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Chest pain during exercise after months of health anxiety
I’m 15M, and I’ve been dealing with severe health anxiety since around February, mainly because I was constantly afraid that I was having a heart attack.
I went to the ER multiple times and had around 6 ECGs, 2 cardiology evaluations, and a chest X-ray. Everything came back normal, and doctors reassured me that my heart was healthy. I also started therapy, including EMDR, from around March to July, and over June and July I was doing much better. I was sleeping normally again and the fear of dying had mostly gone away.
About 3–4 days ago, I suddenly started exercising more. I did around 60 push-ups, then the next day I ran about 4 km. During the run, I felt quite a lot of pressure in my chest while exercising, which scared me.
After that, I continued doing push-ups and developed more chest pain. Yesterday, I went to play basketball and felt fine while playing, but when I tried doing a pull-up afterward, I got chest pain again. Since then, the pain seems to happen mainly when I move or under exercise.
Now I’m scared that something is wrong with my heart, especially because the pain has sometimes been on the left side of my chest. I’m also afraid of exercising or going to sleep because I’m scared something could happen to me.
Could this simply be muscle/chest wall pain from suddenly doing a lot of push-ups, running, basketball and pull-ups, or should I get checked again because of the chest pressure during running? Im so scared please someone helo me i dont wanna die all of a sudden

15M, 170cm x 50kg. Since february, chest pressure. All of the follow ups cardiologist etc, sent to therapy. Became worse in april, where i couldnt sleep anymore. Now 2 days ago it became even worse i feel this big pressure on my chest it’s constant and scary. I also get pther symptoms like dizziness but i guess it’s just from the weather being too hot in italy. Should i tell someone? Also i sold my smartwatch because i kept checking my heart rate and stuff i feel very scared and i feel like a sensation that my heart is beating wrong. Tought maybe costochondritis but i dont know. This chest pressure and sometimes pain is absolutely horrible. Been sleeping 6hr a night because i wake up in the morning at 8 am feeling this chest pressure and feeling so uncomfortable any position i try so i just get up from bed. Its been 4 months of hell i just wanna enjoy summer.

15M, 170cm x 50kg. Since february, chest pressure. All of the follow ups cardiologist etc, sent to therapy. Became worse in april, where i couldnt sleep anymore. Now 2 days ago it became even worse i feel this big pressure on my chest it’s constant and scary. I also get pther symptoms like dizziness but i guess it’s just from the weather being too hot in italy. Should i tell someone? Also i sold my smartwatch because i kept checking my heart rate and stuff i feel very scared and i feel like a sensation that my heart is beating wrong. Tought maybe costochondritis but i dont know. This chest pressure and sometimes pain is absolutely horrible. Been sleeping 6hr a night because i wake up in the morning at 8 am feeling this chest pressure and feeling so uncomfortable any position i try so i just get up from bed

15M, 170cm x 50kg. Simce february, chest pressure. All of the follow ups cardiologist etc, sent to therapy. Became worse in april, where i couldnt sleep anymore. Now 2 days ago it became even worse i feel this big pressure on my chest it’s constant and scary. I also get pther symptoms like dizziness but i guess it’s just from the weather being too hot in italy. Should i tell someone? Also i sold my smartwatch because i kept checking my heart rate and stuff i feel very scared and i feel like a sensation that my heart is beating wrong. Tought maybe costochondritis but i dont know. This chest pressure and sometimes pain is absolutely horrible. Been sleeping 6hr a night because i wake up in the morning at 8 am feeling this chest pressure and feeling so uncomfortable any position i try so i just get up from bed

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I need help badly. I’m 15M. Made various post. Chest pressure all day, very strong. Palpitations h24, feel my heart pounding. Dizziness, and the strangest feeling. It’s been 3 months, since this started, that i dont feel comfortable in any position. Im getting no sleep, fearing of a heart attack or cardiac arrest in sleep. I just want help, i want to be like i was before. 3 months ago i did all the test, ekg, ecg, blood test. But 1 months ago my symptoms became worse and i cant tell my parents to go to the doctor again. Im doing therapy with cbt and emdr. Everyday is worse. I train about 4-5 times a week of basketball. I dont know what to do. I feel so wrong. I want my symptoms to pass quickly. Please someone help me

15M. I have severe health anxiety. Or this is what everyone is telling me. 3 months ago went to the ER a couple of times for chest pressure. Dont want to write all the story but i’ve had 2 cardiologist visit 1 blood panel about 6 elektrocardiograms and 2 echos. Everything good, even the doctor yelled at me for making my parents go to the ER. Ok, it was getting better, i could do everything but that not so loud thought was always in my head but i was feeling i was a actually getting over it. 2 months ago, one night i go to sleep and the next day everything changed, it got worse. Now it’s been 2 months that i can’t sleep and if i do i wake up at 7 am and i am not able to go back to sleep. My physical symptoms are scaring me so much, constant chest pressure, feeling stiff 24/7, feeling dizzy. Yes, i know, “anxiety” can cause these symptoms and yes, i’m going to therapy doing CBT and emdr therapy i’m on my second month but i didnt notice any changes, actualky the toughts are getting worse. Everyday i feel i’m closer to death, i can’t think about maybe 1 month or even tomorrow because i know my death is near. I know, with this type of anxiety you must not seek reassurance, and honestly i’m not because i’m tired of everyone saying “but you did every test and they were negative” and other stuff i’m just tired of this whole thing, i have so many things planned for my future, this was supposed to be my summer, i would get good at my sport, get a girlfriend , do everything a teenager should do, but unfortunately i’m not. I just want this feeling or whatever is happening go away, i want to be back normal where i did enjoy even the simplest days, now im scared of them because i know i will be trapped in my thoughts and i dont have anything to distract me. I don’t want to die, everything is just too much. Please can someone help me

15M. I have severe health anxiety. Or this is what everyone is telling me. 3 months ago went to the ER a couple of times for chest pressure. Dont want to write all the story but i’ve had 2 cardiologist visit 1 blood panel about 6 elektrocardiograms and 2 echos. Everything good, even the doctor yelled at me for making my parents go to the ER. Ok, it was getting better, i could do everything but that not so loud thought was always in my head but i was feeling i was a actually getting over it. 2 months ago, one night i go to sleep and the next day everything changed, it got worse. Now it’s been 2 months that i can’t sleep and if i do i wake up at 7 am and i am not able to go back to sleep. My physical symptoms are scaring me so much, constant chest pressure, feeling stiff 24/7, feeling dizzy. Yes, i know, “anxiety” can cause these symptoms and yes, i’m going to therapy doing CBT and emdr therapy i’m on my second month but i didnt notice any changes, actualky the toughts are getting worse. Everyday i feel i’m closer to death, i can’t think about maybe 1 month or even tomorrow because i know my death is near. I know, with this type of anxiety you must not seek reassurance, and honestly i’m not because i’m tired of everyone saying “but you did every test and they were negative” and other stuff i’m just tired of this whole thing, i have so many things planned for my future, this was supposed to be my summer, i would get good at my sport, get a girlfriend , do everything a teenager should do, but unfortunately i’m not. I just want this feeling or whatever is happening go away, i want to be back normal where i did enjoy even the simplest days, now im scared of them because i know i will be trapped in my thoughts and i dont have anything to distract me. I don’t want to die, everything is just too much. Please can someone help me

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So yesterday a guy died in his sleep after his birthday party at 34 years old. His family said that he didnt have any pathology and only had anxiety after going to the doctor. Im kinda worried, i went to a doctor and said just anxiety. And the symptoms keep getting worse. I would really appreciate if someone could really help me in soneway and read my reddit posts

Genuinely, is there a way out to cardiophobia? Or you wont live normally and not get sleep or enjoy anything like me?

Hey, today 16th may is my birthday, I turn 15! but not one friend that i considered my best one wished me an happy birthday and i’m kinda sad. Only my family and 2 friends wished me an happy birthday but i think it’s because yesterday i said to them that today was my birthday. Since late february, i’ve been dealing with health anxiety, as also right now i think i’m dying. I would like to find a girlfriend, and i’m not an introvert person, like i usually try to talk to a girl or maybe write to her on instagram. But they just make fun of me. I just want to say i’m not a weirdo that hust go to girls and ask them weird question im just a normal boy. Also i don’t know why i’m so much disliked between them, i’m not even that ugly. My friends said that i have to go out more to meet more people but i live in a small town where everyone has their friend group and even if i wanted to go out i dont really know with who i should. I’m pretty sad about my situation in life, also in my basketball workouts its going very bad i’m not that good so i’m not much respected between my teammates. Another thing that makes me very sad is when i see my friends planning in front of me like i dont exist or seeing instagram stories maybe in a party i didnt get invited. Obviously i know YOU have to make the first step so many times i asked my friends if i could go out with them or with their friends but every single time my friends said that their friend group didn’t like me so i couldnt go and just stay home. I don’t know what to do everything is going bad, even if it’s my birthday i dont’t feel very happy.

How can you tell it’s anxiety? For me nothing worked and nothing is working.

Yeah people give some very good advice on how to tell it’s just anxiety rather than something abnormal. But did it work for you?

With health anxiety, and believeing that something will happen to me constantly or maybe in sleep, i feel like life itself only last a day. I don’t know if you can undestand, like if you asked me i would have just said that i saw life as a very long period and to not worry about anything. But now, is different, i feel like everyday is worthless and when you go to sleep you will just “end”. I don’t know if someone can undestand, i hope soThis is the 2nd post i make in one day but i just wanted to share my thoughts

Do you get this feeling too? It’s so bad and the fact that mine is constant like my symptoms from day to night doesnt make it much easier. How do you deal with this? What helped? Possibly i need something that actually works because things like “Oh if it goes away when you’re occupied then it’s anxiety” or “if it was something bad symptoms would have been constant” don’t work because mine are constant

Little bit of story: 15M, 2 month ago went to the ER, 2 cardiologist visit in 2 weeks, about 5/6 ekg and 2 echos at the cardiologist and all was good just blood test showed trooponin at 50 pg/ml but they said it was for exercise as my Ck was also a bit high. I had chest pressure at the time, after those visit it was getting better. One evening after training the pressure became much worse and i couldnt sleep and i still can’t. I haven’t ever stopped going to my 5 basketball workouts a week and when i go i think i dont think too much about the pressure and it goes away. I’m also worried because i get some shooting pain when doing light movement and sometimes for the first 10 minutes of the workout i get some pain in my chest then when i do harder work it goes away.
One thing that keeps stressing me out its that the pressure is constant day to night and ive been getting some shitty sleep because im afraid something would happen in sleep. Reading those relief posts where they say that if it would have been something serious the symptoms would ne constant definitely doesnt help me and makes me worry much more. I’ve been going to therapy doing cbt and emdr but they didnt help much im on my 4th session now. I’m a bit afraid of dying tbh and i cant tell if this is a heart problem or a skeletal one, also if i’m with my upper body naked i feel like much vulnerable and i cant touch the pain. In 1 of the many ER visits ive done a pediatrician said it might be gerd and gave me”Gastrotuss” that i took just for 1 week then stopped. I don’t know if this i gerd.

Little bit of story: 15M, 2 month ago went to the ER, 2 cardiologist visit in 2 weeks, about 5/6 ekg and 2 echos at the cardiologist and all was good just blood test showed trooponin at 50 pg/ml but they said it was for exercise as my Ck was also a bit high. I had chest pressure at the time, after those visit it was getting better. One evening after training the pressure became much worse and i couldnt sleep and i still can’t. I haven’t ever stopped going to my 5 basketball workouts a week and when i go i think i dont think too much about the pressure and it goes away. I’m also worried because i get some shooting pain when doing light movement and sometimes for the first 10 minutes of the workout i get some pain in my chest then when i do harder work it goes away.
One thing that keeps stressing me out its that the pressure is constant day to night and ive been getting some shitty sleep because im afraid something would happen in sleep. Reading those relief posts where they say that if it would have been something serious the symptoms would ne constant definitely doesnt help me and makes me worry much more. I’ve been going to therapy doing cbt and emdr but they didnt help much im on my 4th session now. I’m a bit afraid of dying tbh and i cant tell if this is a heart problem or a skeletal one, also if i’m with my upper body naked i feel like much vulnerable and i cant touch the pain. What should i do? Should i stop with the exercise? Should i worry and go to some doctors again?

It’s been a while since this period of my life started and i can tell you, it’s not a good one to be in at only 15. I went to the ER about 4/5 times with chest pressure, did all the visits, 2 cardiologist in 2 weeks. 1 at a private clinic 1 at the ER. All good. Actually, i was getting over it, i was sleeping, just ignoring even if it was almost 3 weeks that the pressure never went off. I tried to help myself as much as i could, not stopping with workouts, going out with my friends and school. Even if there was lows, i still tried. Then 1 week ago i woke up and the pressure became much stronger with much palpitations this time i can’t ignore it, it’s constant. Also chest pain appeared, and now i can’t sleep. The pressure is too much, yeah i know doctors cleared and all, but what i’m feeling i dont think it’s anxiety or anything else. I tought costochondritis, but i really cant touch the pain, sometimes i get chest pain with exertion. I also did a stress test because i have to do it for agonostic sports, but it was in october 2025. I feel so weak and on the edge im gonna die. I got a much things plannes and i dont really wanna go right now. I’m doing CBT therapy and EMDR it’s not helping much to be honest. Before, my mind would just say “Yeah, but when you do your daily workouts your good” and it was true but now when i workout for the first 20/30 minutes i get sharp pains in my chest and im really worried after that i can workout normally tbh. Now im just entering a mindset that i wont even care anymore and just waiting for the moment even if i cant sleep.