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is chest pain a sign of anxiety?

Stuck_In_The_Middle
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hi, can anyone tell me if chest pain can be a sign of anxiety? Just this morning I had a slight pain for a moment, and happened on a couple of other occasions in last couple of weeks. My brother had suffered severe anxiety attacks which resulted in him going to hospital as he thought he was having a heart attack.

I've noticed this has happened while im at work. Both yesterday and today im not having such a good day emotionally, even my husband could tell, asking me twice of im ok?  ive been feeling irritable the past 2 days, just the sound of people chatting around me gets on my nerves, and have been losing my patience with some work colleagues recently (had major argument a couple of weeks ago which I lost it at the person, this has never happened before).

im on antidepressants, not sure if I need them changed but im finding hard to go back to the doctor to talk about it.

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magenta21
Community Member
hi, I'm not a doctor, but I've been suffering from panic attacks and anxiety more than 10 years, I had pretty much every symptom and one of those is chest pains, sweaty palms, constant worries, pressure in my head (like pins and needles sometimes), pressure in my ears, nausea, hot and cold flushes, everything you named it! I hate to be in this situation, but every time I get out of it, with help of my family and medications, I'm actually now in a situation trying to make my husband understand that is really something that it's worrying and terrifying. Sometimes when people don't see the injury (like blood) they don't realise that you are in pain. So if your husband it's asking what's goin on? juts tell him the true, tell him in the best simple way possible. Seek for help on doctor and counselling, that can help you to start and try to canalize and realize why your body is reacting this way, why is triggering the panic attacks? I just found out that the separations of my parents stills affects me until today, that I'm a grown up women but had an long term effect. I'm new here so I hope you don't feel the only one suffering this hideous thing because I assure you, there is a lot of persons in the same boat ! All the best 🙂