How do you guys feel about symptom shifting?

One website I had looked at said it's a positive thing because the prior symptom is losing it's power over you and trying to latch on with something new. The website also said it can be reassuring by showing that it really is just anxiety if the other symptom just goes away and suddenly at the same time a new one shows.

Well for me sometimes it's nice when the new symptom isn't so bad, but when a nastier type of thing replaces it it can also make me feel worse. So far in the past month and a half,which is how long I've been dealing with this, I have experienced in order: Chest pain + rapid heartbeat, chest tightness, weird sensation in arm, tingling fingers and toes, arm pain, inner thigh leg pain, shortness of breath and now I feel like I have something stuck in my throat.

Chest pain and the shortness of breath are the 2 worst things thus far for me. They both truly terrified me and I had a hard time accepting them as anxiety.

Right now the chest pain is back but to a lesser extent and seems to come and go also with this lump in my throat feeling. It's a relief because the feeling of not getting enough air was scaring me. It seems with each week it's something new. I can't wait until I can finally 100% accept that it's just anxiety and resolve it.

Hi Xxplosive,

You're not alone. Your symptoms sound somewhat like mine. And they've sort of shifted recently. A few months ago it was more heartburn/chest pain, some fatigue, a weird "jelly" feeling in my chest, and a feeling of shortness of breath even while resting. These days, there's less "jelly chest", though it's a lot more of the shortness of breath--sometimes with skipped heartbeats when it gets really bad, with a little heartburn (mild).

In my case, I've dealt with GERD issues before and have taken some recent medical tests to confirm that. Meanwhile I'm going to make other appointments (ENT doctor, maybe a cardiologist?) to rule things out. Ruled out my lungs after a pulmonologist's visit said I have good clear lungs and good lung function.

Maybe it really is just the anxiety, though I don't really feel too much of the pure anxiety feeling these days, unless my other symptoms get really bad, and then it works into a small mini panic attack type thing.

Ruhr