I am 18, of healthy weight, with no
history of heart problems, athsma, or even
hyperventilation. There is no history of
heart attack or heart failure in my
family. For the past five days I have
been suffering from extreme, constant pain
and tightening in my chest. The pain is
so severe that it is making it difficult
to breathe. When it increases (as it does
without warning), I also feel short of
breath and have collapsed. My neck
muscles and shoulder muscles are tight and
my chest feels like bands of metal are
being contracted around it. The pain
increases severely when I eat, drink or
swallow, and never goes away, just lessens
and spikes again.
I have never experienced such severe and
horrible pain and nothing I do will make
it go away. I have begun carrying a paper
bag around with me to breathe into so that
I don't feel so lightheaded, but the pain
won't stop.
My mother has 'anxiety attacks' that she
says last up to a month, and she suggested
that this might be the same thing. I do
have a tendency towards anxiety attacks,
but they usually last only ten minutes to
half an hour and are never painful.
Also, I have been on medication (paxil and
effexor) but have not taken either in the
past two months.
Please help me. I can't stop thinking
about the pain and I don't know what to
do. I feel like i'm having a constant,
admittedly extremely prolonged, heart
attack and i'm very frightened.
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Bek
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 206 Location: SA
Posted: 06-26-06 19:40pm
I have the same feeling, my pain does come
and go and I can go weeks without the pain
and then I can have it for weeks. My
pain is mostly in my neck and chest area -
below the colar bone.
I have xanax that I take when I feel like
my anxiety is getting out of control. I
am a very stressful person and worry about
the sillest things so I am trying to learn
how to take things as they come
