heavy feeling in your chest - Panic Disorders Message Board

tigerstx · 01-23-2003, 08:08 AM

Good morning...I have suffered from panic attacks for a very long time.
Here are my symptoms:
Heart Palpitations
Nauseau
Tightness in the chest, all the classic symptoms of the attacks...but, does anyone feel this way?
I constantly check my pulse and my chest feels like there is an elephant sitting on my chest...is this panic or something else?
I am soo tired of checking my pulse and just feeling crudey...I have been trying to take my mind off of it, but can't seem to...
Please help, any one else with these symptoms?

Zoider · 01-23-2003, 08:09 PM

Sounds just like me, my Guidance Counsler guy, said I had an Obsessive Compulsive disorder, because I couldn't take my hand off my chest.. I got over thta pretty much.. but I still lay my hand on my chest to see if my heart is beating.. Which is a bad thing.. cause you can never feel your heart right, and I always think I'm dying.. I never learn.. as for everything else you said, I find my self the excact same way.. almost all the time.. I find it least bothersome when I'm doing something.. So just try and keep busy.. thats what I do.

pinkcat · 01-24-2003, 02:01 AM

that was the symptom i had when i had panic attacks. i felt like i was going to die. it was a strange feeling and/or pressure on the chest then my breathing didn't feel right and the fear got worse and worse. after feeling like that too many times i said to myself, 'just stop it. you didn't die the last time and you're not going to die this time'. if you can get your mind off of the symptoms (i know it's hard to do) and just calm down somehow it goes away. i haven't had one in a few years now. what a relief. try to just slow your breathing down and remember it will pass.

Kadree · 01-24-2003, 09:28 AM

I can totally relate to this feeling- in fact I feel it right now. I guess I must be getting used to it because it doesn't trigger anxiety attacks anymore. I just get on telling myself that that is where I carry my stress, and that all the muscles in my chest are constricted and tightened and that is why I am feeling this way. Mind over matter....

mztee · 03-12-2003, 10:23 AM

i am so glad that i am not the only one that feels that way i get so scared that it feels like my throat is gonna close and i have to keep swallowing and feeling my chest and my throat.