I am a 28yo female that is having problems trying to figure out my problem. Once I was driving and all of a sudden my hands and feet started tingling, palpitations I became dizzy, short of breath, chest pains, and I started hyperventilating. Fortunately my cousin was with me. We stopped at the nearest ER and after they calmed me down, the doctor automatically assumed it was anxiety. He did no test or lab work, he just shot me in the behind with vistaril, wrote me a prescription for it, and sent me out the door!!!! So the "attacks" became more frequent. I have palpitations all day. Also I go day to day not feeling "right". It seems like everything is unreal, or Im living life in a haze!! I am having appropriate conversations, and doing all the right things, how?......I dont know. Its like Im on auto pilot! It also seems like I have developed a light sensitivity!! I went to the doctor, she did an ekg, it was fine,but she also put me on a 24hr holter monitor. I showed some pvs and pacs and some round of tachycardia. So she sends me to a cardiologist. He now has me on a 10day holter. Ended up going back to my primary because I had developed insomnia, she ordered me ambien, and she gave me the trial of lexapro because of course she thinks I have anxienty AND depression! Took one pill and never took another because it made me feel psychotic!! The cardiologist's nurse called me 3days ago and told me they wanted to start me on metoprolol. Now I feel palpitations all day long. And I am starting to have chest pains. I don't have an echocardiogram schedule until next week!!! Im still not getting any sleep because when I go to sleep, I wake right back up with palpitations and my heart skipping beats. While Im asleep and I have them, my fight or flight response kicks into over drive and I find myself standing up in the middle of the floor!! I am terrified!! Im not ready to die!! What could be wrong with me!!?????
Samantha