I miss you guys!!! Need some of your comforting words.

[MistaVega]

Man can't believe I haven't posted here in awhile. This place and its wonderful members were solely responsible for returning me back to normal.This place worked better for me than those pseudo-psychologist. I really appreciate this community. Thank you all for taking the time out to respond to my mental riots throughout the past and certainly in the future.  We all need help with our anxiety every once in awhile, even the veterans.

At any rate a new "life threatening" issue(don't they always seem to be life threatening) has come up and has giving me another anxiety relapse.

Couple of weeks ago I was lien in bed, dosing off when I felt a very baby sensation in my chest. Somehow I knew this was going to make my heart start racing. Sure enough it did, my heart starts beating faster and faster and it was as if someone shot me with a dose of adrenaline all of a sudden. Like all panic attacks I was convince that this was something serious, because of the previous day I got these weird heart flutters. So In my mind I was convinced I was gonna die. I'm pacing back in forth in my damned bathroom, I can't get my heart to stop beating so quickly, I just feel like I have to get rid of this feeling but I can't. I kept thinking my heart was just going to take off beating faster and faster till I collapse on the floor and die. I want it to stop so bad. So I tryed to just calmn down, take deep breaths, ignore the sensations were it feels i have to sprint 100 yards and get away from my own self.

Eventually my heart slowed down to a decent pulse. I feel kinda back to normal, but what's not normal is my anxiety levels. I keep thinking that weird racing heart beat sensation is going to come back. I feel so much on the edge. I'm thinking to myself I only have a short while to live and I have a underlying heart condition.

I'm worried, like all people are that this could be a sign of something serious and not just panic attacks. Because out of know where I get a hear flutter, than bam palpitations, racing heart and I wont even be anxious! I'm going to make an appointment with the doc and get checked out, but my anxious mind is constantly worried if, WHAT IF THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING PROBLEM AND YOU ONLY HAV A SHORT WHILE TO LIVE.

Bahh, give me some words of comfort please I need it.

[markidee]

Hi again. I just wanted to reassure you that this is a very, very common symptom of panic. this is where it all started for me, and it's where my mind goes from time to time.

Especially if you're waking up--this is a sign that your organism is trying to find a solution to terrible excess cortisol/adrenaline.

We all go back to square one, dust ourselves off, (get the DRs opinion if we need to), then march forth.

One day at a time,
--m

[GreenThumb]

I think the most terrifying anxiety symptoms are the ones that come OUT OF NOWHERE - you don't feel particularly anxious, and you can't link an attack to an event or feeling of anxiousness. Those are the attacks that set me back, big time. Because our brains want to be logical and connect the bad event to a cause, it's terrifying when we can't seem to FIND a cause. So that's when we start getting illogical, like "I have heart failure, heart disease, heart attack, etc.".

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that no matter how calm I feel and no matter how long I've been feeling calm, there are always anxiety symptoms that seem to bleed through. I think it's going to be like that the rest of my life.

Rest assured (once you have seen your doctor), YOU ARE FINE! I have had palpitations and racing hearts out of nowhere - they've happened plenty of times before. Take heart in the fact that you're doing the right thing - you're seeing your doctor and you're reaching out to people who understand - us! 

[Chronic_Perfectionist]

I have had the same thing happen to me. During this past summer, I had multiple nights in which my heart was not only racing, it was down right sore. I thought I was dieing on the spot. I continued to have these heart issues for months.

I blamed the heart issues on all types of things: heart disease, cancer, etc. However, I think....looking back....that this was all just anxiety. I think this is your body's way of telling you to control your anxiety. Anxiety is something that affects our mind, but the problem is often revealed to us via our body. The body gets headaches, heart pains, etc to tells us that our mind....our thinking...is actually what is sick and needs fixing. When your anxious thinking is under control....the physical symptoms often go away too.

[MistaVega]

Bahhhhh, can't see the doc till Tuesday. I'm so tempted to visit doctor google for a check up! LOL, but as many of you know, that will make the situation 10x worse.

I was wondering if anyone has heart flutters followed by a rapid heart beat and then followed by EXTREME ANXIETY.

I feel like there's seriously something wrong with my heart. I've been walking on eggshells all day long. I feel like so much on the freakin edge. tis sucks.

[GreenThumb]

I've definitely had many a flutter, rapid heart beat, and an extreme spike in anxiety - in that order. That's usually the way it goes for me. I really do think it's just your anxiety kicking in again. If there was something wrong with your heart it wouldn't just be random and on-and-off like this, it would be a continual pattern (at least I think). And it wouldn't be so closely followed by a high spike in anxiety - that's your dead giveaway right there.

You can make it til Tuesday!!!