Heart problems? Serious help, please?

You're ONLY 15. If the doc says you're fine, you're FINE. Tell your parents you need therapy

Hi Katie COR! It looks as if you are going through it! I certainly think that this is all due to stress reading your description. Fast heart beats, slow heart beats!! Adrenaline (epinephrine) works very quickly on the body, including on the heart. Just thinking of something can make your heart race. Of course if you get these transient arrhythmias it can also affect your breathing and cause weakness. You say that when you work out your heart beats very fast. You ought to feel mine when I play squash. Actually what you try and do is check your recovery rate, that is how long it takes to return to normal. A good time would be about 2 minutes. The trouble is if you are anticipating pulse changes, you may extend your recovery rate time because of your nervousness. I have been a medic for over 40 years and have treated people with symptoms like yours including those who have smoked the dreaded 'weed'. Best regards Pete

That's pretty much how I felt when my anxiety symptoms started. It took me months to get to the point that I could stop obsessing about it every waking moment (and once I finally did, the feeling that something was wrong started to go away). I couldn't bring myself to mow the lawn for weeks because I was convinced I was going to just drop dead in the middle of it. If your doctor has cleared you of any physical problems, then odds are it's all in your head. The trick is actually accepting that and learning to ignore the symptoms when your instincts are screaming at you that something's wrong. The next time you feel like that, try counting out loud to 50, and concentrating just on the counting. Distraction techniques would really well for me.

Take valerian - 2-4 pills at a time (gauge by how you feel) to alleviate anxiety and take up regular low-impact cardio physical exercise, preferably outdoors (clean fresh air - it means DO NOT take up jogging along major highway). If the docs ran tests on you and nothing showed up, just try to relax. You will outgrow it eventually.

Not a doctor but from what you've said and I had a friend in a similar situation, it sounds like you'll be fine. Its the anxiety like when you have a panic attack, at the time you feel like your dying and you might have even felt like your heart was beating really fast and that it was a heart attack or something. But you know now it was a panic attack. So even though you feel like something's wrong with you now and you get anxious, it's really just the anxiety mimicking the feelings of a real problem when actually you are fine. It's a vicious circle though, because you could be running at the gym and you suddenly realise your heartbeats a bit faster than normal and worry about it, causing anxiety which then means you feel like something is wrong just because your anxious. It might be worth checking on the running machines at the gym your normal heart rate and then when you start to feel bad check It again. Although anxiety will naturally lift your heart rate anyway but just because it's beating faster than normal doesn't mean it's dangerous. The main thing to tell yourself - because it is true, is that a panic attacks and anxiety can not harm you at all, it is your body trying to protect itself against a non-existent threat.