Hey, I have a pretty long history of hypochondria, but just recently after a panic attack in the very early morning after a night of heavy drinking (caused by believing I had an ulcer, due to heartburn), i've been scared that I have severe heart problems. I had palpitations years ago, and had an ekg and an echo, both normal. Then today I had an ekg and a chest x-ray, both normal. I am scheduled for an echo on monday.

Lately i've had some feelings of shortness of breath, probably not really shortness of breath, just a smothering feeling, very very instantaneous pains in my arm, neck, back, or chest. Those freak me out the most, even more than my sometimes lingering chest pains. Just a dread in my chest. I also have frequent palpitations.

I've got a severe fear of dying of a heart attack. All day long I am nervous or have some sort of fear of something. It gets worse at night because I have a fear of being alone upstairs sleeping and dying while i'm sleeping, so usually as I lay in bed, I work up my anxiety more and more. It's a terrible cycle.

I was wondering if anyone else had twitches that felt as if they were in their veins. In your arms, neck, or back. My heart also twitches sometimes, or, what feels like my heart. Probably just the chest muscles.

Does anyone else feel this? Is this all anxiety? Yeah the tests coming back normal helped, but i'm still having a tough time shaking this.