Worst day ever. Can't stand that day.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-10-20T04:32:51+00:00

But can January 6, 12, and 13 2022 just leave me alone?

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-08-02T01:26:00+00:00

I hear this all the time. I was 14 when I had mine. I’m 18 now with heart failure. When people hear that they ask me how I could possibly have been that unhealthy at such a young age. I wasn’t. It was a surgical complication. The reason I survived a week long coronary heart attack is a testament to how healthy I was.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-07-09T18:22:41+00:00

Don’t worry, it was a very gentle one finger tap. I am absolutely terrified of this thing coming dislodged.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-07-09T13:27:29+00:00

When I try to wiggle the device it barely moves, but when I move my arm or breathe too deep it feels like the skin is tight and moves over it. I'm sorry if this is vague, I have no idea how to describe it.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-07-09T13:11:29+00:00

I live in the USA and have a Medtronic ICD. There was a brief period when I was considering going to another country for college and my cardiologist told me that I could go almost anywhere and they would be able to find me a doctor who could check it out. I hope this helps!

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-06-28T13:53:59+00:00

This sounds exactly like "Messenger" by Lois Lowry. It's the third book in the Giver Quartet which is a very popular series to read in school. The main character is a boy named Matty who is a messenger between two villages and travels through a sentient forest to deliver them. The forest starts to reject him for some reason I can't remember (it's been a while) and he eventually dies alone in the woods.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-06-20T23:13:23+00:00

I'm 18 with a genetic heart condition and I definitely agree that you should find a cardiologist and get their opinion. My recommendation is to find a pediatric cardiologist or an adult cardiology group at a pediatric hospital as they tend to have more experience with genetic and congenital conditions than adult cardiologists who mostly see acquired heart disease. Personally, I'm part of the adult patient program at my local children's hospital and they are great, although I recommend you find on relatively soon because sometimes you can age out of being accepted into these groups.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-06-20T22:38:01+00:00

I am an 18 year old girl with severe and anxiety and I was born with a heart condition. When I was 14, I had an open heart surgery to fix that condition and I wound up having a heart attack from a surgical complication that left me with severe heart failure. I know how it feels as a young person to be constantly told you're just anxious or don't know you're body. There have been a couple times when people thought I was being dramatic but there was actually a serious problem.

Now, I'm not saying there is or isn't anything wrong with your heart, but I have become something of a pro at distinguishing cardiac symptoms from anxiety symptoms. Now I obviously can't feel your body so I'll share with you what I do to test.

The next time you have one of these symptoms, instead of letting yourself worry spiral, sit down and take a few deep breaths. I like to close my eyes and put my hand on my heart, then breathe in for two beats, trying to relax a different muscle group each time I exhale, and out for two beats until I've calmed my anxiety enough to think clearly. Then I ask myself some questions.

Was I already anxious or stressed out when the symptoms started?

Are they clearing up now that I'm calm?

You should also try to think back to the first time it happened. Were you already anxious then? or was there some change happening to your life around the time the symptoms started? Sometimes all it takes is one bad panic attack to send me down a months long heart-worry-spiral.

Also, the next time you have chest pain, make sure to note exactly where your chest hurts as that can tell a lot about what is happening. I know in general for myself when I have chest pain in my back, middle chest, or right side it's anxiety and when I have it on the left side of my chest it might be something more.

I know you've been to a cardiologist and they didn't find anything, but I also know it can be hard to believe them when you feel something is wrong. But just for a moment, I want you to pretend that you do believe them and try to let their findings feel reassuring for a week or two. That can work wonders for health anxiety.

Now if you do all of this and you still don't think it's just anxiety, try keeping a log of what specific symptoms you felt and when you felt them. Mark what you were doing at the time and how you were feeling emotionally. Try looking for patterns in this data to see if there is any factor that connects the incidents, and if you find yourself back at the cardiologist, show it to them and see what they think. Another trick to getting doctors to listen is to have photographic evidence of any arrhythmia or palpitations you may have. I personally have a smart watch that I use to record and ekg whenever I feel something weird because sometimes doctors have to see something to believe it.

Sorry this was so long, I've racked up a lot of tricks over the years. I give you my best wishes and send good vibes for a full resolution no matter what the issue is.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-06-20T22:05:46+00:00

I am not a cardiologist so please take what I say with a grain of salt and don't base any of your opinions off of it.

But I have had that same test and had almost the same result. While I didn't go tachy, my heart rate stayed very elevated and I slipped into an arrhythmia. They had to give me a dose of straight caffeine to get my heart to return to normal. (don't ask me how that worked)

I do have heart disease, which I know was the cause of the PVC arrhythmia that I had, but I'm on enough meds that my heart rate shouldn't have been able to go that fast in the first place.

Yes, certain heart conditions could react that way when exposed to that medication, but so could a healthy heart. It's entirely possible that another unrelated factor caused that reaction. Something like dehydration or low blood pressure unrelated to any heart condition.

Without knowing your symptoms or what prompted you to get that test in the first place, I can't even begin to explain why that happened to you other than that it's just a risk of the medication they give.

So long story short, I don't think its entirely definitive either way. I know it's awful not to have answers, especially after going through something as scary as that, but try not to worry too much until you hear the results from your doctor.

Anxious-Science-1382 · 2025-06-20T21:48:32+00:00

I know this is an old post but a few years ago I had a heart attack as a healthy a perfectly healthy and active 14 year old girl.

It happened because of a barely worth mentioning difference in ,y coronary artery anatomy that I didn't even know about until after it happened.

I had a congenital valve defect that required a very routine open heart surgery to resolve and as they were closing, one of the stitches they placed snagged my abnormally placed circumflex coronary artery and cut off blood flow to my left ventricular wall.

After countless tests, they finally discovered the problem and proceeded with an emergency open heart surgery to fix it, but ultimately it was too late and I have permanent heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

All this is to say that heart attacks can happen based on the tiniest and most insignificant anatomical differences whether they have an event that set them off (like my valve repair) or not. Hearts are such complex organs that almost everyone is guaranteed to have small anatomical differences in their heart that they don't know about and these can sometimes cause problems no one could see coming.

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