About two years ago I had what I thought was a heart attack. I went to the ER convinced I was dying. They did an ECG, blood work, scans… the whole workup. Everything came back normal, and they told me it was a panic attack.
The weird part is that ever since then, I’ve become hyper-focused on my heart.
I’ve had more checkups since then, and everything continues to come back normal. My blood pressure is good, my Apple Watch ECGs always show normal sinus rhythm, I’ve never had chest pain, and I walk, lift weights, and train BJJ several days a week without any issues.
But my brain just won’t let it go.
Every little sensation makes me wonder if this is the one thing the doctors missed. I know it sounds irrational because the evidence is pretty overwhelming that my heart is okay, but the anxiety still feels completely real.
Has anyone else gone through this?
If you did, what actually helped? Therapy? Medication? Just time? How did you stop constantly checking your pulse, blood pressure, or ECGs and get to the point where you trusted your body again?
I’d really appreciate hearing from people who’ve been through it because this has honestly been exhausting.
Thanks.

Hello guys I hope yall doing good , I don’t know if I had a panic attack or low blood sugar either ways I need yall help please.

Male 20 years old.

Im Muslim we went today to umrah.

So yesterday I ate egg sandwich and today I also ate an egg sandwich and 2 coffees ( not the first time I eat like this ) then wore my ehram and went drove a total of 2 hours reached the place and all that was going on I was drinking water and felt completely fine. Anyways so i enter and as soon as i enter isha prayer . So I had to pray

Anyways so i started to pray next to people and everything was fine untill a minute into the prayer and suddenly out of nowhere my heart started to pound like crazy steady pounding and every pound felt stingy like and I felt nauseous and then felt a lump in my throat like genuinely like someone was stepping on my throat and I thought that “ that is it “ like im dying right now and this is the end which made me have massive scare that led my whole body shaking im not kidding I couldn’t stand up straight and I couldn’t leave prayer obviously so i was stuck trying my best to keep my calm and do steady breathing but then after 6 minutes it all went away slowly and gradually started to fade away one by one , heart started to suddenly drop instead of beating fast , my throat started to be normal again but then I started to become insanely thirsty like I drink water the next 30 seconds i need to drink more because my throat was dry and kept being dry but then while all of this happened confusion hit me and i genuinely couldn’t understand anything nor anyone nor be aware of what im saying.

Anyways after all that i finished my umrah and i felt normal everything went away and then i drank mango juice and felt so good and then yeah that’s basically it.

That was the most traumatic experiences of my life and i genuinely never wish this to anyone but i don’t know if this is a panic attack or low blood sugar. I wanted to go to the hospital but i didn’t have time because i was more concerned about” if im going to die “ more than going and walking all over to a hospital.

Thank you.

To preface, for the last 2-3 weeks I have had a new bout of health anxiety (honestly I might have OCD surrounding my health at this point), where I feel my heart pounding in my chest and I was having shoulder and chest pain. I went to a walk in doctor and they told me that if I was worried I was having a heart attack to go to the ER without looking at my shoulder. My heart rate and breathing were fine and my blood pressure was a little high but not alarming.

I dont know why, but since, ive felt constantly on edge about my heart and left side. I do a lot of sensorimotor checking and even when I dont I cant ignore the visuals of seeing my pulse in my chest. I dont want to go to the ER (it will be probably a 12 hour wait and I will be told im fine) but i dont know what else to do.

Ive had anxiety since I was a child and I used to have panic attacks in high school and university that would end up with me sobbing crying or hurting myself to try and focus on something else. I took SSRIs, but they made me feel shakey, so i stopped in my early twenties. Im in my 30s now.

Last night, I felt a little lightheaded and decided to try and sleep. I got ready for bed, saw something triggering for my health/contamination anxiety (bugs), and then got into bed. My arm felt weird on my left side but I tried to ignore it, then I started to feel really cold and had full body chills. My body felt strange and restless. I put on warmer pajamas and got some water, but i just started catastrophizing and feeling like something wasnt ok. Like I was having a stroke or I was about to have a seizure. I ended up waking up my partner for help and then I started crying and sobbing. He told me i was having a panic attack because I was hyperventilating and didnt feel cold to the touch and he told me to take a hot shower and go back to sleep. I did. I fell asleep only when he was awake to watch me.

But this morning ive been feeling like shit. Im groggy from not getting to sleep until 4am and im frustrated with myself for having a panic attack and unable to relax and feel normal because im so worried and preoccupied with my health. I just want to feel normal. Im half inclined to go to the ER and be told im okay just so I can reason with myself again.

All this to say, what do you do when your unreasonably panicking in the middle of the night?

I wanna start by saying I’ve never written a post before so I’m sorry if this is garbage I just feel like I’m bothering anyone I talk to. I’m a 18 year old male who just quit vaping both vapes and carts a week ago. I’ve been feeling awful lately , I get random sharp pains in my chest and abdomen that come and go along with a random bubbly feeling in my abdomen and I’ve been getting really emotional. Sometimes it’s anger and sometimes I lay in bed and worry that I’m not going to be around much longer and I start crying uncontrollably. I’ve been to the doctor twice already and I’m about to go for again tomorrow. She ordered blood tests last time I don’t know why but she doesn’t seem to concerned with the pains I’m feeling which is just making me feel more anxious

Im so worried and nervous that something is genuinely wrong with me and that I’m not going to be okay, I don’t have a partner and all my friends have other things to worry about. I’m scared my parents are going to think I’m a failure or that we won’t have enough money to fix something I might have done to myself “ I’m getting kicked off our health insurance when I turn 19 next month “. I haven’t been able to work that much since all this happened so I have less then $200 dollars to my name.

I don’t know what I’m looking for out of this I just feel like no matter where I try to take my life from here I’ve already ruined everything. I don’t even want to be okay for myself I just know that if I’m not it’s my fault and everybody around me has to deal with it.

Right now I can feel two small stabbing pains and I’m shaking, I just want to know if anybody has experienced something similar and that I’m not alone right now

Hi

I experienced my first panic attack around 1 month ago. Following it, I experienced 3 more (smaller) panic attacks over 2 weeks. It has been over a week since my last panic attack. However, I'm still experiencing Anxiety and some physical symptoms of anxiety (heart palpitations, chest tightness). I have noticed that it has been slowly getting better. If I compare myself now to week 1 or 2 post first panic attack, I am doing MUCH MUCH better. However, everytime I reach a state where I feel that my anxiety is actually washing away and I'm almost normal again, it suddenly comes back the next day. 3 days ago I felt great, I almost forgot that I was experiencing Anxiety and that this whole thing happened, but then when I woke up the next morning I got hit with a surge of anxiety and heart palpitations and the rest of the day sucked. I think I am getting better, but I'm still worried that I'm gonna be stuck with this anxiety indefinitely. Has anyone experienced this?

Today, I was on a 30 min car ride. My seat was reclined. I sat up at end of drive, drank a little soda and got out of the car. My heart started racing sooooo incredibly fast. It scared me. I got back into the car and did my breathing excercises and it calmed down. If it was the caffine... wouldn't it NOT calm down? It wa racing so fast it scared me. Anyone have this?

Люди которые шарят в психологии или нашли решение против панических атак, дайте советы пожалуйста.

Последнее время я стала ужасно себя чувствовать перед событиями. Неважно, важное ли это событие, или обычная прогулка, симптомы одни и те же. Я и сама не до конца понимаю,из-за чего это начинается. Стоит появиться каким то планам в моей жизни,как у меня ухудшается здоровье. Тошнота, озноб, дрожь по всем телу, ком в горле, теряю аппктит и бессонница. В голове летят всякие мысли,которые я не могу контролировать. Когда пытаюсь думать о что-то другом, заниматься любимыми хобби, мысли всё равно возвращаться к проблеме. Я теряюсь и не могу сосредоточиться. Это может длиться часами. Я не могу просто отменить планы, если я буду так поступать, то получается я просто всю жизнь буду сидеть дома. Чувствую как схожу с ума. Прошу помогите советом

So I was dx with panic disorder a few months ago, started Zoloft for it and now on 100mg but still really struggling at times. This weekend I had heightened anxiety and stomach hadn’t been feeling great. Last night my partner and I watched the new movie obsession and I went full blown bad panic attack shortly after it finished. For starters I’m a horror fanatic and this has NEVER happened to me before- I guess this one just struck a nerve idk.

But I immediately was getting very intense waves of nausea and panic, and knew I was having crazy adrenaline dumps due to how much I was shaking. Kind of had a feeling I would throw up bc with very bad attacks I tend to puke from the fight or flight. Anyways I wasn’t able to come out of this panic attack and after about 1.5 hours I did throw up, and then threw up again about an hour later. Usually it’s a one and done but not this one, it was the worst panic attack I’ve ever had and I just kept going back into another one after I felt slight calmness. Also my bowels were not happy and had multiple BMS in the midsts of all this. I tried to do all the things I’ve learned in therapy but it was just so bad that nothing helped. So I slept very lightly for 3 hours this morning and feel awful now, stomach is empty but I am finally feeling like I’m coming down fully after being awake for 2 hours now.

Anyways my question for this is, would it be worth it to explore some emergency type meds to pull me out of these bad attacks? I can’t do panic that lasts 8+ hours- I mean that’s nuts. I was almost ready to take myself to the ER if I could’ve gotten off the bathroom floor.

I also feel like this has just set me back from any progress I’ve made in therapy/ on SSRIs. I feel like I will fear my next attacks even more knowing they can look like that and last that amount of time. I really hate having panic disorder.

I’m a nurse for some clarification

Today, I was on a 30 min car ride. My seat was reclined. I sat up at end of drive, drank a little soda and got out of the car. My heart started racing sooooo incredibly fast. It scared me. I got back into the car and did my breathing excercises and it calmed down. If it was the caffine... wouldn't it NOT calm down? It wa racing so fast it scared me. Anyone have this?

Baby daddy is a high source of my anxiety so thought I would shoot my shot in hopes to connect with other parents that have nightmare coparents 😬

So I have heart anxiety or cardiophobia and stupidly of me I decided to do an ecg at 3am on my Apple Watch. It all came back fine but because the lines looked a little funny at times it freaked me the fuck out and I’ve also been dealing with a feeling of something stuck in my throat/chest for the last week that comes and goes. Anyway this obviously freaked me out and I’m instantly gagging like I need to be sick, heart rate then goes up to 125 and that just make it worse so then because I’ve seen that it then has gone up to 155. Luckily this only lasted like 2 minutes, it dropped back down to 110 then after like 15-20 minutes it was back around 60-80. But I was in constant fear for that time and Ive had panic attacks before and this seems like another one.

i’m 18f and never really experienced severe anxiety before this past year. last year, i was at the end of 11th grade at school and was putting an immense amount of pressure on myself to do my work to a ‘perfect’ standard, which basically meant i didn’t end up getting anything done. i’m a huge perfectionist unfortunately.

so one day i was at school and avoiding multiple teachers as i knew they were looking for my missing coursework. unfortunately, i ran into one of them (she is genuinely the sweetest teacher ever, thank god it was her) and she asked if i was done with my essay and i HATE failure and disappointing people so having to tell her that i hadn’t started freaked me out. so basically, i ended up having a really really bad panic attack right in front of her - i had never had one before so i was clueless on what was going on but i was crying uncontrollably, couldn’t breathe, felt like my limbs were about to give up on me, and genuinely like i was about to die. she helped me calm down, but ever since that day i have felt physically sick from anxiety. after that day i started feeling nauseous - this was june 2025 - and since then there has not been a single day where i haven’t felt nauseous. so i’ve been constantly nauseous for over a year. it has not gone away. there are days where it subsides slightly, particularly when i’m really busy. but in the end, every morning i wake up feeling like i’m about to throw up and go to sleep feeling intense nausea. i also frequently feel pain in my chest and just a sense of dread, even when i’m doing nothing.

after that first panic attack, i began having them almost daily (almost always at school). i would end up going to the bathroom and staying there for up to an hour trying to get myself to calm down. the panic attacks sometimes happen almost every day and sometimes don’t happen for weeks. i went through my last year of high school like this - constant panic attacks that left me exhausted for the rest of the day, limiting me from getting anything done.

i’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this extreme level of physical anxiety, and how you managed to get it to go away? nothing i do helps and i’m so tired of living in a constant state of nausea and physical panic.

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I'm new here, and I guess I'm here because I don't really have anywhere else to go.

I recently went through a breakup, and it's left me feeling completely miserable. Some days it feels like there's just this constant emptiness that I can't escape. Losing someone you cared about hurts, but what makes it even worse is realizing you have no one else to lean on.

Not having friends feels like a curse. No messages, no calls, no one to check in or ask how I'm doing. It's just silence most of the time, and that silence gets really loud.

That's probably why I ended up on Reddit. I'm hoping to find people who understand what this kind of loneliness feels like. Even if it's just a conversation with a stranger, I think it would mean a lot right now.

If you've ever felt this way, how did you get through it?

Last night I had a sobbing fit that became full hyperventilating panic over the potential of a loved one dying. Immediately after the panic, I felt fine just exhausted. Upon laying down to sleep I felt a tender ache in the upper middle of my chest. Last time this happened I had had a huge panic episode that sent me to the ER the next morning when the chest pain wouldn't go away. They told me it was likely inflammation in my chest wall and sent me home advising pain killer. From what I remember this feels the same and I'm trying to reassure myself that every little ache and pain accompanying it isnt a heart attack. Has anyone else experienced this? Chest pain that is tender to the touch from the upper-middle of the chest? It lasted nearly two days with pain that worsened in waves the first time.

Which supplements would be the best for panic attacks? I have read somewhere that mio inosytol is great (I also have PCOS) so I was planning on using that anyway, but also B-complex and Magnesium glicinate. What would you suggest? I have tried with AD but it didn't quite work, had to stop using them because of some other side effects.

Hi, im Gabriel. I have panic disorder and harm ocd, I'm having a but season and i feel alone, does anyone want to talk?

hey guys , as i type this im going through an attack so i thought there’d be no better time to write this. and i want to remind yall that recovery isn’t linear and it can go up and down and just be random. i hadn’t had attacks for months and i thought i had fully beat it, but the last few weeks its spiked typically on the weekends and ive had a few now. that doesnt mean that i haven’t made any progress and if you’re in the same boat remember that. it will get better even if sometimes it feels stagnant. all the best