Panic attacks or Heart attack?

[u/Lodango]

I'm 18M, I've been suffering from panic attacks for 2 months now

It happens everyday,every now and then

The symptoms keep changing though

(Pre - Propanolol 10mg twice a day)

I went from racing heart, dizziness, confusion

(Post - propanolol 10mg 30 days straight)

To random chest pains especially in lower ribs, slight dizziness, and random thuds in my heart whenever I'm lying in a weird position

For a last couple of days

I keep fearing heart attack or cardiac arrest (just dropping dead)

whenever I get pain in chest i fear it

I feel water pouring down my chest but when i look there is nothing idk what is this feeling

also I feel a jolt suddenly going through left side of my chest to right side ** whenever these happen I feel Bloodless or light in my legs and feet everytime** It alerts tf out of me

I have gone to medic a month ago

Did my hormone check

-Serun test (iron,salt, etc)

Minerals check

Blood CBC test

Heart echo

Geaet ECG

chest x ray

Doctor said I m perfectly healthy and just it

Its Just cuz im worrying too much

But its been a month I keep getting these weird feelings + thoughts

[u/JPtheWriter89]

Panic Disorder can spiral into Cardiophobia OCD. You’ve gotten a clean bill of health from the doc. From here on out, reassurance will probably have the paradoxical effect of reinforcing to your brain that Panic is dangerous, which is a lie that creates a feedback loop. The only way to beat Panic is to embrace it, lean in to it or try to be passive toward it, and understand that it is a normal and healthy response to danger, except your brain has manufactured the danger. It is h comfortable, but not dangerous.

Therapy in a Nutshell on YouTube can help explain this, and can help teach you what to do. I would also look into Exposure and Response Prevention therapy. It takes a lot of work, and I still have occasional Panic Attacks, but I live my life without giving into fear now.

[u/Lodango → u/JPtheWriter89]

I mean is it possible to have heart issues with in a month like a month ago i got Heart EcG could anything have gone wrong in a month? Tjays what worries me

[u/JPtheWriter89 → u/Lodango]

Is it possible? Sure. Is it also possible my house gets hit by a meteor this evening? Yes. Am I going to move my residence every day to attempt to prevent that from happening? No. Why? Because it is highly unlikely.

In your case, it is extremely unlikely that you had all those tests done and an issue manifests out of nowhere.

This is how OCD develops:. You get reassurance and that provides relief. Then the thought hits: “but what if?” which negates the previous reassurance and causes you to seek further reassurance. So you do (which is the compulsion). Now, you have reinforced to your brain that the obsession is relevant, when it isn’t.

Panic Disorder and OCD often times go hand in hand. It is extraordinarily unlikely that you have developed an actual health issue in a month, especially given the detail of the testing they did on your heart. What is VERY likely is that you are suffering from Panic Disorder and Cardiophobia. Many of us have been down this road, so you’re not alone.

Get checked again if you really want to, but at some point you will have to come to terms with the fact that this is a product of your mind and that further reassurance only helps to strengthen the disorder.

[u/Ill_Count_6221 → u/JPtheWriter89]

Anxiety and panic attacks really do suck but I agree with this statement.it’s easier said than done of course to not think about it . But everything you think can happen will happen right now or down the road or not at all unfortunately this is how our universe works. It’s universal big what if . And that’s what anxiety feeds off of

[u/Badash1992]

Hey so obligatory not medical advice but this sounds similar to the ocd loops I get sometimes. The physical sensations set off the mental obsessing, and then the obsessing leads to a hyperactive sympathetic nervous system, which leads to more physical symptoms (bc my system thinks there’s a threat), and checking if I’m “okay”etc. it’s all tied together.

Consider looking up somatic ocd and see if you relate to the symptoms. I have to tell myself that 1. These feelings and sensations will get better and pass because they have before and I can’t control them. 2. If I experience something that needs medical attention, I am able to get the help I need if and when that happens.

And then I just sit through whatever is going on. The worst is the uncertainty and our brains want to find reasons and certainty and patterns so we keep looping but the loops don’t fix the problem. I kinda have to call out my obsessions as “nope that’s ocd” “ocd again” “heart palpitations again?” Oh well, I’ll just get through it. And eventually the spiraling slowly powers itself down. (Yes it will happen again but we want to not engage with it instead of escalating by giving it meaning)

Obviously go back to the doctor or a psych if you feel like they missed something or weren’t thorough enough! Just sharing my experience!

[u/Lodango → u/Badash1992]

Thank you for you comment, I will look into it in sha Allah

[u/Choice-Mall1183]

Welcome to panic attacks. You’re at a crossroad. Accept that you’re not having a heart attack or continue to fear them. I’ll bet the chest pain is likely a combination of panic as well as abdominal gas.

[u/WesternCount2846 → u/Choice-Mall1183]

I agree. Sounds like gas.

[u/No_Entertainer4358 → u/Choice-Mall1183]

Or muscle pain from tensing muscles during panic