[Rose76]

I get crushing chest pain that I know is from anxiety. I do not get panic attacks. Just this pain. Happens pretty seldom, but real pain in chest.

Anyone else get this?

I have at times. Maybe we should do a list of strange symptoms or manifestations of anxiety. Are you having it recently? Just askin'

[winter4me]

Originally Posted by Rose76

I get crushing chest pain that I know is from anxiety. I do not get panic attacks. Just this pain. Happens pretty seldom, but real pain in chest.

Anyone else get this?

The next time you experience "crushing" chest pain (vs a localized area of pain) go directly to the ER to rule out cardiac events. Anxiety also comes with cardiac problems ---- make certain it is "just" anxiety.
Crushing pain is Not normal with anxiety.

[lostinbooks]

I get it all the time. Even though I KNOW it's anxiety every once in a while I convince myself I am dying and go to the ER. They check me out and I'm fine. But if I were REALLY having a heart attack how would I know!!!

[Rose76]

I was having the chest pain last night when I started this thread. The really weird thing is that I always get it after having had some intense anxiety, but not at the actual moment that I'm having anxious thoughts. Like - last night - it came on when I thought I was quite relaxed.

This started in 2005 during a very tough period in my life. I did go to the ER back then. I really thought it was a cardiac event. By the time I got to the ER, the pain was all over with and they found nothing wrong. When it happens I have no shortness of breath or any other symptom.

Thanks for the concern, winter. I do know it's anxiety . . . sometimes just social anxiety. Today I'm going to visit cousins. That was on my mind a few hours before the pain started. I can always trace it to some particular thought that has made me fearful.

I hate to think that I'm this neurotic . . . that I'm worrying so bad that I give myself pretty intense pain. But it's not like a panic attack, and the worrying has died down by the time this thing starts. Another reason I know it's anxiety is that I can talk myself out of it just by realizing that it is not a heart attack. Still it's like an elephant has a foot on my chest.

I've been to a cardiologist a few years ago. Nothing was found other than I do have an unusually fast heart beat. One doctor told me that was anxiety, also, which I do not believe.

Thanks for the feedback. I felt so alone last night when this set in. Thanks for sharing George and lost. I feel less bizarre now.

When my anx was at its worst a pdoc put me on something... inderal? My heart rate was around 200 constantly. Wasted a lot of beats there
Hope you're having fun!

[Amireallyasleep]

yes i get chest pains often from my attacks the last time was when i was talking to my mom of the phone and i freaked out on her had to hang up because i could barely breathe my chest was so tight and then i cried for a while and called her back.

[lostinbooks]

Originally Posted by George H.

When my anx was at its worst a pdoc put me on something... inderal? My heart rate was around 200 constantly. Wasted a lot of beats there
Hope you're having fun!

My heartrate is also very high. Almost 200 beats a min. I read a biology book recently about how every person gets about the same amount of heartbeats in a life. Does that mean we will die young?

[Rose76]

lostinbooks: I dunno. Never heard that. But I wouldn't be surprised.

[Mountainman2013]

Originally Posted by Rose76

I get crushing chest pain that I know is from anxiety. I do not get panic attacks. Just this pain. Happens pretty seldom, but real pain in chest.

Anyone else get this?

I don't get crushing chest pain but just chest pains. This, along with shortness of breath, dizziness, tremors in my hands and lips when the anxiety gets really high. I've never been to the er for that but they would dismiss it all as stress and anxiety. After all I'm a mental patient.

[Rose76]

Mountainman: It's too bad to feel that your distress would be dismissed. Distress is distress. I no longer go to the ER for my chest pain, not because I think it is unimportant, but because I feel confident I know its origin when it happens.

If I got a bout of this that I could not resolve in 30 minutes or so, then I would expect help, if I asked for it. In my case, though, it does go away in less than 30 minutes, usually a lot less.

Anxiety is an awful thing to suffer from.