Is it Anxiety Or Something Else? Please suggest

[betly]

Hi,
I need some desperate help. Since last 6 months I started getting sharp pains in my right hand side and aches in my groin. After a scan of my side and testes I was told there was nothing wrong. The pains went on for a year and then stopped.

In July of this year I went to a & e as I was experiencing pains in my chest.

I was admitted overnight and in the morning after being given a nitrate tablet I collapsed and woke up in resuscitation.

Anyway after 2 more days in the hospital and various blood tests and being on an ecg, x-rays and having a wire pushed up to and around my heart I was told there was nothing wrong with my heart or arteries, I was released.

Since this time I have experienced all manner of ills including problems with my bowel movements e.G. constipation & diarrhea; headaches, feeling flushed in the face, tiredness and pains/ aches in my back, chest, stomach and left arm.

I have had blood tests, urine tests and even a stool test with all okay. My liver alt level is a little higher than normal but my doctor is not worried.

My doctor tells me to forget what happened in a & e and to just get with life but I am a worrier by nature so it is not easy. As each ache or pain develops I worry more.

In the morning within 10mins I feel my arm aching - it then goes off - and throughout the day I have aches and pain in my back, chest and in my sides.

From what I have read on the forums and on various websites I may be suffering from anxiety.

I would appreciate some feedback from my post. Perhaps some good person can help reassure me.

Thanks

[moon]

Don?t worry,. Lol your aches and pain seem like its associated with anxiety. I have the weirdest pains in the weirdest places, mostly on my left side. Like I had posted in other forums the mind is a powerful thing, and it is what really controls everything. I get really bad kingliness, numbness, muscle weakness and pains all down my left arm and side of my left rib cage, and it honestly freaks me out, but I have a very close friend who suffered from panic disorder, and she has honestly helped me out a lot. She tells me that it is cause by anxiety. My jaw also hurts from time to time. I hate having this problem. And if its not controlled properly it can literally take over your life.

[gill]

I had all sort of weird symptoms and probably drove my doctor nuts but she was very understanding. Even was sent for a full cardiac evaluation and came out just fine. But still I get the intense tension, binding across the chest, back, tingling; gosh the list goes on... Many of the symptoms you have. I'm slowly learning to live with it but I would never have imagined that tension and panic attacks could have so many real physical symptoms!