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Posted 3/1/2007 12:11 AM (GMT 0)
  Why I am I constantly feeling like I am short of breath?  I feel like I can't even exercise anymore without my heart pounding out of my chest!
Posted 3/1/2007 1:59 AM (GMT 0)
verybusy,
I feel the same way. I have a 2 story house, and carrying my 5 month old up about 13 stairs makes me so out of breath! The littlest things make my heart beat like crazy!!!
Posted 3/1/2007 4:45 AM (GMT 0)
Does your heart do this even when you aren't doing anything at all? Mine does when I am just sitting down reading or apparently when ever it feels like it! I have three children under 7 and I've been feeling so badly lately. I feel like a weak mother.
Posted 3/1/2007 5:30 AM (GMT 0)
I live in a fourth floor walkup and it's weird...some days my heart races and I'll get winded coming up the stairs, and other times I don't.

Does it happen every time you exercise or just sometimes?
Posted 3/1/2007 6:18 AM (GMT 0)

   Hi ya'll I use to get the pounding of the heart too is it would stop me dead in my tracks from it but as time past I got use to it and now I just don't pay no mind to it as it is just a part of my anxiety of being hypersensitive to my body and how the mind overreacts to it thinking that I'm going to die from a heart attack and it dosn't mean that you are weak as miny of us have some kind of fatigue from it as well.

  Cowboy up

Posted 3/1/2007 12:19 PM (GMT 0)
I would feel this way when my anxiety was really bad. The punding of my heart would just take over and its all I would be able to concentrate on. Have you spoken with your doctor about this? Maybe if he arranged an ECg for you, it would put your mind at rest. I had an ECG and it was normal, then I could sit back and think phew, its anxiety theres nothing wrong with my heart.
Posted 3/1/2007 2:04 PM (GMT 0)
I notice my heart beating alot of times. Maybe I should ask my doctor for an EKG. Do people without anxiety not notice these things?
Posted 3/1/2007 11:52 PM (GMT 0)
I get the same thing walking up stairs, I think mine is due to muscle tension... my body is working much harder than it should to get up them. A little out of breath too... yet I can go play softball with my kids and be fine.. just can't pull myself up stairs without racing/pounding heart. Kinda weird.
Posted 3/2/2007 3:48 PM (GMT 0)
People with anxiety notice these things more - i can guaruntee it!!
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