What's the difference between heart condition chest pains and anxiety/panic attack chest pains?

Constant Anxiety After Anxiety attack from Weed?

• This might be a long read but this is whats been going on with me for the past 3 Weeks. I dont know what else to do. I need to know if there is anyone else who has gone through this. For starters I am a 21 year old male. Ive never had panic attack before or anything like that up until this. Here is My story in Chonological order: How it started: One night i saw my brother when he came to visit, and that night i smoked potent marijuana, I hadn't done it in a while and i got extremely anxious and paranoid, I decided to go to bed and when i was laying there to go to bed and started having terrible chest pains, and thought i was having a heart attack, Got so bad i had to go and wake up my mom and talked to her and she calmed me down a bit and told me we were going to go to the hospital tommorow, couldn't sleep but eventually passed out. I have never had a panic attack or anything before. Next day: I went to the hospital and got myself checked out and they said everything was normal, It was during this day i realized my fast heartbeat, and increased level of anxiety. Something was NOT RIGHT. I Made appointment with doctor. That night I Had terrible trouble sleeping , It felt as if i was stuck in a state of shock. Jolted awake from sleep multiple times. 3rd Day: I noticed i was still in a state of fear, Which was terrifying. I could not eat anything at all. I was constantly shaking, Palms sweating. I think i was constipated too. It was as if my fight or flight response had been stuck switched on, As soon as i woke up, my anxiety was at a hight level. Heart beat pounding, palm sweating, not as much chest pains. Went to see DR LEE, explained to him my condition, he said he thought i had generalized anxiety disorder. Prescribed me Paxil and Hyroxodine. Same troubles sleeping. 4th day: Same thing. 5th day: Completely unbearable, cant enjoy anything, constant battle with my mind. Constantly trying to figure out whats wrong with me, in turn making it worse. Notice that im having trouble with bright lights, feel dizzy a lot, car rides make me extra dizzy. Decide to stop taking pail. 6th day: Thought i needed to have myself committed. Went to Mental health emergency room, waited for an hour, and eventually got so scared i up and left. I am not like those people.. 3rd Week: Terrible constant anxiety, in a Locked duel with my mind. a week ago: I have decided i NEED to talk to a psychologist, MAYBE, just maybe someone can help me. I KNOW there is no reason for me to be worrying, but the mind is such a curious thing, the way it reacts to danger on a subconscious level is beyond my comprehension. I am in a constant state of fear and anxiety, thinking about anything makes me feel hopeless and overwhelmed. Always worrying and always having a racing heart . Sometimes i just pace around the house and think, because i am not able keep interest in anything else. I know that its my mind pulling itself into a constant cycle and im aware of it but i just can help it. Its like the constant anxiousness is my brain trying to come to some conclusion as to whats wrong with it. Sometimes i have brief moments of clarity, but i never feel like i did before this nightmare started. It feels like i am watching life throughout a tv screen or something to that extent, my vision feels laggy and tunneled. Sometimes it gets worse, for no apparent reason. I try to re assure myself that things will get better, but my subconscious knows the truth, it knows that something is not right. It knows how it used to be.My mind is constantly consumed by the mentally exhausting battle it is having. I just want to be normal. I cannot take it anymore, it does not make sense. Its like im in a constant fear mode, and i know i have no reason to be like this. I read that when the brain is under constant stress that it doesn't deal with, the brain decides that portion of the brain is not working properly anymore so it shuts it down, and reroutes it, can this be what happened to me that night? what can i do? is it ever going to get better?? Sometimes i just want to give up but i know i cant. Im a smart person, and maybe if i wasn't as smart i wouldn't be overanalyzing this. i just don't know. Now: I have come to terms with the fact that this has to be anxiety, my sympathetic nervous system is hyper-active and i do not know why. Something went on in my brain that night, maybe i was leading up to it, maybe i haven't. All i know is a HAVE to come to terms with it if i want to get better. My days are consumed by thoughts of what if, i try to put them aside but its like i cant control it.

• Answer:

  My friend I am going through the exact same thing as you but in my case, I ate some hash brownies. I know how you feel man. What helps me is being around other people like my friends and family. I like to think happy thoughts and listen to calming music. I also do breathing exercises and just try my best to calm myself down. I know I'm not providing the best help but you just have to try and relax. Realize that it was just some weed you smoked and everything will be okay. I'm still not 100% better yet but when I am around the people I love everything gets better. I will pray for you bro, and I hope that now you know that you are not alone that it will all get better for you soon. You are NOT alone my friend, its been 3 days for me and I seem to be getting better. Stay strong brother.