This speaks to me so well - in last 2022 I had 2 12-lead ECGs, a 48 hour monitor and then echo done by Dr Sanjay Gupta (most people in the cardiophobia space will know who this legend is) and I was told that my heart is "completely normal and I am the wrong kind of doctor for your problem". Now in June 2023, out of what feels like nowhere, I am having so many flutters and skips and thuds and double beats. I check my pulse in my neck and I can feel the gaps and flutters and it gets so worrying. This sucks so much after months of progress with getting back into running, hiking and weight lifting. Feel like I need to go back for every test all over again, Really does ruin your life!
This video and your comment chimed with me completely. I’m 63 now & I’ve struggled with this for years, on & off. I’ve always been fairly healthy & active. (I still work as a gardener). I used to love walking up mountains, cycling & swimming, but all this stopped after a sudden Atrial Fibrillation episode a decade ago. It hasn’t recurred, but I had years of very scary heart symptoms after this event. Strangely, they seem to have decreased with age, maybe because I’ve become so reluctant to exert myself too much! I think the sheer complexity of our mind, nervous system and fight / flight system is at the root of a great deal of these actual cardiac symptoms. The heart is only trying to cope with all this activity and often doing its very best in the circumstances. We should love & respect it…even when it grumbles!
i had skipped beat for over 10 years and it only started to freak me out since i have bad anxiety. This year i had fluttering for the first time and it freaked me out so much. I was like wtf my heart is beating like crazy what is happening am i going to drop dead in a second. I thought pounding racing heart was scary until i had my first heart fluttering experience this year. now everytime my hearts skips i am scared it will start flutttering again :S I had a 24hour ecg done and ofcourse my heart only skipped like 3 times lightly. Doctor told me that they are benign and not coming from a dangerous place. But damn that fluttering is so scary :S
This is me right now 33 year old male sporty active all my life but the flutters cripple me its terrible I'm even afraid to exercise lately with it even thou iv had all the tests and everything perfectly healthy. 😢😢
there was a time going up the stairs felt scary, i now climb literal mountains! if you’re going through this things can get better & thank you cherelle for everything you do ❤️
You can definitely experience palpitations, flutters, skips and all manner of ridiculousness as a result of being worried or having anxious thoughts. I would highly recommend the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. It teaches how to keep your mind from "racing" and catastrophizing everything that "could" happen to you and instead helps you remain in the present. Our minds have the power to physically affect our bodies. Anxiety can easily create heart palpitations, flutters, skips, dizziness, chest pain, numbness and all manner of personal torment and hell. Anxiety will not kill you. Go get examined by a doctor and tell them you are suffering from anxiety but you want to rule out any medical reasons. I'll finish with a great quote that saw me through some of my darkest days dealing with fear and anxiety. "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
I love this. I’m here because I went through a bad phase of cardiophobia and I got over it tbh , but last night I had a heart palpitation (anxiety related) and I got it into my head that something was wrong with my heart / breathing and I was out of rhythm or something. It’s extremely exhausting. But I know it’s my anxiety and intrusive thoughts trying to make me feel anxious and worried.. I like that quote though. A lot. I just feel like I’ve been reaching for things to be wrong subconsciously and it’s so hard for me to focus on positive things. It’s like a tic. That thought just keeps popping up. Do you have any advice?
I literally have felt every single one of your symptoms, but the chest pains that feel like they’re actually pains in my heart followed by bad headaches, pain in my left eye, where it feels like it will explode, and upper back/shoulder pain. It really sucks because it feels like I’m constantly going to have a heart attack and then when I feel good, i think that I’m really gonna die because they say high bp is quiet and some people don’t feel anything so I feel sick when I feel sick and also when I feel well. It’s overwhelming 😩
I thought I'm the only one suffering from this. I have three little kids, and I am terrified being alone with them. I love them so much. I have an image in my head of my dead body and my scared and helpless children around it. I suffer from panic attacks when I'm trying to sleep, because when I try to relax, I feel my heart beating and sometimes "skipping beats" and I feel that I'm going to die instantly. Sometimes I find it comforting that I will only die once, and my children will probably survive. Either my husband gets home or my oldest will seek help from neighbors. I've suffered for 6 months, and I'm still alive. The fear is really really awful, but I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one.
This!! I’m currently almost 4 months pregnant and I have this and have suffered with this for about 1-2 years but I’ve gotten a lot better but since being pregnant, it’s only increased my anxiety again. But this video has helped me so much! Thank you x
This was such a great relief to hear. So glad we're not alone. Is it weird to say I think I'm okay, but when I go okay, I'm going to get up and do the laundry or check the mail then immediately my mind goes, "this might be the day." so I just don't do anything. I wait until my boyfriend is home to even cook to eat. I've had maybe four ekgs in hospitals that came back fine, one from a cardiologist. She scheduled me a different day for stress test and halter but I didn't go. But I'd love to get another appointment that's close by just to find out specifically what those thumps are. Those aren't helping me neither. I've done cardio though and even step cardio at home many times. I survived and step aerobics is really invigorating too so I think I'm okay, I just need to get all the testing I need done so I can say I did everything I could. Anyway, love your video. I'm so glad you're helping people like us as well. It's inspiring! 😊
Omg this was me I went through thinking I had every single cancer first, then one night after work I got a skipped beat sent me straight into panic and now my Cardiaphobia has been hell living with, feeling my pulse in my fingers and chest,ectopics, flutters, short of breath, dizziness, tachycardia it’s so hard because you try to escape it but you can’t it’s with you constantly. I’m about to turn 19 it’s ruined my life I’m scared to walk up the stairs when I do my heart goes so fast , going for walks thinking my heart is going to stop, if I do go out I always have to make sure I’m with somebody just incase. Crazy as this sounds I’ve even fought my my mum and my brother cpr because I’ve fully convinced myself it’s going to happen to me it’s a living hell and so hard to live with id even say it’s debilitating.
I get tachycardia when i bend sometimes and can get it back to normal rhythm when i put my head down and it calms ..ive had it since i was 20 ..now 50 and now more than ever have cardiophobia even after holter monitor and consultant says im grand..also afraid to exercise...im getting ectopic beats too 😢 this video has helped me a lot thank you 😊
I struggle with the thought of walking upstairs sometimes, and haven't done vigorous exercise in years since having panic attacks. Cardiophobia is awful.
Hey I completely understand but please return to exercise! Start small like a walk but your heart needs movement and exercise even though I know it’s scary. I’m struggling with the same thing so trust me I know. Sometimes it takes me 20-30 min in the car before heading to the gym because I was horrified of working out but you always feel so much better afterwards. Goodluck with your journey!
This is my exact same storie, at first I worried about getting cancer, but then a friend told me he was scared of having a heart attack, and forgot about the cancer just to focus on my heart, and it is so much worse
I got over mine by literally working out. The more you worry and stress over it, the more damage you do to your heart and mental health. If overweight people can lose weight and not worry and their heart is fine, then you shouldn’t worry at all. Plus working out makes a stronger heart which means less and less chances of getting a disease
Didn't know this thing existed before this vid but I most certainly have it. My 5 year long and ongoing Anxiety actually started with cardiophobia that somewhat lingers to this day but isn't so severe. Still it prevents me from starting medications and causes insomnia. Back in the day I couldn't even sit or sleep without thinking about my heart. I was sure that in the next moment I would just drop dead. And each little pain I felt was a sign of a heart attack. More often than not I had to go trough a panic attack to calm back down. Nowadays I can jog a little bit. I do it on purpose almost daily to get exposure and to stay somewhat healthy. But even after all this exposure after my pulse rises above a certain treshold I feel a strong urge to stop. And after that I get anxiety and a new "little trauma" mixed with reassurance after almost every jog. I wonder if the jogging exposure itself is contributing to chronic stress... Who knows ? Thanks for these videos. They are reassuring.
Hello! I’m a new subscriber! I know this video is prob a few years old but it has helped me see a few things. I’m a 22year old Female, who has undergone an ASD repair when I was just thirteen months old. I constantly get heart palpitations/chest pain. The last time I went to the ER for it was like a week ago, and they said my heart was healthy and fine. But I still continue to get them. They don’t go away. I keep checking my Apple Watch to see my heart rate and to see if it says AFib. I want to exercise but I don’t because I’m afraid of passing out. I literally experienced almost everything you mention. I could really relate and I’m starting to think that it’s Cardiac Anxiety, even though I didn’t know it was a thing before now! So, thank you!!
Thanks for sharing. It’s not easy to talk about subjects like this that some people misinterpret as a mental disorder. Your story is almost a mirror image of my own!
Mine also. I still get random flare ups from time to time.. do you? .. like I had a heart palpitation recently and idk why but I’ve been so focused on it, even though it happened yesterday. It’s like, I’m so in tune with my body that the smallest thing can set me off into a series of bad thoughts. Working really hard with this
@@dignifieddan.4198 sorry to hear. I’m not a doctor or qualified to give advice but the first thing to do is get checked out by a GP then a cardiologist. You can’t self diagnose. Once that’s done you move onto the next step which is allowing the sensations and symptoms to be and change your minds perception of them. My journey into the anxiety abyss started in early 2014 when I started having chest pains and tightness 24/7, the more I focused on it the worse it got. I then had a massive panic attack and nervous breakdown. I got checked out and all was well but it was short lived and I went into psychosis of checking, googling symptoms and worse case scenarios raced through my head 34/7 making 2014 the worst year of my life. ER trip, countless GP visits, therapy, medication, irrational avoidance behaviour, panic attacks, the whole shebang. Every minute of every day was in anticipation of the “big one” the heart attack. I spent most of the last decade struggling but it’s been 5 years since ER visits, 4 since medication. The last 3 months have been relatively anxiety free. I can deal with the thoughts and bodily sensations. The thuds and palpitations no longer have me calling an ambulance. No googling symptoms. Just keep walking every day, eat well, avoid energy vampires and toxic people. Cut anyone or anything off that makes your life a drag. You have to or you’ll never be happy. To recap, get the tests, accept the unknown, keep busy with the things you love in life and you’ll be fine. Life is uncertain and nobody knows what’s coming. Best to be brave and live a full life rather than cower under the jackboot of anxiety!
Oh lord when you said about the app on the phone i instantly looked at you speaking and went "that's me, thats what i do". I said it out loud lol im doing much better now with my cardiophobia battle. My fight with it started a bit over 3 years ago when the pandemic started and today I'm doing better, still not 100% there yet and I'm not sure i ever will be but god if you could have seen me 3 years ago 😢😢😢 no amount of reassurance from friends, family, medical professionals could asuage me of my fears of me having heart disease, or heart attack or failure. i also had a spell where i thought i was gonna have a stroke any moment and I'd get these sharp short stabbing brain zaps on the left side of my upper forehead. God i was just a wreck for a good 2 and a half years but playing my guitar and going to work and doing stuff with my young son really helped me i think. Thanks for the openness in your video love and all the best and bless your heart for helping others after the ordeal you went through too. ❤
Glad to hear that you’re doing better man. I went through it also and it’s mostly gone but sometimes (today) a palpitation or sensation will set it off and then the bad thoughts start coming again. Any tips/ advice for any times you’ve had relapses?
@@dignifieddan.4198 Diaphragmatic breathing helps me, so just breathing from the Diaphragm like we should but we all breathe from the chest which is all wrong. Also going for walks helps me too or playing guitar. With regards to the breathing I lay on my back and breathe with the stomach rising instead of my chest and hold it for 3 or 5 seconds and then exhale for the same amount of time and repeat the process.
Wishing you the very best ❤️ I had a mental breakdown in 2021 bc of health anxiety and my therapist saved me. Please speak to a professional if you can xxx
My heart goes slower when I play football etc... It doesn't go crazy fast , mind you I had a heart valve replacement 12 years ago & can feel & hear my heart 24/7 ❤❤
I had my first panic attack in February/March 2024, and since then I was obsessed with my heart. My heart used to skip beats, I would get chest burn and pain, dizziness and that was super scary. I went to see a doctor (multiple times) and they did EKG on me witch came back normal and it kinda went away for a few months, but then I started to have headaches every day for 3 months so I convinced myself that I had a tumor (I did the MRI scan and everything is fine) and now I’m worrying about my heart again…like today I almost called an ambulance at work because I though I had a heart attack. It’s like never ending story.
The only way to get rid of this is going out running and dont half ass it, go 100% and repet until its gone. If you hold back your scared. You will probably panic at first but dont quit. The panic is your mind trying to stop you. And then you will win😊
Wow, I am constantly experiencing these symptoms and worrying about heart attacks and cardiac arrest - but I always put it down to it being part of panic disorder and general anxiety (catastrophic thoughts) rather than it being a phobia in itself
I'm in the same situation, I check my pulse all the time, I avoid things that can make my heart race, even walking. That's a horrible feeling and no one understand
I have cardiophobia since a lot of people have been passing away from heart attacks since February 2023. I dont have pounding chest or pains but lightheadedness plus anxiety attacks sometimes. Taking homeopathy as a relief but haven't found much relief yet.
Hello Cherelle! Can you do a video about your journey with brain tumour phobia? I have it and it makes me nervous and stressed alot of the time. I have had cardiophobia before it horrible. Thanks! 😊
Great stuff. I had heart disease when I was young, and that got fixed but later when I was 20 I had pericarditis and ended up in the hospital for many days. Since then I started getting worried with my heart and had 5 or 6 years of panic attacks. All that was sorted thankfully but there is still one last piece of the puzzle I can’t seem to solve :( Randomly, but more times when I stop running, I get a scary flutter in the centre of the chest only for a split second that makes you want to cough. Almost like you lose your breath for that second. Sometimes one straight after the other. Doesn’t last more than 30secs or so. I stop a bit and then carry on running or doing whatever I was doing. Had them laying down sometimes too. More recently had a bigger episode that I think triggered my anxiety to the point my heart went up and down like crazy and ended up calling the ambulance and did several ECGs blood test etc all fine. Ended stopping the gym with worry, and first day I went back(after nearly a month), as soon as I started my session felt one of them flutters, heart went from 90 to 145, palpitations, shacking etc. Had to stop the workout and was a waste. Now I’m not sure which way to go, as I done many ECGs, many blood tests too. All I can think is must be anxiety induced still, and I don’t know how to fix it for good
Hey. How are you doing today? I've had those exact flutters that you speak of. I feel it in the chest and throat and it makes me cough. It raises my pulse, makes me sweat and I get a hot flash while I reach for my phone as a safety measure. It feels like a mini panic attack or like a tiger just jumped on me from a bush. I get them twice a week while sitting or when laying in bed and this has been happening for 2 years now. I'm scared of workout but I do it anyway, while keeping my pulse at reasonable levels. That said, it is still very limiting and anxiety inducing when it happens. I don't know if it's the heart, but it certainly feels like it. If I'm not mistaken, Arrhythmias are actually common and occur in most people, even healthy ones. They can be observed in EKG. Or it could be some nerve firing in the chest and neck area ? So far my method has been to accept it. To respect it. And to live with it. Trying to eat healthy and excercise a bit. I haven't started investigating further, as every time I do, I only get more anxious. Please do tell if you happen find out something about this "flutter" thing.
@@shanbazall Hello, I have read that a heart flutter can be caused by anxiety. I have found it helpful reading the 'Health Anxiety Reddit' as this helps you wonder what your symptoms could be and there are others who have been through the same thing as you plus they are usually supportive.
I have experienced EXACTLY this and after running for a couple of years, I have completely stopped out of fear of this happening so basically im getting unfit coz im too scared to run.. Yet they say exercise is good for your heart! Ive had many ecgs and doctors tell me im fine but im not convinced coz i feel like other "normal healthy people" dont experience this when running.. This is the VERY reason I even landed on this video, and seeing your comment just now was like I wrote this myself😢@BrunoEnrique
@@candylacecakes5723 i know how frustrating this is. I have done all exams as well and a month ago I even did a CT Angiogram, and doctors confirmed my heart and cardiovascular system is all good. So at this point I think I just gonna have to live with it, as I was before. Some people still tell me this is anxiety induced, but who knows. I do know if I’m more stressed it happens more frequently. I also know generally doesn’t happen in weight lifting sessions or dancing. Happens more when running. Let me know if you figure anything out on this. All the best.
@@BrunoEnrique I deft will and let me just say im SO sorry you are dealing with this.. People who have never experienced this or have never had to deal with this have no idea how very real, very scary and very debilitating it is. I trust we will figure this out and live long happy healthy lives doing fun things like the fun people do 😄
I am 32 years male, I have overcome with the fear of cardiophobia in very short time maybe in couple of months after my first panic attack it shredded me in pieces. it started like I see a video of a young man died of cardiac arrest and I was at the point of shivering day and night watching my pulse breathing issues and all other shit, height was when I was going through all this I didn't knew I was going through cardiophobia So cut short coming to the healing process, I am strong believer in God and daily practice my Muslim religion, I came across over few verses in Glorious Quran about death which relaxed me to an extent all the symptoms started to vanish and the fear of death vanished totally, I have mentioned below may be that will help Chapter 3:145 (No soul can die except without the permission of god at an appointed time). Explanation of the verse means God has already decreed our time of death and certainly it will come that single moment we can't survive before that none can harm you so no point of thinking death 24/7, people stuck in this anxiety from years, I say if God has written 95 years of age for you and you have a death anxiety at 35 bro you are ruining your life Quran (4:78) Wherever you might be, death will overtake you even though you be in massive towers. Third verse from Glorious Quran Chapter 39:42 (God takes the souls at the time of their death, and souls of those that do not die during their sleep. Then He keeps the souls of those for which He has decreed death and releases the souls of others in morning for a appointed time. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought). Explanation of the verse means we are dying daily in our sleep so there's no point of fearing death again god said there's a appointed time for death hence no point of thinking death daily and wasting precious time. Other things which really helped me was walking alone in evening atleast 45 minutes and convencing myself that your heart is okay otherwise you wouldn't able to walk this much heart patients unable to walk, your mind need arguments to calm down, mind don't understand direct affirmation that you are okay. Lastly I started watching few videos of people who are suffering from cancer and doctor told them they don't have much time, that really struck me that I have no diseases still I am overreacting and not appreciating the time God gave me to live and make myself and others happy. At the end just don't keep constant focus on your heart.
Ive been trying exposure therapy for over a year and its done nothing to help. Im still just as worried about my heart as i was. The fact that symptoms are still there makes me stressed no matter how much exposure i do.
im also going through it trauma made my life hell i went to many doctors they said im completely fine but i was still afraid till yesterday it happened again i figured that its hopless to keep worrying so now i actually dont care i leave it to God i die or not it doesnt matter suffered enough u should focus on other things
I'm crying when listening all this i suffer for 3 years i went in cardiologist many times many echos or ekg and other everything is okay but chest pain still exist and make me feel so bad guys please help me
I never had a panic attack in my life until little less than a year ago. I was smoking with a friend and I got a crazy bad panic attack, I realized my heart rate was 160 and rising (while laying down!) and I started to think to myself what If I died and where was I going to end up. When I started thinking about that I started to have what I can only explain as “hot flashes” if you know what hot flashes are then you know how scary they can be. Ever since then I’ve been trying to better myself and get rid of unhealthy things such as sugary foods/drinks, caffeine, drugs, alcohol, its now got to the point where it is hard to exercise or have my heart rate increased in any type of way that it starts to scare me.
I’m currently going through this I’m peri menopausal and on a hormone patch and of course the side effects are heart racing so I’m currently experiencing cardio phobia gone to gp wore a heart monitor overnight dr says nothing to worry about but days later I awake with racing heart went to emergency room they ran several test said didn’t find anything I have a stress test and sleep study test scheduled this month anxiety and panic attack runs in my family I had this bad in my 20’s then miraculously got over it until last year when we lost my step son to suicide now I’m having health anxiety to the max trying to get it under control but finding it very difficult thinking of maybe trying some anxiety medicine but don’t like taking medicine because all the side effects the side effects give me anxiety praying God will get me through this and menopause any suggestions
It started with a massive panic attack…I did many panic attacks in the past, but this one really made my heart pounding like it wanted to get out of my chest. I was sure I was going to die, like 99% sure, so the experience terrified me. This episode happened a year ago, and now I’m back (since years) to exercice again…and believe me, it’s a struggle. I can’t drink even one glass of alcool now cause I feel my heart pounding, I take my pulse many times a day. At night ,I’m hyper vigilant and I can just feel my heart pounding. On the opposite, just the thought that I have a heart and it’s beating since I’m in my mother’s wound makes me anxious…I know it’s not logical thoughts but that’s my kind of anxiety.
Even reading the word "heart" is somewhat triggering for me. But I don't think it is an illogical fear. And that is precisely what makes the fear of it so potent and a huge problem. Sorry if this is triggering but there is no other way to describe it. For me it is scary because there is "a lump of pumping muscle" inside of me that I have almost no control over. If it decides to go crazy or even stop, I can't help it. It seems to be out of my control. I see my own heart, the thing that is keeping me alive, as a threat. It's sad. But this wasn't always the case. I wonder what changed along the way ?
Did you feel weird for a while after your massive panic attack? Because I had one too. And I haven't felt the same and i've been having dizziness and weird symptoms like fatigue every day
@@JessicaMacLeod-ew5be that massive panick attack turned my world around for a year and a half. Now, I’m medicated with anti-anxiolytique, the smallest dose and it’s a game changer. I did therapy and all, but at the end, medication really helped…That massive panick attack was the starting point of a lot of symptoms (that, of course, I though were related to health): palpitation, muscle spasms, fear of being alone and die, paranoia, dizziness, aura in the vision, muscle tension, throat spasm, hyper awareness, toc…fatigue too…being on edge constantly (even during my sleep) is energy draining.
The feeling the heartbeat all over your body is so true smh even in my ears/head. Being scared of even standing up or using the restroom 🚽 because the heart will pound smh stairs or exercise a no. Its so freaking dumb and scary 😞
Going through it right now, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations and dont forget the dizziness accompanied by that sick feeling thats hard to explain.
Can you please reply to me?.. my health anxiety started about me checking about me getting a anxiety attack and i started to worry and googling.. ever since i thought i have OCD, anxiety, depression,brain tumour,now i m believing in i will have psychosis because this self talk i do.. i notice that and i feel i will end up talking to me forever without my concious.. i m worried i couldn't stop my self talk.. what should I do? Therapists here say it's just anxiety but i m not anxious.. i just keep self talking that i m ok
Please reply and help me... I am stressed and suffering from health anxiety and numbness in my stomach is killing me. My doctor said don't be afraid but i think you only can understand my problem.
It all started for me when a young boy in my neighbourhood died of an heart attack but that night it really messed me up i started thinking that something like that could happen to me at any given moment too which led to me having constant anxiety about it i started googling everything which made it even worst id have panic attacks and i would end up at the hospital when i would get the results i would be happy that everything was fine but since it was the pandemic i couldnt leave the house very much which made it so much more worse it would be constantly on my mind 24/7 it always made me feel like i was going to die so id find more things that were wrong with me to distract myself from the heart but id eventually end up back there anyway its been almost 4 years now its gotten better but now i get it only when i am about to sleep my heart rate goes up and i feel like somethings wrong so i am avoiding sleep i just want to sleep its so bad i wish there was jusf a switch to elevate anxiety
Yeah I am still going through same and afraid to exercise too...I am afraid every minute of the day that my heart isnt strong enough and might stop,when I get skip beats I freak out even after test, the assurance only last a day and the next day I am back to the obsession. Mine started with a huge panic attack caused by my so many gut issues and ever since I just can't help it...I feel like I get more than 10 heart attacks a day with the arm pain and recently I stopped trusting my BP monitor and went to get a smart watch, now I feel I can't trust the smart watch and need to get another BP monitor....just can't help but worry😢
I go through all the freaking time it took away my freaking life. Honestly, if I could pray to have anything is to have my life back I want to be a piece again. I want to go out. I wanna have purpose in life. I do not want to be incarcerated in my freaking mind.
Hey I really need your help I had abnormal ECG at the ER (T wave inversions & Sinus Tachycardia) but keep in mind I was at a panic state of mind and fidgeting around also get ectopic beats during panic. I was sent to see a Cardiologist to perform a stress test and a echo for my heart both came good but I still obsess over the thought that I had a abnormal ECG any tips ?
ECG isn't massively reliable it can be off and sinus tachycardia is not an issue just means heart was lightly high. A 48 hour ECG tape would show anything. I did a 48 hour ECG and it came back borderline, referred to speciliast and he said I wouldnt have referred you at all, unless you have Afib or something obvious its likely anxiety
@@PJOC31 Hey thanks yeah I ended up having 3 more ECGs and a 72 hour monitor and those all came out good. But the one thing I struggle with is being scared of the high heart rate. I just think that panicking for a long time like when it becomes more than a hour it’s dangerous because the heart isn’t getting any time to come back down to normal bpm is there any advice you can give me on that ?
Oh, my god, i'm going through this too I had abnormal e c g as well and that said incomplete right bubble branch block Borderline and rightward axis 😢 Scared me to shit But they told me to ignore all of that that my ECG was normal. I just don't get it if it's normal. It shouldn't say any of that at all
It's really sounds like my own story. I am severly going through this since past 2 years. I spent most of my time watching videos n condition getting worse. The thought never goest out of my mind.. Since awake till bed time. Unable to concentrate on my Job.. Daily routine work... Always feels heaviness in left side of chest n arms.
@@hi-vj2uz comeptlely okay. I was in a state of extreme emotional stress and I had a psychotic break. My body was definitely tired and i was defintily faint with chest pain and breathing issues but it was not heart disease. ssris have eliminated my physical symptoms entirely
I had the same situation when the doctor told me I had mild stenosis in right carotid. This was my trigger. I started having cardiophobia, thinking my arteries will getting blocked. I had tachycardia and palpitations you know why? Because I started with menopause symptoms too. 😂 Everything was related to my hormones imbalance. After received the proper treatment, I feel better now. I lose weight and my cholesterol levels were back to normal. 🙏🏼❤️
Hi Cherelle ! Cn you please do a video about muscle spasms and tightness in calf muscles...I am so scared of ALS..my left leg feels very wierd when i walk slowly but when i do brisk walking the tightness is gone!
did you or anyone ever have their arms/hands go purple? I feel like an intense pressure in my arms and my hands will turn purple. Dr.s keep saying it's capillaries contracting and act like it's no big deal. It's rather alarming to me though
Surely a test that actually visualises your coronary arteries is the best way to convince someone any chest pains is not angina or a heart attack ? A full angiogram where they put tube into an artery in your groin or arm and then inject a dye into the coronary arteries is best but has a tiny risk . Therefore, a CT angiogram where a dye is injected into a vein in your arm and outlines the coronary arteries is a good compromise as it's about 95% accurate, so only a tiny chance of missing something .
I have anxiety 1 week ago and I need help because when I check my pulse I am nervous and when it nervous and I will search on google and that leads to a panic attack and I will cry suddenly because I thought I was gonna die
You’re not gonna die. Don’t take beta blockers and anti-anxiety medicines.Believe me You’re not gonna die.If you stress yourself over and over again then doctor will prescribe you anti-depressive medicine which is poison for our body.Just believe me you’re totally fine and stop this thinking nowwwww
I have been struggling with heart palpitations for the last 10 years and I tell you its not fun at all... I went to the doc a couple of times and they always tell me im fine 😂 I get them especially when i work out.
I’ve been dealing with this for over a year. It started after a bad experience on cocaine (I know taking drugs is stupid) and my heart was beating out of control. In the days following I still had palpitations and started googling my symptoms convincing myself I did permanent damage. Eventually I went to the hospital and had some tests done all came back fine but ever since then I’ve been crazy obsessed with my heart. There’s been times when it’s gone away and then came back 10 times worse. I’m getting better at living with it but it’s hell
theres nothing wrong except your crazy I VE JUST had a heart attack and had to have open heart surgey its been about two months IM push mowing my yard riding my bike and dont understand your worrying your wasting your lives
Definitely my biggest fear, especially because I have heart palpitations. It's so difficult to accept the feeling and to accept the thought that yes, your heart can palpitate daily even if it's healthy. But I’m far better than I used to be thanks to therapy ❤️🩹
This speaks to me so well - in last 2022 I had 2 12-lead ECGs, a 48 hour monitor and then echo done by Dr Sanjay Gupta (most people in the cardiophobia space will know who this legend is) and I was told that my heart is "completely normal and I am the wrong kind of doctor for your problem". Now in June 2023, out of what feels like nowhere, I am having so many flutters and skips and thuds and double beats. I check my pulse in my neck and I can feel the gaps and flutters and it gets so worrying. This sucks so much after months of progress with getting back into running, hiking and weight lifting. Feel like I need to go back for every test all over again, Really does ruin your life!
It really really does completely ruin lives 😢😢😢
This video and your comment chimed with me completely. I’m 63 now & I’ve struggled with this for years, on & off. I’ve always been fairly healthy & active. (I still work as a gardener). I used to love walking up mountains, cycling & swimming, but all this stopped after a sudden Atrial Fibrillation episode a decade ago. It hasn’t recurred, but I had years of very scary heart symptoms after this event. Strangely, they seem to have decreased with age, maybe because I’ve become so reluctant to exert myself too much! I think the sheer complexity of our mind, nervous system and fight / flight system is at the root of a great deal of these actual cardiac symptoms. The heart is only trying to cope with all this activity and often doing its very best in the circumstances. We should love & respect it…even when it grumbles!
i had skipped beat for over 10 years and it only started to freak me out since i have bad anxiety. This year i had fluttering for the first time and it freaked me out so much. I was like wtf my heart is beating like crazy what is happening am i going to drop dead in a second. I thought pounding racing heart was scary until i had my first heart fluttering experience this year. now everytime my hearts skips i am scared it will start flutttering again :S I had a 24hour ecg done and ofcourse my heart only skipped like 3 times lightly. Doctor told me that they are benign and not coming from a dangerous place. But damn that fluttering is so scary :S
This is me right now 33 year old male sporty active all my life but the flutters cripple me its terrible I'm even afraid to exercise lately with it even thou iv had all the tests and everything perfectly healthy. 😢😢
@@ianhawe5891i hear you dude. I really do. I’ve had a lot of the same experiences… how have you been?
there was a time going up the stairs felt scary, i now climb literal mountains! if you’re going through this things can get better & thank you cherelle for everything you do ❤️
You can definitely experience palpitations, flutters, skips and all manner of ridiculousness as a result of being worried or having anxious thoughts. I would highly recommend the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. It teaches how to keep your mind from "racing" and catastrophizing everything that "could" happen to you and instead helps you remain in the present.
Our minds have the power to physically affect our bodies. Anxiety can easily create heart palpitations, flutters, skips, dizziness, chest pain, numbness and all manner of personal torment and hell.
Anxiety will not kill you. Go get examined by a doctor and tell them you are suffering from anxiety but you want to rule out any medical reasons.
I'll finish with a great quote that saw me through some of my darkest days dealing with fear and anxiety.
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
I love this. I’m here because I went through a bad phase of cardiophobia and I got over it tbh , but last night I had a heart palpitation (anxiety related) and I got it into my head that something was wrong with my heart / breathing and I was out of rhythm or something. It’s extremely exhausting. But I know it’s my anxiety and intrusive thoughts trying to make me feel anxious and worried..
I like that quote though. A lot.
I just feel like I’ve been reaching for things to be wrong subconsciously and it’s so hard for me to focus on positive things. It’s like a tic. That thought just keeps popping up.
Do you have any advice?
I literally have felt every single one of your symptoms, but the chest pains that feel like they’re actually pains in my heart followed by bad headaches, pain in my left eye, where it feels like it will explode, and upper back/shoulder pain. It really sucks because it feels like I’m constantly going to have a heart attack and then when I feel good, i think that I’m really gonna die because they say high bp is quiet and some people don’t feel anything so I feel sick when I feel sick and also when I feel well. It’s overwhelming 😩
Yess im feeling the same thing right now constant chest pain and upper back pain 😢 it's stopping me from living in this moment
How are you?? Are you doing any better?
I thought I'm the only one suffering from this. I have three little kids, and I am terrified being alone with them. I love them so much. I have an image in my head of my dead body and my scared and helpless children around it. I suffer from panic attacks when I'm trying to sleep, because when I try to relax, I feel my heart beating and sometimes "skipping beats" and I feel that I'm going to die instantly.
Sometimes I find it comforting that I will only die once, and my children will probably survive. Either my husband gets home or my oldest will seek help from neighbors. I've suffered for 6 months, and I'm still alive. The fear is really really awful, but I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one.
My worst fear.I have two autistic kids who won't be able to make a phone call if anything was to happen 😢.
This!! I’m currently almost 4 months pregnant and I have this and have suffered with this for about 1-2 years but I’ve gotten a lot better but since being pregnant, it’s only increased my anxiety again. But this video has helped me so much! Thank you x
This was such a great relief to hear. So glad we're not alone. Is it weird to say I think I'm okay, but when I go okay, I'm going to get up and do the laundry or check the mail then immediately my mind goes, "this might be the day." so I just don't do anything. I wait until my boyfriend is home to even cook to eat. I've had maybe four ekgs in hospitals that came back fine, one from a cardiologist. She scheduled me a different day for stress test and halter but I didn't go. But I'd love to get another appointment that's close by just to find out specifically what those thumps are. Those aren't helping me neither. I've done cardio though and even step cardio at home many times. I survived and step aerobics is really invigorating too so I think I'm okay, I just need to get all the testing I need done so I can say I did everything I could. Anyway, love your video. I'm so glad you're helping people like us as well. It's inspiring! 😊
Omg this was me I went through thinking I had every single cancer first, then one night after work I got a skipped beat sent me straight into panic and now my Cardiaphobia has been hell living with, feeling my pulse in my fingers and chest,ectopics, flutters, short of breath, dizziness, tachycardia it’s so hard because you try to escape it but you can’t it’s with you constantly. I’m about to turn 19 it’s ruined my life I’m scared to walk up the stairs when I do my heart goes so fast , going for walks thinking my heart is going to stop, if I do go out I always have to make sure I’m with somebody just incase. Crazy as this sounds I’ve even fought my my mum and my brother cpr because I’ve fully convinced myself it’s going to happen to me it’s a living hell and so hard to live with id even say it’s debilitating.
How are u now
I get tachycardia when i bend sometimes and can get it back to normal rhythm when i put my head down and it calms ..ive had it since i was 20 ..now 50 and now more than ever have cardiophobia even after holter monitor and consultant says im grand..also afraid to exercise...im getting ectopic beats too 😢 this video has helped me a lot thank you 😊
I struggle with the thought of walking upstairs sometimes, and haven't done vigorous exercise in years since having panic attacks. Cardiophobia is awful.
Hey I completely understand but please return to exercise! Start small like a walk but your heart needs movement and exercise even though I know it’s scary. I’m struggling with the same thing so trust me I know. Sometimes it takes me 20-30 min in the car before heading to the gym because I was horrified of working out but you always feel so much better afterwards. Goodluck with your journey!
This is my exact same storie, at first I worried about getting cancer, but then a friend told me he was scared of having a heart attack, and forgot about the cancer just to focus on my heart, and it is so much worse
I got over mine by literally working out. The more you worry and stress over it, the more damage you do to your heart and mental health. If overweight people can lose weight and not worry and their heart is fine, then you shouldn’t worry at all. Plus working out makes a stronger heart which means less and less chances of getting a disease
Didn't know this thing existed before this vid but I most certainly have it. My 5 year long and ongoing Anxiety actually started with cardiophobia that somewhat lingers to this day but isn't so severe. Still it prevents me from starting medications and causes insomnia. Back in the day I couldn't even sit or sleep without thinking about my heart. I was sure that in the next moment I would just drop dead. And each little pain I felt was a sign of a heart attack. More often than not I had to go trough a panic attack to calm back down.
Nowadays I can jog a little bit. I do it on purpose almost daily to get exposure and to stay somewhat healthy. But even after all this exposure after my pulse rises above a certain treshold I feel a strong urge to stop. And after that I get anxiety and a new "little trauma" mixed with reassurance after almost every jog. I wonder if the jogging exposure itself is contributing to chronic stress... Who knows ?
Thanks for these videos. They are reassuring.
Hello! I’m a new subscriber!
I know this video is prob a few years old but it has helped me see a few things. I’m a 22year old Female, who has undergone an ASD repair when I was just thirteen months old. I constantly get heart palpitations/chest pain. The last time I went to the ER for it was like a week ago, and they said my heart was healthy and fine. But I still continue to get them. They don’t go away. I keep checking my Apple Watch to see my heart rate and to see if it says AFib. I want to exercise but I don’t because I’m afraid of passing out. I literally experienced almost everything you mention. I could really relate and I’m starting to think that it’s Cardiac Anxiety, even though I didn’t know it was a thing before now! So, thank you!!
Im 20 years old and struggle since I was 17 😭 I feel stuck in my head
Same😭
:( Can I help you. God bless you
I relate with each and every word
Thanks for sharing. It’s not easy to talk about subjects like this that some people misinterpret as a mental disorder. Your story is almost a mirror image of my own!
Mine also. I still get random flare ups from time to time.. do you?
.. like I had a heart palpitation recently and idk why but I’ve been so focused on it, even though it happened yesterday. It’s like, I’m so in tune with my body that the smallest thing can set me off into a series of bad thoughts. Working really hard with this
@@dignifieddan.4198 sorry to hear. I’m not a doctor or qualified to give advice but the first thing to do is get checked out by a GP then a cardiologist. You can’t self diagnose. Once that’s done you move onto the next step which is allowing the sensations and symptoms to be and change your minds perception of them.
My journey into the anxiety abyss started in early 2014 when I started having chest pains and tightness 24/7, the more I focused on it the worse it got. I then had a massive panic attack and nervous breakdown. I got checked out and all was well but it was short lived and I went into psychosis of checking, googling symptoms and worse case scenarios raced through my head 34/7 making 2014 the worst year of my life. ER trip, countless GP visits, therapy, medication, irrational avoidance behaviour, panic attacks, the whole shebang. Every minute of every day was in anticipation of the “big one” the heart attack. I spent most of the last decade struggling but it’s been 5 years since ER visits, 4 since medication. The last 3 months have been relatively anxiety free. I can deal with the thoughts and bodily sensations. The thuds and palpitations no longer have me calling an ambulance.
No googling symptoms. Just keep walking every day, eat well, avoid energy vampires and toxic people. Cut anyone or anything off that makes your life a drag. You have to or you’ll never be happy.
To recap, get the tests, accept the unknown, keep busy with the things you love in life and you’ll be fine. Life is uncertain and nobody knows what’s coming. Best to be brave and live a full life rather than cower under the jackboot of anxiety!
Oh lord when you said about the app on the phone i instantly looked at you speaking and went "that's me, thats what i do". I said it out loud lol im doing much better now with my cardiophobia battle. My fight with it started a bit over 3 years ago when the pandemic started and today I'm doing better, still not 100% there yet and I'm not sure i ever will be but god if you could have seen me 3 years ago 😢😢😢 no amount of reassurance from friends, family, medical professionals could asuage me of my fears of me having heart disease, or heart attack or failure. i also had a spell where i thought i was gonna have a stroke any moment and I'd get these sharp short stabbing brain zaps on the left side of my upper forehead. God i was just a wreck for a good 2 and a half years but playing my guitar and going to work and doing stuff with my young son really helped me i think. Thanks for the openness in your video love and all the best and bless your heart for helping others after the ordeal you went through too. ❤
Glad to hear that you’re doing better man. I went through it also and it’s mostly gone but sometimes (today) a palpitation or sensation will set it off and then the bad thoughts start coming again.
Any tips/ advice for any times you’ve had relapses?
Can I help you?
@@dignifieddan.4198 Diaphragmatic breathing helps me, so just breathing from the Diaphragm like we should but we all breathe from the chest which is all wrong. Also going for walks helps me too or playing guitar. With regards to the breathing I lay on my back and breathe with the stomach rising instead of my chest and hold it for 3 or 5 seconds and then exhale for the same amount of time and repeat the process.
You are so brillaint what you do thank you so much for your videos
I’ve been dealing with this for over a year and it’s been awful :(
Wishing you the very best ❤️ I had a mental breakdown in 2021 bc of health anxiety and my therapist saved me. Please speak to a professional if you can xxx
My heart goes slower when I play football etc... It doesn't go crazy fast , mind you I had a heart valve replacement 12 years ago & can feel & hear my heart 24/7 ❤❤
I had my first panic attack in February/March 2024, and since then I was obsessed with my heart. My heart used to skip beats, I would get chest burn and pain, dizziness and that was super scary. I went to see a doctor (multiple times) and they did EKG on me witch came back normal and it kinda went away for a few months, but then I started to have headaches every day for 3 months so I convinced myself that I had a tumor (I did the MRI scan and everything is fine) and now I’m worrying about my heart again…like today I almost called an ambulance at work because I though I had a heart attack. It’s like never ending story.
The only way to get rid of this is going out running and dont half ass it, go 100% and repet until its gone. If you hold back your scared. You will probably panic at first but dont quit. The panic is your mind trying to stop you. And then you will win😊
Wow, I am constantly experiencing these symptoms and worrying about heart attacks and cardiac arrest - but I always put it down to it being part of panic disorder and general anxiety (catastrophic thoughts) rather than it being a phobia in itself
I feel no one understands me when I tell them about my cardiophobia especially doctors. they just look at me like I'm crazy
I'm in the same situation, I check my pulse all the time, I avoid things that can make my heart race, even walking. That's a horrible feeling and no one understand
Hey I have seen your comment on other video and let me tell you you are not crazy.Are you alive btw😂?
I have cardiophobia since a lot of people have been passing away from heart attacks since February 2023. I dont have pounding chest or pains but lightheadedness plus anxiety attacks sometimes. Taking homeopathy as a relief but haven't found much relief yet.
Been struggling from 3 years
I have been struggling from 3 months
Hey!Thanks for this,im currently goign through this at the moment,it only started a week ago and im really keen to nip it in the bud!!💗💗💗
Hello Cherelle! Can you do a video about your journey with brain tumour phobia? I have it and it makes me nervous and stressed alot of the time. I have had cardiophobia before it horrible. Thanks! 😊
Great stuff. I had heart disease when I was young, and that got fixed but later when I was 20 I had pericarditis and ended up in the hospital for many days. Since then I started getting worried with my heart and had 5 or 6 years of panic attacks. All that was sorted thankfully but there is still one last piece of the puzzle I can’t seem to solve :( Randomly, but more times when I stop running, I get a scary flutter in the centre of the chest only for a split second that makes you want to cough. Almost like you lose your breath for that second. Sometimes one straight after the other. Doesn’t last more than 30secs or so. I stop a bit and then carry on running or doing whatever I was doing. Had them laying down sometimes too. More recently had a bigger episode that I think triggered my anxiety to the point my heart went up and down like crazy and ended up calling the ambulance and did several ECGs blood test etc all fine. Ended stopping the gym with worry, and first day I went back(after nearly a month), as soon as I started my session felt one of them flutters, heart went from 90 to 145, palpitations, shacking etc. Had to stop the workout and was a waste. Now I’m not sure which way to go, as I done many ECGs, many blood tests too. All I can think is must be anxiety induced still, and I don’t know how to fix it for good
Hey. How are you doing today?
I've had those exact flutters that you speak of. I feel it in the chest and throat and it makes me cough. It raises my pulse, makes me sweat and I get a hot flash while I reach for my phone as a safety measure. It feels like a mini panic attack or like a tiger just jumped on me from a bush. I get them twice a week while sitting or when laying in bed and this has been happening for 2 years now. I'm scared of workout but I do it anyway, while keeping my pulse at reasonable levels. That said, it is still very limiting and anxiety inducing when it happens.
I don't know if it's the heart, but it certainly feels like it. If I'm not mistaken, Arrhythmias are actually common and occur in most people, even healthy ones. They can be observed in EKG. Or it could be some nerve firing in the chest and neck area ?
So far my method has been to accept it. To respect it. And to live with it. Trying to eat healthy and excercise a bit. I haven't started investigating further, as every time I do, I only get more anxious.
Please do tell if you happen find out something about this "flutter" thing.
@@shanbazall Hello, I have read that a heart flutter can be caused by anxiety. I have found it helpful reading the 'Health Anxiety Reddit' as this helps you wonder what your symptoms could be and there are others who have been through the same thing as you plus they are usually supportive.
I have experienced EXACTLY this and after running for a couple of years, I have completely stopped out of fear of this happening so basically im getting unfit coz im too scared to run.. Yet they say exercise is good for your heart! Ive had many ecgs and doctors tell me im fine but im not convinced coz i feel like other "normal healthy people" dont experience this when running.. This is the VERY reason I even landed on this video, and seeing your comment just now was like I wrote this myself😢@BrunoEnrique
@@candylacecakes5723 i know how frustrating this is. I have done all exams as well and a month ago I even did a CT Angiogram, and doctors confirmed my heart and cardiovascular system is all good. So at this point I think I just gonna have to live with it, as I was before. Some people still tell me this is anxiety induced, but who knows. I do know if I’m more stressed it happens more frequently. I also know generally doesn’t happen in weight lifting sessions or dancing. Happens more when running. Let me know if you figure anything out on this. All the best.
@@BrunoEnrique I deft will and let me just say im SO sorry you are dealing with this.. People who have never experienced this or have never had to deal with this have no idea how very real, very scary and very debilitating it is. I trust we will figure this out and live long happy healthy lives doing fun things like the fun people do 😄
I am 32 years male, I have overcome with the fear of cardiophobia in very short time maybe in couple of months after my first panic attack it shredded me in pieces.
it started like I see a video of a young man died of cardiac arrest and I was at the point of shivering day and night watching my pulse breathing issues and all other shit, height was when I was going through all this I didn't knew I was going through cardiophobia
So cut short coming to the healing process, I am strong believer in God and daily practice my Muslim religion, I came across over few verses in Glorious Quran about death which relaxed me to an extent all the symptoms started to vanish and the fear of death vanished totally, I have mentioned below may be that will help
Chapter 3:145
(No soul can die except without the permission of god at an appointed time).
Explanation of the verse means God has already decreed our time of death and certainly it will come that single moment we can't survive before that none can harm you so no point of thinking death 24/7, people stuck in this anxiety from years, I say if God has written 95 years of age for you and you have a death anxiety at 35 bro you are ruining your life
Quran
(4:78) Wherever you might be, death will overtake you even though you be in massive towers.
Third verse from Glorious Quran
Chapter 39:42
(God takes the souls at the time of their death, and souls of those that do not die during their sleep. Then He keeps the souls of those for which He has decreed death and releases the souls of others in morning for a appointed time. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought).
Explanation of the verse means we are dying daily in our sleep so there's no point of fearing death again god said there's a appointed time for death hence no point of thinking death daily and wasting precious time.
Other things which really helped me was walking alone in evening atleast 45 minutes and convencing myself that your heart is okay otherwise you wouldn't able to walk this much heart patients unable to walk, your mind need arguments to calm down, mind don't understand direct affirmation that you are okay.
Lastly I started watching few videos of people who are suffering from cancer and doctor told them they don't have much time, that really struck me that I have no diseases still I am overreacting and not appreciating the time God gave me to live and make myself and others happy.
At the end just don't keep constant focus on your heart.
Hey brother, can I talk to you in discord or telegram? I’m Muslim too going through this
Salam brother, did you also used roqyha for this???
Ive been trying exposure therapy for over a year and its done nothing to help. Im still just as worried about my heart as i was. The fact that symptoms are still there makes me stressed no matter how much exposure i do.
im also going through it trauma made my life hell i went to many doctors they said im completely fine but i was still afraid till yesterday it happened again i figured that its hopless to keep worrying so now i actually dont care i leave it to God i die or not it doesnt matter suffered enough u should focus on other things
I'm crying when listening all this i suffer for 3 years i went in cardiologist many times many echos or ekg and other everything is okay but chest pain still exist and make me feel so bad guys please help me
If your tests is ok then your chest pain maybe from chest muscle spasms and maybe from your anxiety
Stay safe dear 🙏
Cardio phobia has been my biggest challenge with health anxiety. I would put it above DP and DR personally, it has been the hardest one to overcome
Just thanks! ❤
I never had a panic attack in my life until little less than a year ago. I was smoking with a friend and I got a crazy bad panic attack, I realized my heart rate was 160 and rising (while laying down!) and I started to think to myself what If I died and where was I going to end up. When I started thinking about that I started to have what I can only explain as “hot flashes” if you know what hot flashes are then you know how scary they can be. Ever since then I’ve been trying to better myself and get rid of unhealthy things such as sugary foods/drinks, caffeine, drugs, alcohol, its now got to the point where it is hard to exercise or have my heart rate increased in any type of way that it starts to scare me.
Skipped heart beats every 30 secs , how do you get rid of them ive had them for 9 months every day and they drive me mad worrying about them
I’m currently going through this I’m peri menopausal and on a hormone patch and of course the side effects are heart racing so I’m currently experiencing cardio phobia gone to gp wore a heart monitor overnight dr says nothing to worry about but days later I awake with racing heart went to emergency room they ran several test said didn’t find anything I have a stress test and sleep study test scheduled this month anxiety and panic attack runs in my family I had this bad in my 20’s then miraculously got over it until last year when we lost my step son to suicide now I’m having health anxiety to the max trying to get it under control but finding it very difficult thinking of maybe trying some anxiety medicine but don’t like taking medicine because all the side effects the side effects give me anxiety praying God will get me through this and menopause any suggestions
It started with a massive panic attack…I did many panic attacks in the past, but this one really made my heart pounding like it wanted to get out of my chest. I was sure I was going to die, like 99% sure, so the experience terrified me. This episode happened a year ago, and now I’m back (since years) to exercice again…and believe me, it’s a struggle. I can’t drink even one glass of alcool now cause I feel my heart pounding, I take my pulse many times a day. At night ,I’m hyper vigilant and I can just feel my heart pounding. On the opposite, just the thought that I have a heart and it’s beating since I’m in my mother’s wound makes me anxious…I know it’s not logical thoughts but that’s my kind of anxiety.
I’m the same - it’s horrible
Even reading the word "heart" is somewhat triggering for me. But I don't think it is an illogical fear. And that is precisely what makes the fear of it so potent and a huge problem. Sorry if this is triggering but there is no other way to describe it. For me it is scary because there is "a lump of pumping muscle" inside of me that I have almost no control over. If it decides to go crazy or even stop, I can't help it. It seems to be out of my control.
I see my own heart, the thing that is keeping me alive, as a threat. It's sad. But this wasn't always the case. I wonder what changed along the way ?
Did you feel weird for a while after your massive panic attack? Because I had one too. And I haven't felt the same and i've been having dizziness and weird symptoms like fatigue every day
@@JessicaMacLeod-ew5be that massive panick attack turned my world around for a year and a half. Now, I’m medicated with anti-anxiolytique, the smallest dose and it’s a game changer. I did therapy and all, but at the end, medication really helped…That massive panick attack was the starting point of a lot of symptoms (that, of course, I though were related to health): palpitation, muscle spasms, fear of being alone and die, paranoia, dizziness, aura in the vision, muscle tension, throat spasm, hyper awareness, toc…fatigue too…being on edge constantly (even during my sleep) is energy draining.
The feeling the heartbeat all over your body is so true smh even in my ears/head. Being scared of even standing up or using the restroom 🚽 because the heart will pound smh stairs or exercise a no. Its so freaking dumb and scary 😞
Going through it right now, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations and dont forget the dizziness accompanied by that sick feeling thats hard to explain.
I am going though rhat, exactly how you describe it!!! My heart is skipping beats all day and it freaks me out every time , please help me
For me the anxiety really impacts my sleep due to ectopics while sleeping. Any thoughts about managing sleep anxiety?
Can you please reply to me?.. my health anxiety started about me checking about me getting a anxiety attack and i started to worry and googling.. ever since i thought i have OCD, anxiety, depression,brain tumour,now i m believing in i will have psychosis because this self talk i do.. i notice that and i feel i will end up talking to me forever without my concious.. i m worried i couldn't stop my self talk.. what should I do? Therapists here say it's just anxiety but i m not anxious.. i just keep self talking that i m ok
It’s normal buddy.
Please do a video about bowel issues and health anxiety.
How to reach you? I really need some of your suggestions
Please reply and help me... I am stressed and suffering from health anxiety and numbness in my stomach is killing me. My doctor said don't be afraid but i think you only can understand my problem.
It all started for me when a young boy in my neighbourhood died of an heart attack but that night it really messed me up i started thinking that something like that could happen to me at any given moment too which led to me having constant anxiety about it i started googling everything which made it even worst id have panic attacks and i would end up at the hospital when i would get the results i would be happy that everything was fine but since it was the pandemic i couldnt leave the house very much which made it so much more worse it would be constantly on my mind 24/7 it always made me feel like i was going to die so id find more things that were wrong with me to distract myself from the heart but id eventually end up back there anyway its been almost 4 years now its gotten better but now i get it only when i am about to sleep my heart rate goes up and i feel like somethings wrong so i am avoiding sleep i just want to sleep its so bad i wish there was jusf a switch to elevate anxiety
Yeah I am still going through same and afraid to exercise too...I am afraid every minute of the day that my heart isnt strong enough and might stop,when I get skip beats I freak out even after test, the assurance only last a day and the next day I am back to the obsession.
Mine started with a huge panic attack caused by my so many gut issues and ever since I just can't help it...I feel like I get more than 10 heart attacks a day with the arm pain and recently I stopped trusting my BP monitor and went to get a smart watch, now I feel I can't trust the smart watch and need to get another BP monitor....just can't help but worry😢
I feel all of this. It’s absolutely soul destroying 😢
Better not to use these smart watch etc just accept and live it
I go through all the freaking time it took away my freaking life. Honestly, if I could pray to have anything is to have my life back I want to be a piece again. I want to go out. I wanna have purpose in life. I do not want to be incarcerated in my freaking mind.
Hey I really need your help I had abnormal ECG at the ER (T wave inversions & Sinus Tachycardia) but keep in mind I was at a panic state of mind and fidgeting around also get ectopic beats during panic. I was sent to see a Cardiologist to perform a stress test and a echo for my heart both came good but I still obsess over the thought that I had a abnormal ECG any tips ?
ECG isn't massively reliable it can be off and sinus tachycardia is not an issue just means heart was lightly high. A 48 hour ECG tape would show anything. I did a 48 hour ECG and it came back borderline, referred to speciliast and he said I wouldnt have referred you at all, unless you have Afib or something obvious its likely anxiety
@@PJOC31 Hey thanks yeah I ended up having 3 more ECGs and a 72 hour monitor and those all came out good. But the one thing I struggle with is being scared of the high heart rate. I just think that panicking for a long time like when it becomes more than a hour it’s dangerous because the heart isn’t getting any time to come back down to normal bpm is there any advice you can give me on that ?
Oh, my god, i'm going through this too I had abnormal e c g as well and that said incomplete right bubble branch block Borderline and rightward axis 😢 Scared me to shit But they told me to ignore all of that that my ECG was normal. I just don't get it if it's normal. It shouldn't say any of that at all
@@DylanBatuse4728 my HR goes upto 170 bpm for no reason just sitting there but its anxiety. Your heart can stay high for many days without damage.
It's really sounds like my own story. I am severly going through this since past 2 years. I spent most of my time watching videos n condition getting worse. The thought never goest out of my mind.. Since awake till bed time. Unable to concentrate on my Job.. Daily routine work... Always feels heaviness in left side of chest n arms.
How do I contact you??
i am so so convinced i have heart failure right now. so so fucking scared
How are you now
@@hi-vj2uz comeptlely okay. I was in a state of extreme emotional stress and I had a psychotic break. My body was definitely tired and i was defintily faint with chest pain and breathing issues but it was not heart disease. ssris have eliminated my physical symptoms entirely
I had the same situation when the doctor told me I had mild stenosis in right carotid. This was my trigger. I started having cardiophobia, thinking my arteries will getting blocked. I had tachycardia and palpitations you know why? Because I started with menopause symptoms too. 😂 Everything was related to my hormones imbalance. After received the proper treatment, I feel better now. I lose weight and my cholesterol levels were back to normal. 🙏🏼❤️
Did you also suffer with your blood pressure? Because that's my issue with cardiophobia and the fast heartrate
How are you now what’s your heart Rate like
I became obsessed taking my blood pressure. Then if it was high I would then stress to take it and it was high because I was stressed.
Hi Cherelle ! Cn you please do a video about muscle spasms and tightness in calf muscles...I am so scared of ALS..my left leg feels very wierd when i walk slowly but when i do brisk walking the tightness is gone!
She has done a couple, check on her channel :)
@@ameliamercer3924 thanks!🥰
did you or anyone ever have their arms/hands go purple? I feel like an intense pressure in my arms and my hands will turn purple. Dr.s keep saying it's capillaries contracting and act like it's no big deal. It's rather alarming to me though
Surely a test that actually visualises your coronary arteries is the best way to convince someone any chest pains is not angina or a heart attack ?
A full angiogram where they put tube into an artery in your groin or arm and then inject a dye into the coronary arteries is best but has a tiny risk . Therefore, a CT angiogram where a dye is injected into a vein in your arm and outlines the coronary arteries is a good compromise as it's about 95% accurate, so only a tiny chance of missing something .
I have anxiety 1 week ago and I need help because when I check my pulse I am nervous and when it nervous and I will search on google and that leads to a panic attack and I will cry suddenly because I thought I was gonna die
You’re not gonna die. Don’t take beta blockers and anti-anxiety medicines.Believe me You’re not gonna die.If you stress yourself over and over again then doctor will prescribe you anti-depressive medicine which is poison for our body.Just believe me you’re totally fine and stop this thinking nowwwww
I’ve had this for 30 years.
I have been struggling with heart palpitations for the last 10 years and I tell you its not fun at all... I went to the doc a couple of times and they always tell me im fine 😂
I get them especially when i work out.
Do you have them 24/7?
Me too!
I’ve been dealing with this for over a year. It started after a bad experience on cocaine (I know taking drugs is stupid) and my heart was beating out of control. In the days following I still had palpitations and started googling my symptoms convincing myself I did permanent damage. Eventually I went to the hospital and had some tests done all came back fine but ever since then I’ve been crazy obsessed with my heart. There’s been times when it’s gone away and then came back 10 times worse. I’m getting better at living with it but it’s hell
I can relate to this. I had a bad experience on weed, and it triggered my health anxiety off.
Stay strong ❤
@@Mr__Nobody_same with me
This is me , I am her 😢
Heart rate 120 all time
theres nothing wrong except your crazy I VE JUST had a heart attack and had to have open heart surgey its been about two months IM push mowing my yard riding my bike and dont understand your worrying your wasting your lives
Definitely my biggest fear, especially because I have heart palpitations. It's so difficult to accept the feeling and to accept the thought that yes, your heart can palpitate daily even if it's healthy. But I’m far better than I used to be thanks to therapy ❤️🩹
Hi
My also same problem I can feel you how age is your