illusion and pain due to anxiety

i have this awful pain since February till this moment , the pain is my chest right beneth the ribs it's a line gose from the middle of my lower chest to the nipple (leftside) the pain never gose away always there and i mean always there every second of every hour or every day , i've done tons of tests (chest x-ray , neck x-ray , echo , ultrasound scan for all my organs , blood work for lots of things) everything came back normal the only thing i haven't done yet is CT scan , visited 6 or 7 different doctors.
ofc im very anxious i been so for more than 4 years and now im at the top :D
my question is very simple , dose illusion has such power over us? can it be just my mind tricking me ???
when i try to think by logic ,
i say to myself " 6 months of constant pain near your heart ,that no doctor knows what it is and no test came back positive ,and im still walking , smoking and doing everything i used to do all the bad health habits and the good ones, this location in the body is so critical so it must be either my imagination , or something so tiny and will heal on it self".
but ofc worrying is a creep , i spent all my money on doctors with no help and im going through lots of troubles im not working so i cant afford visiting more doctors or doing more test for now.
my question to all of you again is , dose illusion has such power over us? can it be just my mind tricking me ???

here is an older post i made about the same pain im having if you'd like to know more about my symptoms
i visited 2 more doctors since i made this post

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=9&m=2764955

 

I made your URL a link for easier access to members

S.C.

 

 

Post Edited By Moderator (Scaredy Cat) : 8/29/2013 10:55:40 AM (GMT-6)

Hi Adeel,

I am sorry to hear that you are having continued pain.

Anxiety can and does cause real physical issues for us, however, since this is such a constant unwavering sensation, I am wondering if this is not something truly physiological in nature, and not stress related.

Most anxiety symptoms are transient, and often change from day to day, symptom to symptom. There are the predominant ones that bother us the most of course...but this just sounds too regular to me.

Can you remember if you have incured some type of injury in that area? Even having had a bad cough that could have caused you to injure a lower rib? I ask because scar tissue can cause a moderdate amount of pain, and I have some under my right ribcage for an old injury. (I broke a rib from a severe cough due to the flu)

I am wondering if you could look into this possibility. Massage and stretching can often relieve the pain of built up scar tissue...but first you will need to determine if this is the problem.

I know that you mentioned money as a concern, but perhaps you could see about consulting a chiropractor or holistic health care specialist, which could cost less than a doctor's visit?

This is purely a guess on my part. Please do not take this as medical advice...I am just trying to give you one more angle to consider, as I am sure you are getting frustrated at this point, after all of your tests have shown you nothing is wrong.

I wish you much luck in getting your answers. Let us know if you find out anything new to report.

Scaredy Cat

@Scaredy Cat and @lgm1942 : it is very confusing because when it first started one pill of xanax 0.5 used to completely element the pain , also i used to have panic attacks numbness and other unexplained symptoms like pounding heart beats , fast heart rate etc.. , but all that gone now except for the pain and xanax no longer effective.
this is why at first when i tired xanax i thought its just anxiety , but back then the pain wasn't constant and was in some other places still in my left side but moving from place to another then its now located in one point and can radiate till the end of the nipple , when i press my ribs where it hurts i feel the pain changing not getting sharper or less painful but feels different idk how to explain it feels like there is a wound right down the ribs a layer there that is wounded i hope you could understand what i mean
things i noticed about my pain is it increases when i sit
before i started to feel this god darn pain , i used to feel like there is a discomfort under my ribs but a bit lower than the pain location , then i started to have vibrations like feeling there for 2 weeks non-stop
then it went away ,after that i started to feel that my left side ribs attached to my breastbone are sore or jammed i was stretching them they were cracking but only on the left side and that used to relief that feeling
then it became pain sometimes later and ever since idk how to fix it

also i wanna state that i didnt get any injuries in that area or any other area for years , also nothing increase the pain except for sitting ,and laying on my stomach is the best pos to relief it and laying in general helps alot.
one more thing , i really sit lots of time by my computer because im a freelancer programmer ,even if im not working it became a habit

sorry guys its very confusing on so many levels or maybe its very simple idk im doing my best to explain it and doing my best to get rid of it.

Scaredy Cat said...
Well the fact that you had pain relief with Xanax is due to the fact that benzos are effective pain killers....so that makes sense. It doesn't completely answer your question as to what is going on however...

I forgot to mention the possibility of costcondritis. Take a look at this link and see if any of it seems familiar to your symptoms.


http://www.cfids-cab.org/cfs-inform/Ic/costomm.htm

S.C.

that's what i suspected from the beginning and what the last doctor suspected too
i used to take ibruprufen and other anti-inflammations it didnt help , but when i asked a pharmacist yesterday he said it would take sometimes to heal , and told me it could be due to cold and flu (i had cold and flu right before this pain appears) , my symptoms are so close to costcondritis except that it dose not hurt when i breathe or move , the pain is just there no matter what , i guess i will keep taking muscles relaxants and anti-inflammations for 2 more weeks and see how ti goes ,i got no other choice