I need some encouragement! Anxiety is returning.

All the symptoms have started to freak me out. I'm getting the numbness and tingling again and trying to keep myself from running to the ER thinking I'm having a heart attack. To top it all off, my normally supportive husband told me that my heart attack fears were "getting old". Ouch

P-Fit,

I am so sorry your hubby said that to you.  I know mine can be insensitive at times and I either want to cry or punch him....well no punching allowed so I usually just have a pity party and then I kick the "Stinkin Thnkin" to the curb and get my  anxiety back down.

I will often come to HW and read and post as that keeps my brain engaged in something besides worrying.

If you truly think your problem could be cardiac call you physicians office or the nurse triage line for your clinic for advice in how to proceed.

Do talk with your Doctor re the return of your sx.

Remember to stay in the moment and do not worry about yesterday as that is over and tommorow is not yet here so live in today.

Hugs

Kitt

Hi P-Fit, nice to meet you!

I began having the most intense, severe chest pain in 2001, episodes that would last hours. As i have had Panic Disorder since 14, i knew it wasnt linked, but was really thrown and confused by it- ive had multiple surgeries for multiple reasons but i had never experienced pain like this.

Eventually, a year later, the chest pain was so bad that i was taken from my college dorm by ambulance to a nearby ER where after a big dose of morphine, they kept scratching their heads. I ended up seeing my hometown GP who immediately recognised my pain not as heart problems, but as gallstones. after tests and scans, i didnt just have gall stones, my actual gall bladder had rotted. no doctor had considered gallstones as they considered me "too young". i was 21. had the surgery at 22. what a relief.

now, i have stones in my bile duct, and that creates a similar pain in the chest- sometimes it feels like it will never end.

Sympathy, peace & blessings,

Maz XX