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Something else: Awful tingly feeling in heart area
« on: March 05, 2013, 03:56:50 PM »
For three years now I have been dealing with a really uncomfortable tingling/tickling sensation in my heart area that comes and goes. Because I have a number of other chronic symptoms, this hasn't been at the top of my worry list. I've mentioned it as part of other appointments, but that's about it. It's really hard for me to even explain, so that makes it challenging to pursue. It's really strong today, though, so it's quite upsetting.

As best as I can explain this symptom, it is a very uncomfortable sensation deep behind my left breast, and it does seem to radiate beyond that area too, like around my shoulder and armpit. It's almost like I'm being tickled with a feather in there and it's irritating a nerve---that's really the only way I can think to describe it, although even that doesn't capture it. It is especially upsetting because it is in the heart area. I do see a cardiologist once a year for regular follow up regarding palps, and I've mentioned it before, but it is such a vague / hard-to-describe complaint that it hasn't raised her concern. I have my annual appointment in a couple weeks, so I will mention it again.

Today I've began speculating that I could have a lack of oxygen to my heart causing this feeling. If you have read my posts lately, I have enough health stuff on my mind that I don't need to add this to the mix. But it is such a scary feeling, even though it is not painful. I am trying to be calm about it and just keep in mind that I can bring it up again at my upcoming appointment. I hope I am wrong thinking it could be heart-related. I just don't know what to make of it.
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Re: Something else: Awful tingly feeling in heart area
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2013, 04:28:04 PM »
my 2 cents is this:

What I"ve learned about health anxiety and symptoms of anything freakishly scary is that anything that is prefaced by: it is really hard to explain..... or it is so vague....  usually means it is not something dire.  Major symptoms that are part of illnesses/disorders/cancers/organs are not hard to explain.  docs know the ways diseases x, y, & z manifest/present themselves.  being your cardio isn't concerned should be a red flag to you that you shouldn't be either.  I would venture that since you are posting on an anxiety page, you, deep down, know this isn't something dire or really anything to get too worked up over.

of course that is my 2 cents....

what do you do for your anxious over thinking?  what is working? what isn't?  what are you willing to do?
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MOST anxiety happens at the subconscious level.  JUST because you don't feel consciously anxious or had a day or two of calm doesn't mean your mind & body are relaxed.  It can take months of reduced anxiety before a body goes back to a more non-reactive state. 

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