Two weeks ago I start to have trouble breathing. Like I can't take a full breath no matter how deep I would breathe. It has calmed down, but comes back at night. When this happens I get very dizzy and my head feels weird--like it has pressure on it, but it's not a headache. And sometimes my arms will feel weak. Calming myself helps sometimes, but even when I'm calm this can still happen. The symptom that scares me most is it tends to get worse when I lay down, so I'm worried it's a heart problem. When I manage to fall asleep though, I feel fine when I wake even though I'm still laying down?? So maybe I'm letting things get to my head when I'm going to bed? I don't know, because it feels awful like my brain or arms will die from lack of oxygen. My sleeping patterns this week have been awful because I can't fall asleep. Every time I doze off I feel like my heart is stopping or I'm scared that if I fall asleep I won't breathe deep enough anymore and I'll die in my sleep, so I jolt awake.
I think this may be anxiety because about
half a year ago whenever I went to bed I started hyper focusing on my heart rate. I would worry if it was going too fast or slow, and I hated the feeling so much that I would avoid going to bed until I was absolutely exhausted. A few weeks ago I had a heart attack scare and almost went to the ER- I calmed down eventually and it was nothing.
I'm worried this is not anxiety because for years I've had vertigo/dizziness issues and I don't think I would have considered myself anxious back then. For the last 2 years my blood pressure can sometimes be low (though this is generally when I just woke up and haven't eaten yet). I've had blood flow problems for a while and my arms and legs fall asleep pretty easily.
I know the best thing to do would be to get checked out, but I'm currently uninsured and am broke. Does this sound like anxiety? Am I hyper focusing on an issue and making it worse? Or should I genuinely be worried? Can heart disease symptoms come and go from day to day like this? Also my mom has bad anemia, and the first time it ever affected her she was about
my age now.
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I kind of feel like I should add this: a few days ago I was driving and started getting dizziness/vertigo and starting freaking out (very out of character for me). When I got to my GFs house I was so overwhelmed that I started crying
Post Edited (char1243) : 6/16/2015 11:30:28 PM (GMT-6)