Side pain and chest pain

I am an 18 yr old female. At the beginning of this year, during finals period, I had really bad left side chest/arm pain that put me in ER. The Dr did EKG, blood work, chest xray... and everything came back negatively. The doctor just put me on Advil. The pain eventually went away and triggered again during the second finals period. I went to the doctor and he said it was probably because of stress considering my heart tests were normal from last time. I came back home after finals and the chest/arm slowly faded. However, one day before I had to go away from home for summer work, the pain came back but this time on my left abdominal side (like flank pain). I still went to work the next day but the pain started to get worse and it was alternating from right side to left side. When every thing stopped working, I took a medical leave and came back home. The doctor did stomach ultrasound and everything was normal so she referred me to a gastroenterologist. He did abdominal and pelvic CT scan and everything was normal. He started me on omeprazole. The omeprazole helped and my pain significantly subsided. I decided to go back to work. The day before I had to come back, the side pain started again but I still came back. I realized I couldn't sleep because I was alone in my room here and feared something would happen to me. After telling myself everything was fine... the pain subsided by Friday and I came home for the weekend (btw, I finished my course of omeprazole that Thursday). Now, I am back at work but since I have returned... I can't sleep. I was having side pain but today it has returned to chest pain. I couldn't focus at work today because of pain and then my upper left shoulder was burning and I couldn't stop thinking that I was having a heart attack or something. I also felt that I was having difficulty breathing but that could just be in my head. I don't know what to do. I am so worried sick. I have been repeatedly told by my parents that it is just anxiety. Why is the pain not going away? Anyone has any advice?

Post Edited (dax) : 7/19/2017 4:07:48 PM (GMT-6)

Hi

Welcome to the forum but sorry to hear of your current struggles.

Anxiety can cause all sorts of physical symptoms including the ones you mentioned so by doing all you can through self help to reduce your anxiety should help reduce/stop these symptoms. We have some great links in our resources section so take a look.

Keep us posted.

Hibee