I am 15 years old so I am still growing and going through puberty. About 7 monthes ago I had heart pain which was tested and came up as a simple anxiety/panic attack symptom. Just about a month and a half ago, I noticed a fleshy lump inside of my chest below and to the side of my sternum (not the same side as my heart, though), but above and to the side of my xiphoid process. I recently went to the doctor and he felt the lump and reassured me, saying that it definately didn’t feel like a lipoma or cancer, and it would be a very unusual spot for a cancerous growth to be, anyway. My doctor believes that it is a costochondral junction inflammtion. But when I went home I ressearched it, and I learned that it is supposed to be painful. What I have is completely painless… Is it possible for me to have this and it still be painless? Also, I often have a painless clicking/popping sound/sensation in that area if I lay on it a certain way or push on it. The lump is softer than bone and feels more like flexed muscle. It is not movable, but when I lean back and suck in my stomache, it either moves in or turns flat/soft (can’t tell which, but its very different).

What do you all think?

Tags: anxiety panic attack, anxiety panic attack symptom, cancer, cancerous growth, costochondral junction, going through puberty, heart pain, inflammtion, lipoma, month and a half, monthes, sound sensation, sternum, stomache, xiphoid process

My mother died from cancer whenever I was 13, and being a female, that is a touchy age. Can this cause long-term issues with anxiety, etc.? I feel like it has affected my adult life somehow.

Tags: adult life, anxiety, cancer

K background info: hes 23 imm 20. We went on a break because of his busy schedule. He coaches two soccer teams and goes to college. To top it off hes stressed with school, soccer, his parents always on his back. I didnt believe this was the reason 4 the break. Well recently he told me he thought he was having a heart attack one night and they rushed him to the hospital and there they told him it was due to stress and anxiety, it was all mental… He said he had another episode like that again where he said he was convinced he had cancer or something, and his heart would hurt, hed get light headed… he researched anxiety attacks online and said he had most symptoms and was going to do to the doctors last thursday to see..

My question is could I send him a message asking how hes doing? I don’t want to keep sending him messages (i did this the first few weeks of the break) But im worried about him and want to know how hes doing.. Would it be alright? what would you say in the message

Tags: Anxiety Attacks, background info, busy schedule, cancer, doctors, having a heart attack, heart attack, hes, last thursday, parents, school soccer, soccer teams, Stress And Anxiety

My roommate speculates that I may be suffering from PTSD relating to my father’s death. I’m having trouble finding information on this topic because most PTSD relates to soldiers in combat or people who suffered sexual abuse as a child.
When I moved back home after college, my father was diagnosed with cancer. For the next year, as I lived at home, he was battling cancer. During that period, my grandfather died unexpectedly after a fall. After that was when my father’s heath went downhill. I was there for his entire decline and his death at the hospital (late september).
But it seems that this time of year (when he started to go downhill), I sort of break down mentally, for no tangible reason. I go into a deep depression, my OCD gets out of control, I have anxiety attacks. Other symptoms my roommate noted–avoidance of movies relating to father/daughter bonds, avoidance of relationships, flashbacks of his death, volitile personality,
out of room..what can you all tell me?

Tags: Anxiety Attacks, avoidance, bonds, cancer, decline, depression, father daughter, flashbacks, having trouble finding information, heath, late september, ocd, personality, ptsd, relationships, roommate, sexual abuse, tangible reason, time of year

K background info: hes 23 imm 20. We went on a break because of his busy schedule. He coaches two soccer teams and goes to college. To top it off hes stressed with school, soccer, his parents always on his back. I didnt believe this was the reason 4 the break. Well recently he told me he thought he was having a heart attack one night and they rushed him to the hospital and there they told him it was due to stress and anxiety, it was all mental… He said he had another episode like that again where he said he was convinced he had cancer or something, and his heart would hurt, hed get light headed… he researched anxiety attacks online and said he had most symptoms and was going to do to the doctors last thursday to see..

My question is could I send him a message asking how hes doing? I don’t want to keep sending him messages (i did this the first few weeks of the break) But im worried about him and want to know how hes doing.. Would it be alright? what would you say in the message

Tags: Anxiety Attacks, background info, busy schedule, cancer, doctors, having a heart attack, heart attack, hes, last thursday, parents, school soccer, soccer teams, Stress And Anxiety

K background info: hes 23 imm 20. We went on a break because of his busy schedule. He coaches two soccer teams and goes to college. To top it off hes stressed with school, soccer, his parents always on his back. I didnt believe this was the reason 4 the break. Well recently he told me he thought he was having a heart attack one night and they rushed him to the hospital and there they told him it was due to stress and anxiety, it was all mental… He said he had another episode like that again where he said he was convinced he had cancer or something, and his heart would hurt, hed get light headed… he researched anxiety attacks online and said he had most symptoms and was going to do to the doctors last thursday to see..

My question is could I send him a message asking how hes doing? I don’t want to keep sending him messages (i did this the first few weeks of the break) But im worried about him and want to know how hes doing.. Would it be alright? what would you say in the message

Tags: Anxiety Attacks, background info, busy schedule, cancer, doctors, having a heart attack, heart attack, hes, last thursday, parents, school soccer, soccer teams, Stress And Anxiety

A few months ago my mother died of cancer. She was 52 and i am 25. Everyone knew her time was coming soon. So it was not a shock. About a month afterwards my husband rented a movie that he thought was a love story but ended up being about a teenage boy dieing of cancer. After the movie ended i could not quit crying. Then all of a sudden i couldnt breath. I felt sick to my stomach my chest started hurting and i felt like my brain was swelling. I thought that i was having a heart attack and was getting ready to die. My husband was there with me and had seen other people have these attacks in the past. He helped me get though it. And afterwards told me i had a panic attack. The next morning when i wook up i felt so drained. I started looking on the net researching panic attacks and found that it is more common i women between 20-30. All the sysmtoms they listed i had that night. I was just wondering if anyone out there has had this happen to them before and the treatment they went though.

Tags: brain, cancer, dieing, having a heart attack, heart attack, love story, next morning, panic attack, Panic Attacks, shock, sick to my stomach, teenage boy

I am too young to be having panic attacks, and I keep thinking that I have cancer or diseases. I am afraid that these panic attacks at a young age will lead to bad health problems later in life.

Tags: cancer, diseases, health problems, Panic Attacks

I was diagnosed with anxiety about 2 years ago and recently i have been under lots of stress and been feeling weird symptoms. I have done blood work and everything is fine.
I am worrying i might have a brain tumor even though there is no cancer in my family. I have been reading the symptoms are so identical.

Can anyone tell me the differences?

Tags: anxiety, blood work, brain tumor, cancer, stress

I posted a question a few days ago about vertigo. I have started feeling slightly lighed headed lately as well. I suffer from some pretty severe anxiety this time of year as well. I do have a fullness of the ears and a slight pain in my left ear as well. I am a smoker but have cut back drastically in the last couple days, which could account for some of the dizziness. I have been to the hospital serveral times in the last few years with nothing out of the ordinary sprining up. I have been on and off of anxiety meds and it does seem that these symptoms always pass as winter begins.
I posted a question a few days ago about vertigo. I have started feeling slightly lighed headed lately as well. I suffer from some pretty severe anxiety this time of year as well. I do have a fullness of the ears and a slight pain in my left ear as well. I am a smoker but have cut back drastically in the last couple days, which could account for some of the dizziness. I have been to the hospital serveral times in the last few years with nothing out of the ordinary sprining up. I have been on and off of anxiety meds and it does seem that these symptoms always pass as winter begins.
I am 20 years of age.
No history of high blood pressure.
No disabilities.
No history of cancer in family.
Father suffers from hypertension and had atrial fib. 51 years of age, no heart attack. All granparents lived to be at least 80

Tags: cancer, couple days, disabilities, dizziness, ears, few days, granparents, heart attack, high blood pressure, hypertension, left ear, meds, severe anxiety, smoker, time of year, vertigo

In mid december i developed anxiety. and i have never had a history of Panic attacks, at least thats what i think they are. Unfortunately i am concerned that these attacks are actually seizures and not panic attacks. I believe i am a hypochondriac but lately this is really getting ridiculous. I am dizzy…not all the time…i have in the past few weeks gotten a little morning sickness but nothing major and i never puked….just felt nausea. I came back from college yesterday…all day i had a tender to the touch soft spot on my left temple. Then it went away, and when it did it felt like liquid was released from it but i could be creating this in my head im not sure whats going on..now today is my worste day yet, and now im petrified….my face feels a little numb on the left side…near my jaw.. and my ear on my left side has also become sore. although this could be because i kept sticking my finger in it to check if there was blood, and i live in new york city so my hands were NOT clean. i guess alll of these are symptoms of anxiety and brain tumors so if i’m 19 and my father died from pancreatic cancer and i have a 1.2 gpa and i might leave my school and my mother constantly gives me shitst stopped smoking weed after 4 straight years of it….which one is it?

Tags: brain tumors, cancer, gpa, hypochondriac, morning sickness, nausea, new york city, Panic Attacks, seizures, smoking weed, soft spot, symptoms of anxiety

I would like to know which of the 3 i have. I have the following symptoms:
1- Anxiety attacks
2- Excessive worrying for no apparent reason or cause
3- Socially "scared", I have to be talked to in order to talk to a person, in other words, Im not good in meeting people. Most of my friends have myspace, I don’t because im scared of what they will think of me
4- I get feelings of loneliness , especially during evenings (after 5PM), and I feel sad for everyone.
5- I am scared of stupid things such as some red dot on my skin meaning i have cancer, and death.
6- I see no future for myself, i dont see a girlfriend, good job, nor family.
7- Scared I will never get better.

There are times during the day where these feelings go away until i think about them again, then they come back. Sometimes i even feel happy and i find them funny and ridiculous.

Which one of the 3 do i have?
I dont think its Bipolar because I do not have high and low’s from day to day, and I know what triggers my high and low’s, if i am doing something i enjoy and forget about my illness, I have a "high" and if i get reminded of it again or if i am bored and nothing to do, I think about it again, and I get a "low"

Tags: 5pm, Anxiety Attacks, apparent reason, bipolar, cancer, evenings, feelings, girlfriend, good job, loneliness, meeting people, red dot, stupid things

Is it possible to have a 2 day long anxiety attack? That doesnt have any immediate noticable physical symptoms such as racing heart etc.

I get these "attacks" where for anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 or 3 days I can do nothing but worry about dying.
I am having health problems and am undergoing tests, but it looks like cancer, so I know its normal to worry about.

But these things are really crippling, like I will just sit there for hours and tap my foot, which seems to help then maybe cry, then if I am lucky I can get myself to sleep for a couple hours. This goes on for days sometimes.
Is this an anxiety attack? What can I do to stop them so it doesnt go on for 2 or 3 days?
Also I have social and generalized anxiety disorder .. so I am prone to anxiety but this is just like anxiety x 10. I am not on medication for these though. I have never had a panic attack or an anxiety attack, apart from these which only started now I am sick.
I dont have any heart symptoms, sorry if I confused you. Just severe anxiety

Tags: 15 minutes, anxiety attack, cancer, couple hours, generalized anxiety disorder, health problems, medication, panic attack, racing heart, severe anxiety, sleep

I apparently have been to the ER countless of times due to "anxiety/panic symptoms", but the funny thing is, I swore each and everytime that i had cancer, a heart attack, or something SERIOUSLY wrong with me because my health felt completely shot too.

I do have asthma and my immune system was bad due to certain drugs i was taking but…my god..whenever I get agitated, angry, start to argue or think negative thoughts…

I get such strong symptoms that i feel like I’m going to die, get a heart attack, lose my mind…and just…die right then and ther, and I LITERALLY feel it coming.

It feels like I’m going to die.

It’s so awful, bad, and the physical sensations MIMIC major life threatening diseases. they really do.

you can even FEEL your heart flutter and chest hurt and arms/legs..everything starts to hurt and ache and act all weird….

can anxiety/stress/panic REALLY do this? Why are they so strong?

Can this ever get better, or do we have to feel like this for the rest of our lives?

Tags: anxiety panic, anxiety stress, asthma, cancer, drugs, funny thing, god, health, heart attack, heart flutter, immune system, legs, life threatening diseases, negative thoughts, panic symptoms, physical sensations, rest of our lives

I was diagnosed with anxiety about 2 years ago and recently i have been under lots of stress and been feeling weird symptoms. I have done blood work and everything is fine.
I am worrying i might have a brain tumor even though there is no cancer in my family. I have been reading the symptoms are so identical.

Can anyone tell me the differences?

Tags: anxiety, blood work, brain tumor, cancer, stress