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Q: Symptoms of a Mild Anxiety - Chest Pain And Light Headed

asked by: Neilson on March 26th, 2006

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Looking to see if anyone is in the same boat as myself. Let me explain...

I suffer from anxiety caused by cronic chest pain and the light headed, loss of balance feeling.

The chest pain is sporatic and comes and goes mostly while resting. I can be sitting or laying and I feel small pressure the size of your finger through different parts of the chest. Lasts from a few seconds to a min or so. I also sometimes feel weight on my chest for maybe 1/2 hour or so.

The light headed and/or loss of balance seems to come mostly when i`m interacting with someone or a group of people. It also happens sometimes when i`m with my family outside of our home ie: visiting, shopping.

I have never really had a panic attack or freak out. I sometimes feel weird, like I may be going crazy or something but I figure that is probably because I worry about having a heart problem from the chest pain.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone shares these symptoms.

Thx

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jeeperjo

replied on March 28th, 2006

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I have similar chest pain issues. Some mornings I wake up and there's so much pressure on my chest I can't take a deep breath. It'll take an hour or so for the pain to go away.

Other times during the day I get mild chest pain, like you describe, not covering a large area, but it quickly goes away, but comes and goes.

I know that I worry excessivly about heart attacks, stroke, etc when I feel that pain, and just like you have to ward off the start of an attack.

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