Is it really anxiety causing it???

[Whimsyone]

I have these strange feelings concerning my heart. Like it feels light and funny and its not that it really hurts but it uncomfortable, I guess is how to explain it and I pull into myself as if someone hit me.
People have told me its common for people with anxiety but we recently found out I had anxiety because I've had attacks since I was in elementary but we never knew what it was. They all thought it was me over-reacting. Ha.
But I'm concerned over this feeling because I had an attack a few days ago and It was the worst I had since I've been on the meRAB and my heart felt weird so it was sort of crawing at it. It wasn't too bad. I felt some marks but they faded later that day. I'm worried that another attack could trigger me to do that again but worse.
That's what makes me wonder if this is really just my anxiety or if its a prorablem and my anxiety is making it worse.

Share your stories?

 

[Lourage]

Put it this way. EVERY disease/sickness i ever had was anxiety related. Even when i KNEW i felt pain in certain areas. I thought i had an enlarged heart and would wake up with pains in my heart, went toa cardiologist, test after test everything was fine. Time i went to the hospital thinking i had an aneurysm in my brain...nothing. Time i thought i couldn't breathe nothing. Just recently i thought i had a ulcer and or hernia, went to get an abdominal ultrasound.. nothing. Oh they did find a tiny polyp in my gallbladder though and need to get it checked in 3 months to make sure it doesn't get bigger, but that wasn't causing the pain

Now i'm at the point where i will feel like an idiot if i think i have something wrong and go to the hospital or something to get it checked out, cause it always turns out to be nothing.

Whats funny is all the heart palpitations, pains i feel for days.. all seem to magically disappear after i get a clean bill of health lol, well thats until i read about the next "disease" i have on the internet

 

[Lourage]

Whats funny is up until recenlty doctors would give me medications to treat things thinking my anxiety is a secondary disease from soemthing else.

Like right now i'm waiting on 24/hour urine/blood test results for Pheocromacytoma. Look it up, it has the SamE SYMPTOMS AS PEOPLE WITH anxiety. A urine analysis i took a while back came back with high metapherines. So i finanly went to a nephrologist last week. I told him i have social anxiety and how the BP spikes happen in anxious situations, but of course no doctor listens to me until after 20 tests are done to tell me i have what i already know i have. Thing is though, high metapherines can also happen at times of stress ( anxiety!) so of course when i took that urine test at the lab months ago i was crazy nervous, and my body was in fight or flight mode. So this doc thinks i have this adrenal gland tumor problem. yea right.. so i have had it all my life then and my heart is fine as is my kidneys and other organs? and it's not anxiety lol. I would be dead by now.

Sooo now i wait a month ( so my BP can go up as well as stress) while waiting to get the results. Another thing is i'm put on all these medications to trate everything EXCEPT anxiety disorder, meRAB for high blood pressure, when if i got the anxiety treated, those secondary symptoms will vanish. But instead i'm on a beta blocker that doesn't even control mt blood pressure. it does keep my heart rate down though. But doctors will prescribe you everything BUT anxiety medications it seems, until you have 50 million tests done first.

I actually just recently got a script for effexor xr. But i'm waiting until after i get my results back, cause i want to make sure i don't go on it for nothing and find out i DO have that adrenal gland problem. I tried two SSRi's years ago and they did nothing.