Posting in two forums: anxiety and sex issues.

Yesterday night I started feeling sharp pain in the heart area, as if my heart were being pressed on, squeezed, etc. I also felt rapid heart beat (did not measure it). It happened after two orgasms - the first one from my partner's hands and the second on from my masturbating in his arms. It was not clear to me what to do - to have more orgasms or stop? I stopped. I did not tell him because I wanted to ask this question first.

That kind of pain that is sharp and very narrowly located in the heart area (nothing unusual felt outside of the heart area) is a manifestation of anxiety, and I know it very well. It has been explained to me by a p-doc that REAL heart problems do not even manifest themselves in the pain inside the heart - heart attacks manifest themselves via pain in other regions of the body.

I did not have difficulty breathing and I was able to speak at the normal conversational pace.

I knew that I was not in danger. But it felt scary - meaning, had I not been instructed multiple times beforehand that anxiety/panic attacks are not dangerous, I would have felt quite scared, because the pain was sharp and pointed.

I fell asleep eventually and feel fine today.

But I wonder what would have happened had I not stopped but, rather, had more orgasms. Next time it happens, what should I do? Stop or go? Would continuing having orgasms relieve or exacerbate the pain? Likewise, would continuing having orgasms make my heart beat even more rapidly?

The sensation of rapid heart beat was a bit scary in and of itself.

There was no reason to feel anxious that I was aware of. We were at my partner's place, business as usual, nothing to be scared of.

Now that I have described this pain, I am feeling it again, except now it is subdued.