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Posted 12/22/2014 3:12 PM (GMT 0)
In mind, it's not just back pain, because it is on the left side of my back, I think it's my heart. AGAIN.

darn, I thought I got over this. I've had my heart checked over & over yet every little ache means a heart attack is looming...

I've been lifting boxes and moving furniture so there is a reasonable explanation for the pain. But my brain keeps trying to niggle away that it could be more than just back pain. Then I start to focus too much on this and then I wonder if my breathing is more shallow than normal...I feel like it's suffocating breathing, as though there is a cloth over my nose..

I want to be healthy and mentally okay for the upcoming holidays but it's there and I keep pushing it away...

I feel so silly.
I'm driving myself crazy.
Posted 12/22/2014 6:00 PM (GMT 0)
Hi PG.,

I am sorry this backache worry is making you feel so nervous about health issues. Health anxiety will do that to us...take an ordinary pain, and create a scary scenario with it.

Do all that you can to treat your back pain. Use a NSAID if you can...hot compresses, and light stretching. There are also good ointments and even pulsating treatment patches you can get OTC now!

That will probably ease your discomfort to the point that the worry goes away...

Also remember your postive mantras, and the health anxiety self help material in our Resources...use these as well!!

You are going to be alright.:)

Talk to you soon,

S.C.
Posted 12/22/2014 11:15 PM (GMT 0)
PanicGirly,

I hear you loud and clear...my back has been in constant pain since June and it's causing me the same fear and anxiety you are experiencing. Try a nice hot bath or shower and keep practicing positive mantra's like S.C. said.

Have you seen a doctor to give you something for the back pain?
Posted 12/23/2014 1:20 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks both for responding. I try to remind myself something I learned in yoga years ago. Try to imagine dropping your shoulders into your back pockets. When you do, it's amazing how scrunched up your shoulders actually are. Mine are usually right under my ears!

Right now I'm feeling more pain in my chest than my back. It's like they take turns & when the backs had enough it travels to the chest. It feels like a strap around my left shoulder.

My kids are unusually restless & it raises the anxiety ten fold:( I want to share their excitement but I'm not there right now..
Posted 12/23/2014 3:15 AM (GMT 0)
Panicygirl...I can relate 100%!!! I always think that everything is a looming heart attack as well (i'm 30 and have been to the ER about 7 times in the last 4 months for it) also my newest symptoms is the breathing issue u explained!! It's not like a shortness of breath so much, but like a slight suffocation feeling...u described it perfectly! I have it right now as i'm typing this. Just keep remembering that if something was wrong with your heart, they would of found an issue by now! best of luck!!! xoxo
Posted 12/23/2014 12:56 PM (GMT 0)
Yes Gmoon...I know that you're right but there is always that niggling in the back of my mind that says :doctors can be wrong.

I blame the media, always reporting on the cases where people are wrong. They need to report on more positivity than relishing the negative. I honestly think that is why so many of us are on this horrible anxiety ride.

The angel on one shoulder reminds me we all have to go sometime and enjoy every moment, but then the devil on the other says, why now, fight it because you don't have to go if you catch it in time.
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