lileloa
06-21-2007, 08:06 PM
Hello everybody,
I'm new to this forum but not new to anxiety ;-) when I was a kid I used to pull my hair, growing up I used to deal with stress by having problems with my stomach, nausea and such...But nothing I ever really worried about, I've always have friends, been social, great grades, happy...
Last year, out of nowhere, I had my first panick attack, I was sitting with my sis and my grandaunt and I had a weird feeling in my chest, my heart started pounding like crazy, I was shaking and so on and so forth. They called an emergency doctor and after taking my oxygen level, and everything else, he basically told: anxiety...
I had an hard time believing him, though I realized he had to be true.
More recently, at a doc's appointment, while the nurse was taking my blood pressure, my heart started racing (up to 142 according to the monitor) and my blood pressure was really high. I did not panick, so it was "just" the heart. I went to a cardiologist who did plenty of test and did not find anything. It happened again 3/4 times where my heart, out of the blue, just starts racing, I usually calm myself down in less than 5 minutes.
However, being an cybercondriac as well, I keep on googling and realize I am in the process of persuading myself that I have to have a heart problem or that I could die from my tachycardia (today it seemed more like coming from the middle of my upperbody...)
I was just wondering if anybody "just" experiences tachycardia without any other symptoms...
Thank you !
I'm new to this forum but not new to anxiety ;-) when I was a kid I used to pull my hair, growing up I used to deal with stress by having problems with my stomach, nausea and such...But nothing I ever really worried about, I've always have friends, been social, great grades, happy...
Last year, out of nowhere, I had my first panick attack, I was sitting with my sis and my grandaunt and I had a weird feeling in my chest, my heart started pounding like crazy, I was shaking and so on and so forth. They called an emergency doctor and after taking my oxygen level, and everything else, he basically told: anxiety...
I had an hard time believing him, though I realized he had to be true.
More recently, at a doc's appointment, while the nurse was taking my blood pressure, my heart started racing (up to 142 according to the monitor) and my blood pressure was really high. I did not panick, so it was "just" the heart. I went to a cardiologist who did plenty of test and did not find anything. It happened again 3/4 times where my heart, out of the blue, just starts racing, I usually calm myself down in less than 5 minutes.
However, being an cybercondriac as well, I keep on googling and realize I am in the process of persuading myself that I have to have a heart problem or that I could die from my tachycardia (today it seemed more like coming from the middle of my upperbody...)
I was just wondering if anybody "just" experiences tachycardia without any other symptoms...
Thank you !