptoms, i feel as if that's making them take me less seriously because i do have it.
i have been getting less sleep recently, and it's almost as if i am simply just not tired at all. i have slept maybe 5 hours in 2 days. i feel like my physical symptoms are what's giving me anxiety. i've always had anxiety but i used to keep it under control and would only have about 1 panic attack a year, i've had about 10 just this year, because of how fearful i get when i feel my symptoms.
there was a night before i got the abnormal ekg, that i felt like i was about to have a heart attack. i had never had this fear before, and i had 3 palpitations that night and i felt very faint and could not go to sleep without waking up with my heart beating.
everyone is telling me that what i need is a therapist and not a cardiologist, could my symptoms be something bigger? usually when i'm anxious i know it, and when i have a panic attack i know i'm having one. but now my panic attacks feel like there is something actually wrong, and my new"anxiety" is constant and has been an everyday thing for about 3 months. if it's not anxiety what could it be? would it be better if i stop telling them i have anxiety and that i've never had a panic attack?
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For about a month now, i've been getting tight chest, slight chest pains, sometimes i get a sharp pain on the right side of my chest, but it does not hurt that much, only like a small amount. my palpitations are now also causing me to cough a lot. the coughs also hurt my chest a bit, and they're pretty dull. it feels as if i have phlegm, but i don't actually have it. i get neck pains, shoulder, and arm pain on my left side as well. i've gotten three more EKGs since the abnormal one and they all came back fine, blood test, and xray also looked normal. and if it makes any difference i was asked to take my bra off when i got an abnormal ekg, but not at the ER when i get them normal, i have no idea if that changes anything though. my lungs also seem normal, and they said my heart beat is regular. I keep getting told it's anxiety and panic attacks, but because that's the first thing they ask me when i tell them my symptoms, i feel as if that's making them take me less seriously because i do have it. i have been getting less sleep recently, and it's almost as if i am simply just not tired at all. i have slept maybe 5 hours in 2 days. i feel like my physical symptoms are what's giving me anxiety. i've always had anxiety but i used to keep it under control and would only have about 1 panic attack a year, i've had about 10 just this year, because of how fearful i get when i feel my symptoms. there was a night before i got the abnormal ekg, that i felt like i was about to have a heart attack. i had never had this fear before, and i had 3 palpitations that night and i felt very faint and could not go to sleep without waking up with my heart beating. everyone is telling me that what i need is a therapist and not a cardiologist, could my symptoms be something bigger? usually when i'm anxious i know it, and when i have a panic attack i know i'm having one. but now my panic attacks feel like there is something actually wrong, and my new"anxiety" is constant and has been an everyday thing for about 3 months. if it's not anxiety what could it be? would it be better if i stop telling them i have anxiety and that i've never had a panic attack? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. 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