Anxiety or something else?

[Anonymous]

Two days ago I had either the biggest anxiety attack in my life, or something is fucked up severely with my body.

I was woken up out of my sleep with severe tight pain in the middle of my sternum, which slowly died down and maintained a painful but bearable pressure. I quickly felt my body get a little weak and felt pain in my back, but then that all subsided as well. My stomach started to hurt a bit along with the pain in my chest, and it became a little harder to breathe. I went to the hospital on account of my girl who thought I was having a heart attack, and they did bloodwork, xrays, and an ekt, all coming back with negative results which they released me with confidence that it wasn't a heart related problem. It's been 2 days now, and I still feel my chest hurting slightly every once in awhile. I felt a 'swooshing' feeling in my chest last night, and today my heart has been pounding like crazy.

Did I just suffer a massive anxiety attack, and am still recovering? Or should I go back for a second opinion? I'm only 22 for god's sake.. there's no way I'm having a heart attack.

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It turned out to be a massive anxiety attack and I have to go on meds and seek therapy for it. Guess thats better than organ damage.

[Thatweirdone_]

Anyone at any age can have a heart attack so being 22 doesn't change that
And it might have been
I get panic attacks too but mine I ussually shake and cry and I'm scared of everything
I've never had any chest problems with it
Maybe go back to the doctors and explain what's going on because your lungs and heart are very delicate organs

[Asker]

I did, and they ran a bunch of tests to see if my heart suffered any cellular damage, did an EKG test to monitor my heart rate, and even did an x-ray to see if my heart was enlarged or if there was anything congenital, and all of it came back either negative or normal.

[Thatweirdone_]

Check your lungs I guess

[Asker]

turned out it was a massive attack and i have to go on meds for it

[BellePepper]

I think you should be seeing a doctor about this.

[Asker]

Well, I went to the ER and they said that my heart isn't damaged, and that they didn't know what caused it since the blood work came back negative for damage and the EKG came back normal, so I honestly don't know where to even begin with a doctor at this point.

[BellePepper]

Wow thanks for including that in your original post. So useful.

[Asker]

and thank you for telling me to go to a doctor after I already went to a doctor.