Anxiety or Real Pain?

1/10/2015 First chest pain. It was light. I have never had chest pain before in my life. I'm 35 years old and I'm a little overweight. I weigh 268 and I'm 5'11 1/2". The pain went on for 10 days. Each day progressing to include my shoulder, jaw, left arm, etc. all the classic heart attach symptoms. After 4 days of this I went to a local medical clinic. EKG done--normal. Chest xrays done--normal. Was told probably muscular. I was prescribed mobic. I went to the cardiologist the following week on 1/20/15. Had another ekg (normal) and a stress test (normal) at the cardiologist. He thought it was probably my GERD. At this point an entire month passed and I had no chest pain.

2/21/2015 Chest pain reoccurs. Each day progressing like before to include shoulder, jaw, left arm, etc. The problem is I have had constant steady chest pain since. By 2/27/15 it seemed to be below my heart like the bottom left of my rib cage. 3/9/2015 I went back to the cardiologist. He said this was not cardiac pain. He said cardiac pain does not remain constant like this. I had a nuclear stress test, cardiac ct, echocardiogram....all normal. 3/20/15 still having constant steady chest pain. Had a ct scan of my chest with contrast...normal. On 4/8/2015 I had an upper endoscopy. A small hernia was found, but Doc said should not be causing the chest pain because of its size.

I am very frustrated. Basically my upper body chest on both sides, shoulders, sometimes neck are in pain. A couple of weeks ago I had a tearing sensation just below the collar bone on my left side. I then had a heat rush and broke out into a sweat. I am sure that was an anxiety attack. This week I've had that tearing sensation again up near my collar bone. It's scary. I am taking Lexapro 20mg every morning and taking 0.5mg Xanax at night so I can get a good night's sleep.

Could this all be anxiety or is there something underlying that could be causing this? It doesn't make sense that initially this only lasted 10 days and now it's been going on almost 3 months and started including the right side of my chest. Anyone out there experienced these same symptoms?

Hi Park 12,

Thanks for the encouragement. A couple of weeks ago I decided to accept that this was just anxiety, and I swear the symptoms made themselves known even more. I am trying to accept this is anxiety. Thanks Again!

RWC I have all the symptoms your having and after My doctor told me it was anxiety I did not be leave him so 7 years later my doctor still says its anxiety and I'm starting to be leave him but I have not been on this sight long and what I have learned is these people no what they are talking about. I have done the breathing they told me about it works for me and the mindfulmedatation they told me about and it helps. So try it