Heart/Chest Problems

The panic attacks could be as a result of you worrying too much about this whole thing.. chest pains can be a result of the panic attacks.
It all seems related to me.. but if you're really still worried go back and ask to see another doctor. Get a second opinion.

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OP

I did. I went into a walk-in centre and I was told the same thing. I can't think what it is that is causing it but it's not worrying about the attacks themselves. I can't quite work it out.

Reply 3

If you’re thinking about it enough to post on here asking for advice.. then that seems to suggest you are in fact worried about it.
Panic attacks can be as a result of subconscious anxiety or worry.. that then creates physical symptoms.
Go to your GP instead of a walk in clinic and tell them what is happening (explain all the symptoms) they may want to do further tests just to make sure, and it could help to put your mind at rest.

Reply 4

OP

I've been to both and they've told me the same thing.

Reply 5

Renal

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Anonymous

I've been to both and they've told me the same thing.

Would you like a third opinion? Or a fourth?

If it would ease your mind, I know a moderately unscrupulous cardiologist who does some private work, you never know, he might find something wrong with you if you agree to stay on his private books for a few years of expensive treatment.

Reply 6

Anonymous

I've been to both and they've told me the same thing.

Does that not make you think that there may actually be nothing wrong?

I'm not disputing that the symptoms you are feeling are not real.. I'm sure they are.. and I know from personal experience how horrible and scary panic attacks can be. But all these symptoms that you now say you're having sound a lot like symptoms of anxiety.. and as a result panic attacks.

You can keep going back to doctor after doctor and getting the same answer.. but if its still really worrying you.. then maybe you need to go and get yourself a 3rd opinion.

Reply 7

OP

Thats what I intend to do but there is no way that this is just a case of panic & anxiety attacks.

Reply 8

Anonymous

Thats what I intend to do but there is no way that this is just a case of panic & anxiety attacks.

.. how so? I'm just going on what you have already told me..

Reply 9

OP

Well random excruciating chest pains and your heart going like a metronom on top spin aren't normal.

Reply 10

They are if you’re experiencing a panic attack..

Reply 11

OP

Yes but I don't experience panic attacks. I never have anything to panic about. There's nothing for me to panic about.

Reply 12

The thing is though, how can chest pains and panic attacks be attributed to a healthy heart/chest?

.. you said in your original post that you were experiencing panic attacks?

You can develop symptoms by thinking too much about something, you've clearly got it in to your head that there is something wrong with your heart, and no matter how many people tell you otherwise you are just not prepared to listen?

Like I said get a third opinion, get a forth if you like.. but you need to think how many its going to take before you start believing that there may actually be nothing wrong with you.

Reply 13

OP

What I mean is that I'm getting panic attacks when I have nothing to panic about. I haven't clearly got it in to my head that there is something wrong with my heart as you so bluntly put it. I don't think about it until it happens and for the life of me I can't work out why its happening.

Reply 14

Panic attacks can sometimes come from subconscious thought, there could be something bothering you that you are not always aware of.. or choose not to be aware of.

If you really think that these are not panic attacks, then as I keep saying go and get yourself another opinion. I am not a doctor so I can only give you my own opinion, based on my own experience and thoughts.

Reply 15

OP

sparkly_woo

Panic attacks can sometimes come from subconscious thought, there could be something bothering you that you are not always aware of.. or choose not to be aware of.

There's not a thing that is bothering me which makes it all the more stranger. I'm going to get a third opinion tonight and see what happens from there.

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