Panic Attack - Now Headaches

Hi - I'm completely new here, and to be honest.....very scared

I don't consider myself a hypochondriac but here's my situation (and any help is greatly appreciated!)

I'm a 27 year old healthy guy. This past Sunday I was working at my side job as a waiter. I started to feel a little "out of it", and light-headed.....I took the train back to NYC where I live, and as I pulled into Penn Station I thought I was having a heart attack. My heart was beating tremendously fast, I couldn't catch my breath at all. I went to the police station in Penn and let them know I needed an ambulance. I thought I was having a heart attack. It was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me.

The EMT's came, and took me to the hospital where they gave me oxygen and my heart beat slowly decreased. In the hospital they told me it could have been a panic attack (but I haven't been worried/anxious about anything in my life lately). They took a chest x-ray which came back fine. The next day, ironically I had a physical scheduled with my doctor (who is also a cardiologist). He took a cardiogram/EKG/stress tests....all of which came back fine (still waiting on the bloodwork). He even gave me a portable EKG thingy to wear for 24 hours to record my heartbeat.

Now it's Thurs. and the past 2 days, my breathing has been better, but at night when I go to sleep my chest feels heavy, and I have been getting headaches that feel like my head is in a vice coupled with a pulsating feeling on both temples. I am nervous that the headache could be something worse....like an aneurysm or a hemorrhage.

I don't smoke...I drink socially, and over this past weekend I was out pretty late, at a concert, and did smoke a little marijuana (I'm not a habitual user...it's in rare instances).

Please....can anybody help me with suggestions......why is my head feeling like that? Is it tension/stress or should I go back to the hospital? My chest....all tests are coming back fine...so what could that be?

Thanks so much CLN777

I have def. stopped drinking. I only did socially anyway (27 - single in NYC, but with a good profession).....I am now getting concerned about these headaches. I don't like to work myself up, but I look at symptoms, and they seem synonymous with tension headaches, but also with symptoms of a brain aneurysm.

Hi Brappy and welcome! Sorry to hear that you are having a tough time at the moment. I know what it feels like to be worried that there is something seriously wrong with your body. I suffered panic attacks for a long time, and have struggled with health anxiety as well.
We are not doctors, and could not dx you, you will have to get the final word from your doctor, and your test results...but it does sound like anxiety, with tension headaches. Try to resist the temptation to symptom search on the internet! This only leads to more anxiety. Many of us have suffered chronic headaches, which result from stress, tense muscles, ect.
Try to do some muscle relaxation, and breathing exercises until you hear from your doctor to help keep you calm. I will post a couple of sites at the bottom of the page for you to try.
I am glad that you found us, you will find that this is a great place, full of awesome people who are here to understand and help!
Take care and let us know how things turn out with your results soon,
Scaredy Cat

www.stress-relief-exercises.com/

www.healthyplace.com/anxiety-panic/anxiety-self-help/br...

www.psybersquare.com/anxiety/panic_relax_I

Oh, dear... Don't google! I had to learn that the hard way after I convinced myself on multiple occasions that I had cancer or was pregnant. Never google. Almost every medical problem shares several symptoms. I was convinced I was pregnant because I was going to the washroom like, every hour. It was a bladder infection. It's so easy to get worked up over "symptoms" but try to fight the urge to look them up :)

Just a Girl...thanks for that. I'm actually going to go back to LI tonight and stay at my parents for the evening....another low-key, mellow night.....hoping that tomorrow I finally start to feel close to 100%

Thanks!