Chest tightness

Hello all, I am new here.

I was having chest pain and chest tightness about 3 months ago and I went to the ER and had an EKG done and they told me it is not heart disease. The diagnosis they gave me was either GERD or I had some rib inflammation, which I don't believe it is because the tightness is in the centre of my chest.

I also have a history of generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety and OCD.


To get back to my ER visit. Once the doctor told me that it wasn't my heart the tightness and pain went away within in a few days. Plus I did take ranitidine for 3 or 4 days and that could have helped with it too.

It is now 3 months later and I am getting the same tightness and pain that I had again, so I have started the ranitidine again and hope that will help. But I did see somewhere about someone having a heart attack and I think that is when I have been having the chest tightness and pain again.

The tightness and chest pain has been affecting me for 4 days straight now. I would just like some advice, or people who have the same symptoms.


Thank you all

I been getting the exact symptoms, i also have anxiety, panic attacks, and they are telling me gerd, I had a squeezing like feeling in my upper abdomen for about 2 weeks, chest tightness and pressure, dizzy/light headedness, left arm pain and numbness, The doc told me it is from anxiety and gerd, I been to the E.R about 17 times since september, this is really scary i know what your going through, I have to get a stress test tomorrow, i had ekgs they came back normal, 1st one was abnormal but they told me because i was in the middle of a panic attack, I also get bad achy leg pain, pressure in the back of my head, they gave me nexium but i haven't taken it yet, I hope you feel better, and hopefully what we got is just gerd and anxiety.