[valfor]

Hi this will be a long story short but this gives me so much anxiety. had a traumatic experience 20 yrs ago when my children were stolen from by there dad who is from the middle east and took them there. My daughter is back with me when she turned 30 my son will be soon he is 26. ok dealt with that. Suffered greatly for years than my anxiety started 2007 have PSTD. Biggest scariest problem is heart palpitations, ended up in hospital 2013 just after my daughter came home. EKG showed abnormal heart rythem GP said go to emergency I did and they said If you were not sitting here right now we would have thought you are having a heart attack but you are not right? No I wasn't it so they were confused about that. Had Echo, cat scan, chest exrays, EKG"s, angiogram arteries were "beautiful" there words. But I have stiffening of my right ventricle I think that's the right word. Another Dr (seen so many) said I have an enlarged heart and possible cardiomyopathy. Gives me telismartin for my high blood pressure. Releases me and a week later see my regular Gp and she says your heart is fine, I said than why did that Dr say this, she says to scare you....well he did my palpitations are happening again and anxiety is so horrible I want to cry. WHo is telling the truth!!!!! I was fine for a couple of years after ths happened I did yoga meditating eating right exercise, Than my legs starting giving me problems so I couldn't do my yoga exercise because I hd a hard time walking limped for about 6 months told my Dr she says lose some weight you are getting older I'm 51. This is not normal so I fell in November 2015 and had an MRI now they called me in to talk about my results. One Dr says a pretty serious thing and another when just says 'YOUR FINE" am I shouldn't I have seen a cardiologist for a follow up after all this but they didn't seem concerned now my anxiety is thru the roof because I feel my heart again and it's scaring me. I have my kids husband and a great job so wtf is going on. Right now I feel twinges like cramps in my chest!!!! Or is this just my anxiety scaring me?

[Skeezyks]

Hello valfor: I'm sorry you are having so much difficulty. I have some similar things going on. I haven't seen a doctor yet. I don't know how much of what I'm experiencing is anxiety & how much is actually physical. One of the problems with this sort of thing is, I think, the more one worries about it, the more anxiety builds up & the more pronounced the symptoms become. So it can become a vicious circle, so to speak. I don't know what the answer is. My plan is to just wait & see what happens... I wish you well...

[-jimi-]

It seems like the first doctor gave you the diagnosis of suspected hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It's actually not really that uncommon and it is an illness very different to what gives you classic "heart attacks". It comes from heart walls being thickened, oftentimes from dealing from long term high blood pressure or just bad luck with genetics.

It comes in two forms mainly, one where blood can pass easily, and one where it has to struggle a bit. But it seems like the diagnosis was actually not made, but a guess that this could be behind your issues. You probably have the right to a printout of all your tests and records to see what was actually found out.

Symptoms can be irregular heart beats and palpitations. If you have this, the main thing to do is getting blood pressure down and heart rhythm stabilized. I assume you will go on checkups to see that the med you are on (I don't know much about it), actually deals with heart rhythm because if you indeed do have this, it is important that your heart ticks on as stable as possible. The treatment options are somewhat limited.

Maybe the other doctor just wants to calm you if you are already treated the best way possible?