Severe Anxiety Gas/Burps/Heartburn

[thewes]

I am having extremely debilitating anxiety right now. Mild chest discomfort but I focus in on it so much that it becomes unbearable. I am always aware of my heartbeat and like above I focus in to it where it just drives me insane. I am expereincing undescribable levels of discomfort and I just dont understand whats wrong with me. My heart rate throughout the day is 90-100 bpm resting, and it shoots up even when I do simple tasks such as walking. Ive been to a cardiologist and they did several tests and said everything was there and in working order but my pictures were "blurry" so that definately just increased my anxiety 10 fold. A long with this, I was told to wear a hear monitor for a month which did nothing except increase it even more, and I did not even wear the monitor in the end. The strangest symptons though are just constant vibrations or movements in my intestinal area, bad heart burn, bad gas, and a feeling like I have to burp but just cant. Im hoping that my heart is fine and the feelings are just from my focusing on it too much, but I just dont know. Can anyone relate to this? Its been 3 months and I cant even sleep anymore.

[Daddyoil]

I can be feeling great one minute then out of nowhere a symptom comes. Tonight is was a sudden rush of tingling (not sweating) heat, like heat that comes with light head. Mostly in my head, this heat. Then shortly after the burps started, the bad ones that meant business, a real unhappy situation down there somewhere. My stomach began to feel tight then terribly uncomfortable, like I could not hold food, and I started fighting feelings of vomiting while the burps got worse. Some farting too. I took 3 Ativan and felt better in good time. Now very hungry,

[Mannyworks]

well, i have read almost everyones comments. Eyes are burning and has kept my mind busy and a bit relaxed knowing everyone has been or going through the same things i have gone through. Ive been fighting this Anxiety and Panic Disorder for quite sometime. When they first came along was when i was honorably discharged from the Military. I was on paxil (raw form) and i had real bad side effects. I just had the anxiety but the side effects were horrid and it felt like someone was running a prickly cable through my brain. It was horrible but i eventually weened myself off of them. That was around 1998 up until 2002. Then i was somewhat back to normal. Then from there i went through a divorce, father passed, and re-married on top of that. So, physically and mentally i have not had any rest. Now going through a second divorce and my stress levels has been at its peek. Between my marriages i started getting heart palpitations and i went to a cardiologist and they did nuclear test, ekg, holter, and had a heart cath done. Everything came back negative. Second cardiolgist was upset because i should have not had the heart cath and there were other evasive ways of doing it. So, aside all that. I went through a meltdown and my panic disorders and anxiety came back full fledge. I was waking up with hot burning flashes going through my neck up into my head. Like surges of hot flushing. I had real bad anxiety and panic sudden doom feelings. I recently quit my job due to the stress and had to go to the ER twice. So, i let that go and some what came down from all that stress. So, here recently i had a burning feeling sensation arise from the middle of my neck and i felt something coming up and felt it up into my center of my head like internally. I felt disoriented and irritated. I had them before so this would be my third time. It feels like my neurotransmitters are trying to fire correctly but i causes a feeling of displacement and sensory overload. I also get this catch of breath feeling. I will be just standing there and like something catches my breath and i feel a little displaced.  I am still a bit out of it right now. Not sure what to do anymore.

[Dawnie01]

I feel your pain. I go through the same stuff. Not fun!

[Dawnie01]

Hi everyone! I am new to this  so bare with me! I have been having anxiety for about 6 months now and I have the left arm pain, chest pain, tingling, rapid heart rate and sometimes the chills. Sometimes I feel gassy a lot too. I have had a halter monitor on for a month back in January and everything came back normal. I have  a cardiologist appt. soon.  I get really scared when I have my episodes. People around me don't understand when I tell them I feel weird, they don't understand. The list could go on and on. It just really drives me crazy when I feel like this and I don't want to go on medication!!!

[JonnyTombstone]

When I was a kid it was always hard for me to sleep because my chest felt funny and I thought my heart was going to stop. Long lapse into the future I have been just fine not taking any medication some gas here and there just fine. Feb the 13th I drank an energy drink and ate a Reese's Fast break for breakfast. I went to my grandmothers house was was fine sitting on her couch. I stood up to go get her some groceries and felt like I was about to pass out. Everything started tingling and blackness was surrounding me. This has happened to me a few times Ive passed out once in my life when I was a teenager. I jumped out of bed and took a big stretch and hit the floor. So this was normal. Town is about 6 miles from my grandmothers house. The whole trip I felt like there was something wrong my chest was beating like crazy belches started I couldn't stop belching non stop. I also felt dizzy. By the time I got to town I had to stop at the ER. I thought I was having a heart attack. They took me straight back and hooked me up to the monitors. I am 32 years old now. My blood pressure was high my heart beat was going crazy. They gave me a pill said it would lower my blood pressure but my heart would still palpitate through they day. The next day i felt fine. My wife and I were going out of town for the weekend and have some fun. We didn't have fun. We got down the road about 20 or so miles and I felt dizzy and fearful. I felt like the doctor had missed something. I needed help. My wife tried to calm me down. She told me to breath in my nose out my mouth. She was trying to tell me it may be a panic attack. Well it calmed down except the belching. I had so much gas build up I could have inflated a hot air balloon. She would rub the back of my neck while I was breathing and it would calm me right down. I felt normal for the rest of the day. The next day we went shopping at an outlet mall. 3 stores in we get to old navy. I was fine until I started having a full blown panic attack in the store. My chest was beating like crazy I couldn't get enough breath. I would try to talk but it would felt like i just ran 100miles and couldn't catch my breath. All I could think about was running out of the store and screaming. I tried breathing through it and it calmed me down some. My chest was still thumping but the sheer panic and fear was gone. We decided to take a break and go eat. We get there and sit down. I felt hungry so I ordered a big meal. I ate one shrimp and here comes the same symptoms back. I couldn't eat another bite. By this time I was certain I was just having panic attacks. So I ordered a few beers to mellow out. It helped. I still didn't feel like going out anywhere so we stayed in the hotel and relaxed in the pool.

On the way home I couldn't drive I was dizzy and fearful. I pulled over and started my breathing exercises. The wife started to massage my neck and I got the ability back to drive. When we got home there was a ton of snow on the ground and I went to bed. Kids wanted to play in the snow so i decided screw it I am going to have some fun. I played for awhile running around up and down the hill sledding. (Doing this after a few days of thinking I was having a 3 day long heart attack) I felt fine, I was laughing having a good time. This confirmed I didn't have anything medically wrong with me that I was fine. All except the constant belching. It would not let up. For a week I lived with the belching and my chest was still painful and i was worried maybe something is wrong. I go back to the ER. The ER doctor did a HIDA scan to check my gallbladder. He also did blood work EKG urine sample, stool sample, ultrasound of my spleen, gallbladder, aorta. Everything came back normal and told me to follow up with my doctor. I go to my doctor and he checks my heart says I am fine but he wanted to check my results for the few ER visits and my charts from my previous doctor. My previous doctor decided to go back to school so I had to find a new one. This added to the stress. Anyways he prescribes me a muscle relaxer, prilosec, and an Antihistamine. He never said it was anxiety but I am pretty sure it is after reading about everyone having the same symptoms as me. I noticed when I picked up my prescription the antihistamine is for anxiety also. I have not been taking the relaxer or antihistamine because I didn't want to feel drowse. I have been taking the prilosec and it has been helping with my gas. Yesterday I ended up having another panic episode filled day. I ate lunch and jumped in my car. Soon as I started to relax it hit me. When I got about a mile from my house I felt normal again. My safe haven. Went to pick up my grandmother so she could spend a few nights with us I ended up going full blown panic attack. I stomach started knotting up, breathless, belching, numbness, and the pure feeling of FEAR. Soon as I got home I started taking my antihistamine. So far so good. I haven't felt drowsy or anything from it. I can't wait for my doctor to do a full panel of tests so I can feel better and have him tell me its anxiety.

What triggers me is the What if's. My chest will feel funny or start belching and I am like What if the doctor missed something. What if something changed. I feel so much better reading that people are having the same problems that I am not the only one with a screw loose. I would not wish this on anyone. Luckily my wife is going to school for psychology. She tries to psychoanalyze me all the time.

Best thing I could fine is do something to take my mind off of things. DRIVING does not help. If I stay busy enough where I can't look up for a second I am fine. Once I get to the point where I can relax it happens more. Breathing helps to keep it from going out of control if I can catch it in time.  

Oh and when I was a teenager I had the full heart tests done and they found nothing. I was fine until just a few weeks ago. I am unsure what caused it. I wish I knew I would destroy it happily

[capurafarol]

Hi Jocey38, thanks for your words.  I have read this blog over and over again and most people talk about their symptoms, which are the same as mine, and what meds they're on, but no one actually has come up with hard core solutions as to what is causing all of this and what can be done.  You have lived with this for 20 years you say, I pray that I don't have it like that.  I want my normal life back.  I'm afraid to play basketball and jog for fear of having this feeling inside me cause a heart attack.