not anxiety/heart/asthma...just gas?!

June 9, 2006

Hello all,recap if you guys don't remember my story...Saturday night I

felt a flutter in my chest, started feeling " anxious " went to ER, they

said it was a palpitation. THe " anxiety " hasn't gone away since and

I've been taking ativan (sedative) every since...Now I'm feeling a

tightness and feeling like someone is sitting on my upper chest and

shortness of breath. All my tests are normal, no asthma, no heart

problems...

I was just doing some research and came across this.....

" That feeling you are describing is a classic anxiety symptom. Gas is

probably one of the worst foes for people who suffer from anxiety and

panic. Gas can bring on both very fast.

Gas can travel up and it can travel down.

When it's trapped, you get panic.

When it travels up, you get heart symptoms. A large build up of gas in

the upper intestinal tract can cramp the space that your heart is used

to having to beat nice and free. An invasion on this space by gas can

cause your heart to race, chest pains, and breathlessness. You may

even feel like you have just experienced heart flutters but that is

only because a tremendous amount of gas has built up and is bubbling

and tickling the same muscles that your brain uses to detect heart

trouble.

When gas travels down, and gets stuck you can enjoy those really cool

symptoms of " what if I have colon cancer " . When this happens, you feel

quivers in your lower abdomen, and that leads to worry, which leads to

more quivers.

Get an anacid, and try some Protonix or Prevacid to cut down on the

gas. Protonix is cheaper and usually just as effective. "

HMMMM....i'm wondering if this is all i have....i've always had such

digestive problems so it could make sense....but why hasn't it gone

away yet?.....i shall post everywhere and see what you guys think

shefy

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