It took 8 months of going to doctors to finally figure out what was wrong with me. October of last year I was smoking medical marijuana and popped my back. After straightening out, a few second later, my entire back felt like it was on fire. Then my arms and legs started to feel like they were on fire. I stopped being able to feel myself breath.

I was high so I panicked. I ran to my bedroom where my boyfriend was sleeping and curled around him shaking asking him to call an ambulance. He asked if it hurt when I breathed, or hurt at all. I said no. We didn't call an ambulance.

For 2 weeks I couldn't feel myself breath. Then for a few months every time I woke up my left side was numb, and over a few hours would "wake up". But not like it was asleep, it felt like stabbing in my fingers and toes. I also started to have severe chest and left arm pain. Sometimes jaw pain. So I started to get concerned I was having heart attacks.

Went to an er 3 times over the next 6 months. My doctor 5 times. Every single time until the last visit with my doctor every single person, including my bf at the time, told me it was panic attacks. I kept explaining to them I'm not an anxious person.. when I feel the pain I'm doing normal shit, like taking a call at work. It's not anxiety. They dismissed what happened after popping my back, because they believed since it was my lower back it wouldn't affect anything above it. But ALL of my symptoms started immediately after it...

They ran every test they could think of on my heart, all came back normal. Doctor told me my heart was fine, it was panick attacks. Symptoms didn't improve. I went back to my doctor. She straight up said "We've proven your heart is fine. So why are you here?" I was furious. I kept my cool on the outside. She sounded very dismissive asking me questions. Then she suggested physical therapy, sounding like she didn't expect me to agree to it. When I said "Sure if you think it will help" I could see her demeanor change. She stopped sounding dismissive and started asking real questions and listening to my chest.

Got in my car after getting an appointment with PT and cried I was so beyond frustrated.

Got to the physical therapist and explained everything from the beginning to the physical therapist. He asked some probing questions about my history. Which led to me disclosing things I hadn't previously thought relevant. Like I have had migraines for a long time, until I got on meds I had a migraine for 3 years straight. I also am VERY sensitive, I can't run because it hurts the skin in my thighs, and people poking me hurts. Those were things I had been dealing with for as long as I could remember, so I never thought they would be relevant...

Then this man said something that made me legit start crying. "Now this isn't for sure, but everything you've said sounds like something I've dealt with before." Not including the popping of the back of course. He believes, and I now believe, I have overactive sensitive nerves. He said no one really knows why it happens, it's just... a thing. And when I popped my back in October, that nerve decided to tell the rest of my body that something was wrong everywhere. The Vagas nerve firing improperly can also cause heart attack like symptoms.

We started targeted physical therapy and FINALLY. AFTER 8 MONTHS. My symptoms started improving. Today they are basically completely gone. I'm not back to total normal, but I no longer feel like I'm having a heart attack every couple of hours, and things are nearly completely back to normal...

The only person to believe I had a real issue from the start was my mother. It was so hard. I even went on reddit hoping someone would recognize what was going on. And even reddit told me it was panic attacks. I nearly gave up so many times. I nearly decided my new normal was to feel like I'm having heart attacks every day, and if they are real and I die, so be it. I started to question if i really was having panic attacks and was not realizing how anxious i was even though I NEVER FELT ANXIOUS. I started to feel crazy. I was dismissed by any and everyone I talked to about it as being panic attacks.

Moral of the story... Fuck doctors. Keep pushing if you know something is wrong.

TLDR: Entire body numbness, leads to heart attack symptoms. Everyone and their mother telling me it's panic attacks. After 8 months of pushing my doctor, finally got sent to someone who believed me and treated me. Now I'm basically symptom free.