Hello-
i am sure a few of you recognize me, but others might not.
I have really bad anxiety and worry about my health like crazy.
Either way, like 2 days before christmas I got really sick with a horrible virus and then I started getting a little better and then christmas eve, my 3 year old daughter got severely sick and was taken over to urgent care with a temp. Of 105 degrees! They told me to give her tylenol and motrin and just to give it time and she would be better. Well she was sick for about 9 days with a moderately high temp. And then finally she began to get well. I go to college and she is in preschool. Right now we are on christmas break. My anxiety started to act up once I wasn't very busy with school and her school too. While she was sick, I felt very tense and I wasn't sleeping well. I noticed that I was upper chest breathing a lot. So much that my chest muscles became very soar. The muscles are not too tender anymore, but last night I woke up with a really bad achey throbbing my left arm. I was really scared because I thought about heart attack right away. I am 24 and pretty healthy besides this bad anxiety problem. Then I took some ibuprofen and it went away. Now I feel a little knawing shooting pain in my left breast near the sternum area. My arm was also tingling and had a pins and needles feeling too. My question is, could this be a pinched nerve from being so tense for so many days? Stress maybe? My aunt who has been an rn for about 20-21 years now and she is very smart, says it doesn't sound like anything serious to her. I go to her whenever I feel really anxious or upset. Should I consider it to probably be stress related? Any advice would be great! Thanks!!