To go to A & E?

[AlwaysAnxiousAnnie]

For some.time.now I've had major anxiety about my heart due to an episode last year of very bad heart palpitations, lasted hours and was so scary. It was like my heart was so out of rhythm. I went to A and E and they said it's anxiety, I've had numerous ECG, I've had a 24 hr heart monitor. They said they found nothing of concern just ectopic beats and and atrial thud. Apparently this is no cause for concern. So I was discharged from cardiology. I regularly have heart palpitations, chest pain, dizziness, breathlessness. Again it's anxiety apparently. Alas, I have developed this cardiac anxiety.
Anyway, tonight after studying up after dinner, my heart out of no where just started beating so hard and so fast in my chest. It felt like it was going to explode. Straight away I panicked, and then tried to calm myself down. I've so ce managed to calm myself but I heart beat feels all over the place. No pain or anything else. Its new Year's Eve and A&E will be busy. My DH is not very happy with me telling me not to go because it's all in my head. I've convinced myself.i won't see morning or at the very least my heart is about to give up very soon. Now I'm in this spiral of death anxiety of I could drop dead and be dead by this next time year and no one is believing me about my heart problem...am I being unreasonable to want to go to A & E and get checked out or ring 111 at th very least.. or am I just being dramatic, an anxious mess. The more I'm panicking the worst it's getting but I wasn't panicking when it first started this evening.

It’s a shame they don’t have any pills for empathy/understanding. Please go elsewhere, this post it obviously not meant for you.

Please take your ton foil hat off and provide evidence of the excess death rate.

Bisoprolol lowers your heart rate its prescribed for the physical symptoms of anxiety but not actually for anxiety. If your nervous about taking the Bisoprolol would you feel better taking a half dose first to see how you get on there safe to cut in half or even quarters. I have health anxiety and anxiety around medication so I always start on a really low dose, like what you would give a toddler to test it first before I take the actual dose. My drs have always been fine with this

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OP I was just like you this time last year. Then I suddenly realised that some people very close to me were being controlling assholes and that I couldn't stand it any longer. I contacted them in writing and told them the game was up and I wouldn't stand for it.

<i>then<i> I went to A&E and told the doctor at A&E that I was in an abusive relationship.

<i>then<i> I told everybody else I knew in my whole life.

Then the assholes people cut contact with me. Extraordinarily, my health has been much much better ever since.

Good luck there. I totally get why you are not taking the drugs.

I'm not the one planning on going to a and E on new year's Eve!

I honestly done need this..

For scare mongering. OP has had tests. She doesn’t have a blood clot as that would’ve been picked up on previous tests. She hasn’t any heart problems.

She has severe health anxiety. You do realise people can die from mental health issues when they feel it’s the only way out? So adding to this poor woman’s worries with your tin foil hat bullshit just isn’t helping.

I stand by what I said, respectfully fuck off. (Possibly back to twitter or some other edgelord website.) twat.

To be fair, I have a severe MH disability and I agree with @widowtwankywashroom . Meds have saved my life probably. I don't have much patience with people who don't follow medical advice.

I appreciate OP is scared but she needs to just take that pill and next time it's due take the next one etc.

A second and it's done.

Do you honestly think this is in any way helpful to write on a post of someone struggling with health anxiety. What op is describing is completely normal and very common and always has been. Iv had all the symptoms op is describing for years well before covid and the vaccines

Op, I get where you are coming from as I've had horrendous health anxiety since my dd1 was born in 2019. It started when I felt a raised lymph node (that had been there years but I cooked it up to be lymphoma, carried on through to finding a breast lump that I panicked was cancer and turned out to be a fatty lump, to my new one of heart problems,

I was prescribed 50mg sertraline which was amazing and I came off in July as I felt that I didn't need it anymore. Then around the beginning of November dh and I were in bed watching tv and out of nowhere my heart started thumping in my chest for about 4 seconds, never felt it before and it scared the life out of me. I started worrying about my heart and went back to my GP and explained what had happened and he said palpitations are very common and can happen for no reason whatsoever, and put me back on Sertraline.

A few weeks ago I shared a few bottles of wine with a friend (keep in mind I rarely drink now) and woke up the next day hangover free but my heart was racing, then I realised I'd been drinking on Sertraline, googled, and then worried about a serotonin overdose. Rang 111 who, like others have said here, sent me to urgent care because I was specifying heart problems. We sat and waited for about three hours - ECG and blood pressure later and o was fine, and the doctor told me alcohol blocks sertraline from working, so what I was feeling was anxiety.

I am now trying to move past worrying about my heart - I'm using a lavender sleep spray at bedtime and trying to focus my mind on other things such as what I'm doing the next day, holidays, anything. I've also downloaded a word search game on my phone so when I'm highly anxious, I try and distract myself with that during the night.

Like others have said, please take your medication - give it a go and don't worry about the side effects. You've been prescribed them for a reason.

The best advice I got from my GP was this:-

'If I told you that you had heart problems or blood pressure problems and needed tablets for the rest of your life, you would just take them. Taking medication for anxiety is exactly the same - it is a condition that is stopping you from being the best you that you can be, and medication can help with that's

A) She hasn’t gone so you’re speaking theoretically.
B) All the drunk idiots deserve to be there though but someone struggling doesn’t?

I'd have more sympathy with the drunks tonight

What is your problem

I don't have a problem

@Differentstarts It's NYE, most people have been at the sauce so of course they'll talk daft and empathise more with drunk people.

So then why are you being so cruel to someone struggling with their mental health

I suppose the difference is, those drunk idiots are actually there for something A&E can solve (rightly or wrongly), a bumped head from stumbling over, a split lip from a bar fight, a cut hand from a broken bottle. Although I totally appreciate it’s a nightmare for A&E with drunk people on nights like tonight and people should be more careful, all of those “drunk idiots” are actually in A&E because they need A&E help and A&E can help them.

OP doesn’t. They have the tablets to help themselves in the house, and they have already been checked over.

My heart absolutely is with OP and it is horrendous having such extreme anxiety, but it’s not an A&E issue

Someone who has been prescribed medication, but refuses to take it???
Why would you not take the medication if it was going to help, unless you wanted to stay in that state?

@widowtwankywashroom its people like you who make.peole likee.feel ashamed and embarrassed. I do feel embarrassed and ashamed of myself for having to seek advice and yes reassurance from starters on the Internet because what does that say about sad boring little life that I have to come on here because I genuinely have no one else. Opinions are always welcome but not when you carry it on. You've said.ykurnliece so if you've nothing else nice to say today then don't.

Because taking new medication when you have health anxiety is terrifying she's not doing it on purpose its part of the illness

I understand. Trust me I want to.take.it..i know I need to take.it but the fear just stops me.

OP do you think there is anything anyone on here can say that might persuade you to try the medication?

But being nice isn't going to get you over this is it??
But I'll bow out as you clearly aren't interested in getting help.
Like I said get a hobby, knit a jumper, learn the piano.

Makes me so sad as I remember feeling like this too about taking them :( it’s literally terrifying.

Also don’t explain yourself to any of the idiots here x