anxiety and chest pain every day

hi everyone , since the beginning of his crapty year i started to have some breathing problems along with discomfort on the left side of my lower ribs right where my stomach begins , i went to visit a doctor he told i'm fine i just have IBS , gave me some sedative don't remember its name took it for a week then my breathing problems was solved and the discomfort didn't really bother me that much back then so i stopped taking the medcine

then 2 months later my mom got so sick and i had to deal with so much crap everyday , the breathing problems started to arise again along with fast heart rate and some chest pain on the left side comes and goes , i went to Er once made ECG and nothing was wrong , i made an appointment with cardiologist he asked for Echo so i did , the results came back normal , he told me it nothing and i should get it out of my head ,then i started to feel like there is something stuck under my left ribs i thought it might be digestive related problem so i went to another doctor specialist he too asked for echo and thyroid gland blood tests , and so i did and again everything was normal , he told me it could be stomach refluxes prescribed me some medicine , didn't solve the problem , this discomfort became pain that never goes way , so i went to another cardiologist he asked me to make a chest x-ray i showed him the x-ray ,echo , blood cbc and thyroid blood work ,he said everything is normal , and asked me about the breathing problems and it turn out these was panic attacks cause i used to feel numbness all over my body and it happened when i was in crowded places specially at night , he told me all this is due anxiety prescribed me some anti-depressions , they made me feel a bit better and stopped my panic attacks completely but the pain was still there , so i went to another cardiologist he told me the same thing and made some extra check with ultrasound he told me my organs are really very good specially my liver and told me to stay on the medications the other doctor prescribed me

i noticed that the only thing ease the pain and in many cases eliminates it is Xanax , so i made another appointment with the cardiologist (the one told me its anxiety neurosis) and told him about this he told me xanax lasts for few hours and its not what i need

now its been 3 months or even more i wake up everyday with this pain and lasts till i sleep , its consuming my thoughts i cant do anything nothing makes me feel better except for Xanax ,and some times Xanax dose not help at all , i always have fast heart rate . when i wake up it 60 ~ 68 , but after an hour or too its 72 ~ 85 , sometimes at the late night its 82~90 ,i cant sleep well i cant eat well i lost 15 kg i'm always in a very bad mood angry all the time and i don't know what else to do , even all the doctors told me its not heart related issue i'm still scared it could be my heart i feel so bad and sad and i don't understand why its happening to me
all i just want that pain to leave me alone , or at least comes and goes , sometimes when i press on my ribs i feel it there ,its not deep its right under the ribs and its horizontal

The IBS the doctors say you have could be just that! Do you have acid reflux also? I have All those problems and having that pain is the worst. Constant...., nausea too? I have to go on Metamucil at times. I also have my head elevated when I sleep. U get use to it with enough pillows around U. The Prilosec, Zantac, Aciphex and all the others don't work if U sleep laying flat all night. Buns U all night long.. Even less acidic acid from meds are still acids.. U may have a bigger problem they haven't found. But, you can only fix what you know is not working right! I wish you better days ahead! Say no to ribbon poo!

Adeel, I know you are scared but I want you to really pay attention to what I am saying. I am a 71 year
old man who has had heart problems since I was 35 years old. The pain you are having is not even
remotely related to your heart, One more time, it's not even close. It's very likely a problem with your
colon caused by your anxiety, I have the same thing, stay away from anything that causes gas, if you get
gas take something with simethicone in it, I also use prilosec over the counter, it really does work but you
have to take it every morning first thing on an empty stomach. You can ask anyone on this forum I will
not lie to you, Peace.

Larry ***

Hi Adeel1, I'm really sorry that you can't afford to see a professional.

Xanax is a drug that can be used to treat anxiety, so when you take it, it probably makes you feel less anxious and thus decreases your pain.

It's the kind of pain I get when I'm anxious. And since the doctors have checked you out thoroughly and found nothing physically wrong, it's fairly safe to say it is from anxiety.

I think maybe you originally get anxious about something - then you get the pain - then you become anxious because you're concerned about the pain - then you are in more pain because you're even more anxious by now - then you are constantly anxious about this pain that just seems to be getting worse and worse. That's what happened to me at first. Is this what's going on?

Adeel1, I wish I could tell you that I found a way to stop worrying about my larger health issues (which are definitely there, with the possibilities of me having celiac disease or irritable bowel disease or any number of autoimmune diseases), but I have only been able to reduce my concern by following the advice I give in the above 2 posts.

With my pain, I have learned that I can still do certain things without it actually increasing my pain. Some things I can't do anymore, but I'm at peace with that because I can still do essential and fulfilling things. I figured out my priorities - what are the most important things to me in life? Those things are what I will work through the pain to do first.

Sometimes I have "why me?" moments and sometimes I feel like it's unfair that I'm so sick so young. But most of the time I try to remember that God must think I am strong enough to be positive throughout all my health problems and that I will be healthier later on because this is forcing me to take really good care of my health from a young age.

I wish I knew all of life's answers but I don't because I'm only 18.

thanks for giving me a relief , that's what i thought i mean it cant be 24 hours a day for 3 months and its heart related pain , the problem is its kinda hard to locate where is the pain coming from , its like a layer right beneath my ribs on the left side down my heart it's not deep at all , it starts at the underline of my left breast sometimes i feel its my chest wall or Diaphragm ,but breathing or eating has not effect on the pain and doctors confirmed to me its neither and it feels like something pinching , when i drink cold water i feel the water going through my Esophagus and down to my stomach the pain feels like its wrapping my stomach from the outside and between my ribs and stomach (the upper part of my stomach) , it increases when i sit or lay ,decreases or disappears when i walk or playing a videogame or anything requires my full attention

i dont have reflux and i wonder if colon could cause a pain for such a long time ,already made some stool analyst for hidden blood to see if i have something wrong with my colon but it was negative

for the past 2 days i was able to make some progress with the pain i took my mind off of it ,so id didnt start right after waking up and wasnt that painful ,but today it was there and had some chest numbness along with it for a few mins then the numbness was gone

its preventing me from doing lots of things ,i have some work to do from home ,programming stuff , and i just cant concentrate for more than 5 mins , i just wanna get rid of it for some days respectively that would help me alot to stop thinking about it so much it would be like headaches or any aches i have

the pain is very confusing ,and i don't know why its better with xanax ,sadly i have tolerance to xanax now its not working like it used to and i wont increase the dose i will stop it for a week or so
if its not anxiety related i think it would be some kind of inflammation or an Abscess under my ribs ,but again its very confusing it would have been shown on the x-ray or the ultra sound check wouldn't it?