[crashley211]

I've had cardiophobia for about 14 yrs now. I've had all sorts of heart palpitations which are my main fear.

I always come up with some new symptom freak out about it for awhile then it disappears and something new comes up. Well this would be the time that something new has come up and I'm freaking out about it.

My palps aren't usually what you'd consider palps to be described as. It's not the pause then the thud. It's thud/squeeze/pause all in one.

Lately it happens when I stand, bend my head downwards, twist my torso or whatever. If I eat then go to stand up it'll feel like I get the feeling then a second or two of nothing then the feeling again and this will go on and on for awhile. It's gotten to where I'm afraid to stand up, I get up very slowly now. After the episode I'd notice bloating and belching.

I asked 2 cardios about it and they said it wasn't my heart but sounded more like stomach issues. This helped for a couple days but the obsession and fear came back. And now the sensation is happening at different times and I'm just scared in general now. I'm afraid something is very wrong this time and I'm going to go into a fit and die.

I'm 28, mother of 3. I've had 9 ekgs in my life 6 of them being within the past 4-5 years. All are always normal. Stress test fine, 24 hour monitor nothing showed up.

YOu'd think after 14 years of this round and round I'd be a step closer to being over it but I keep getting sucked back in. Does anyone have any advice for me?

I have this extreme fear as well. It started from when I got severe ventricular fibrillations from starting Prozac (basically almost sudden death).

Now I think about it every time I'm anxious. I had a few ekgs done before and they say it's fine but that was before the Prozac.

Recently I had a bad panic attack and went to the ER. I hadn't slept for over 2 days prior to that and needed clonazepam to sedate me on top of risperidone 2mg which did nothing. I took 5 zzzquils as we'll and that did nothing before the panic attack.

So it's very serious to obsess about breathing and cardiovascular problems. I'm 100% sure what to do and that is to eat healthy (which made a huge difference on palpitations) and somehow not being so stressed to cause anxiety/panic. For me something sedating like alcohol every now and then helps because therapy isn't working as they aren't taking the problem seriously. Also what helps is to completely ignore it even though it's a problem (because to me it sounds like it is). We won't get a heart attack. Maybe we will.. But that's what we have to do I know it's hard.

Psychiatrists are being real jerks they hate benzos so much they would rather mate with an angry rhino than prescribe them. The only way I got prescribed clonazepam last year was because I had a foreign doctor prescribe.

I don't recommend alcohol though. Maybe heroin. Ya.. That's better.