[jbird68]

My story.

About two years i wasn't feeling well at work. I had the shakes and shortness of breath. I had a coworker take me to my doctors office where I ended up having a "panic" attack. I then had a short ride to the local hospital because my BP was very high and I was hyperventilating. While there, I had a CT scan and EKG and nothing was wrong. I spent one night there and went home the next day. So back to the doctor. thought it may be my heart. So, I had a stress test and said it was abnormal. So I have an angiogram don't and everything is good. No heart condition issues. What next? Doctor send me to have a upper GI scope done and don't see anything there. I go a while and have some bad days and then back to the doctor. Let's have a lower GI scope done and we'll what is going on. The lower GI scope shows a little irritation but they don't do anything during the procedure(widening or stretching of the tube). They say I have GERD and I try 3 different meds that don't work and actually make me feel worse. I stopped taking them. So, I have symptoms of Shortness of breath, nausea and headaches). Some days I don't have any symptoms. Injustice read an article about anxiety not always being a mental issue but physical. That's where I feel I am. I don't feel like I am a worrier. So I never thought I had anxiety. But strongly feel the I don't have GERD. This has been going on for 2 years now and am tired of feeling like crap. I am actually on a men's getaway fishing trip which should relax me. Right? Well yesterday I felt aweful and didn't even feel like fishing. Almost ruined my whole day. It was beautiful out and had to stop fishing early and sit on the couch for a while. I am at my wits end with this. I forced myself to go out fishing in the afternoon and was able witness my fishing partner catch a nice pike. If I didn't force myself outside I would have missed that. I'm just tired of all this and not sure what to do anymore.

[Skeezyks]

Hello jbird: I see this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to PsychCentral.

One other forum, here on PC, that may be of interest would be the health support forum. Here's a link:

https://forums.psychcentral.com/health-support/

And then here are links to 12 articles from PsychCentral's archives, the first by our host Dr. John Grohol, Psy.D., that offer tips with regard to things you can do day-to-day to manage stress, anxiety & panic attacks:

Stress Management and Coping with Stress - Psych Central

10 Practical Ways to Handle Stress

9 Ways to Reduce Anxiety Right Here, Right Now

15 Small Steps You Can Take Today to Improve Anxiety Symptoms

Top 10 Lesser-Known Self-Help Strategies for Anxiety

https://psychcentral.com/blog/11-tip...anage-anxiety/

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/life-...dium=popular17

https://psychcentral.com/blog/everyt...-to-stop-them/

https://psychcentral.com/lib/tips-to...-attack/?all=1

https://psychcentral.com/lib/how-to-...panic-attacks/

https://psychcentral.com/blog/5-tips...dium=popular17

https://psychcentral.com/blog/managi...tacks-at-work/

I hope you find PC to be of benefit.

[WarpedTrekker]

How can a stress test be abnormal but angiogram show everything good with your heart?

Anyway, I've had the same tests run on me over the last two years. Angiogram and nuclear stress test. Plus I've had multiple holter monitors for weeks at a time. I pressed the button during one of my "panic" attacks to record them. But all they recorded was that my heart rate increased. No abnormal rhythms. I was sure I had something wrong with my heart, and every time I have a panic attack, I feel like I'm going to die and fall to the ground.

I had a very massive "panic" attack at work several weeks ago. It felt so bad, like it affected my heart, that I went to the emergency room to get checked out. But all blood work and tests on my heart were normal.

Panic disorder is very crippling and I hate living with it.

[jbird68]

Originally Posted by WarpedTrekker

How can a stress test be abnormal but angiogram show everything good with your heart?

Anyway, I've had the same tests run on me over the last two years. Angiogram and nuclear stress test. Plus I've had multiple holter monitors for weeks at a time. I pressed the button during one of my "panic" attacks to record them. But all they recorded was that my heart rate increased. No abnormal rhythms. I was sure I had something wrong with my heart, and every time I have a panic attack, I feel like I'm going to die and fall to the ground.

I had a very massive "panic" attack at work several weeks ago. It felt so bad, like it affected my heart, that I went to the emergency room to get checked out. But all blood work and tests on my heart were normal.

Panic disorder is very crippling and I hate living with it.

I don't know how it was and wasn't. I'm still looking for relief. Right now it's just shortness of breath, headaches and nausea feeling.