u/Friendly_Progress_61

I swear whenever I wake up to an alarm I get so much anxiety from the sound. It’s such a dreadful sound.

Can anyone relate to this or am I just weird? My thoughts behind it is that it creates such an intense external stimulus that I can only focus on that, putting my anxiety in the background.

Does it just count as 0 and no marks go toward your final your grade or do you get removed from the module or something? Please lmk .

[22M] There’s no doubt for me the nighttime is the worst. The feeling of having no control if something was wrong, or not knowing until the last second because I’m asleep I think is what scares me.

Unlike a lot of people here, My heart rates never fast or anything, actually the opposite it’s pretty slow. That scares me a lot, when I sleep it goes down to like 39-45 on average. It’s been that way for 4 years at least, since I started tracking my sleep anyway. I’ve had 2 ECGs since then and both came back with no evidence that anything was wrong, I have a 3rd ecg this Wednesday and a holter monitor on top of that on Thursday.

During the day I can somewhat handle it and even do things like workout, this is a big one for me. I’ve actually been training for around 4 years but recently I stopped for 2 weeks because I kept getting ectopic beats during my workouts, which is just an horrendous feeling. I didn’t get too many but maybe I’d notice one or two throughout the workout, I never had this before this was a very recent thing. Doctor said it could be caused by the fact I recently became extra anxious of working out. I’ve since worked out and not noticed them again but I’m still unsure.

So yeah , how do you deal with sleeping ? Recently I just can’t, I always wait till I just shutdown and crash without noticing

I was just thinking because my rep is randomly shit. There must be times sad little dickheads people report my account just because I had a bad game or whatever.

I’ve had several games where, I’m in emerald 2 and my whole team are also emerald but the other team have like 4 champs and a diamond. A game I played just now, which wasn’t bad, but my team were all emerald with a diamond 5 and the other team had a champ 2, champ 3 and
diamond4/diamond5 with only one emerald .

Like in what world is that fair matchmaking?
I personally don’t think an emerald should even be in a lobby with a champ. This kind of matchmaking just fucks the games up and absolutely ruins my KD and win/loss, which isn’t right since my stats should reflect me playing against my own skill. I’m nowhere near champ, sometimes I even question myself about being an emerald lol.

But yeah I just feel like they should make it tighter like I understand wait time will be longer but I’d rather that than be in a simply un winnable match.

I really don’t want to keep seeing my tm8s whining like brats at each other in the corner of my screen every game.

Like why the fuck is this a thing. I’ll google or ask ChatGPT x y and z about a certain health aspect and then boom, I see stories of young people having this super rare thing I’ve just looked at.

It pisses me off so much like I’ve seen 3 health related posts today about bad illness, with all due respect I do not want to fucking see that. Why does Instagram think ‘yeah this is a great thing to push up the algorithm’?

I first noticed these probably when I was around 14, had no idea what it was, they happened so infrequently anyway, I’d notice maybe 1 every few months. However since I’ve developed cardiophobia I notice them a lot more, usually one per day, maybe two at a push. But it’s so annoying man, I’m just constantly anticipating getting one and sometimes I’ll go all the way until like 8pm without noticing one and then I do and it ruins my day. I also started getting anxious during exercise so if I lift at the gym, I start noticing them there. I told my dr and she said as long as I’m not feeling faint, dizzy, unable to lift as much or experiencing chest pain then they’re most likely normal. But anyway I had an ecg last year for a similar thing, completely fine, did another one today and a blood test so gonna wait on the results on that.

It’s just so debilitating, like I just don’t care anymore. If something happens then it happens.

[22M] I wear one and have done for 4 years but I always find myself obsessing over my heart rate or checking the ecg feature several times. I’d do the ecg feature several times per day and more at night. One time a couple years ago I believe I got a false afib reading, anyway as u can imagine that freaked me the fuck out. Went to the doctor and they said it’s extremely, extremely unlikely that I had real afib at 22. Anyway had an ecg and everything was normal and then I basically didn’t worry until now.

The last two weeks have been bad, I was on my way to the gym when I noticed this feeling like something was stuck in my chest, it wasn’t actual pain but like almost like I’d swallowed something and it had hit something else in my chest and got stuck. It was on and off for a week and it eventually went but it still scared me.

Stupidly the night before I felt this sensation, I had watched a stupid YouTube video from a doctor about heart attacks and how more people are getting them and he tried painting the image of one in our heads. I get it, the point of the video was to scare people into changing their life for the better, but for people like us it just makes us so fucked for like the next month and worry unnecessarily.

Either way I went to my doctor and she checked some basic things and said since the chest symptom is gone and my vitals are ok, there’s no reason to do an ecg. Bear in mind I have already had one like 12 months ago so it kinda made sense. Either way I couldn’t accept that, I couldn’t, so I booked one locally to get checked, so that’s happening tomorrow but at least I can reassure myself. Oh and of course you couldn’t forget the blood test I booked myself in for to check my cholesterol and inflammation at the ripe age of 22.

This is going to be my second ecg in the space of a year.

I’m not sure how to get over this I really am not. I think the only way is to genuinely just not give a fuck if you randomly die or not and then your life would be more peaceful.

I’m 22 [m] I’ve had health anxiety as a whole for maybe 5 years now, usually it was just the cancer fears and other illnesses and never so much the heart, however probably since the last year I’ve definitely developed cardiophobia.

It all started a year ago when I woke up from a nocturnal panic attack, my heart was beating out my chest and really fast, which made me freak out. Obviously it did calm down fairly quick but those moments were petrifying. Naturally I started thinking ‘omg what if somethings wrong with my heart’, despite working out for 4 years at this point and never having an issue. Anyways I went to the doctor and she listened to my heart, said it sounded normal and if I wanted she could do an ecg. Anyways had the ecg and found nothing wrong. I was then fine for maybe a year until now and all of a sudden my fears are back, I get heart flutters in bed at night, which is the worst and usually some when lifting really heavy at the gym. I’m not sure why this is but of course anxiety can make these worse/more noticeable, even if they are harmless. I have read adrenaline and anxiety can cause premature beats more often and make them more noticeable, and don’t get me wrong everyone gets pvc/pac but most people don’t notice it the way I do. Especially if I’ve exerted really hard on a max effort lift it scares the shit out of me.

One more important thing to note, I had surgery like 6 months ago where my hearts monitored constantly and they didn’t raise anything alarming which I suppose is an important piece of context.

Either way I’m heading back to the doctors in 2 days (Monday) just to basically explain what’s going on, although I’m scared they might not do much considering my lack of other symptoms like; no chest pain, no shortness of breath, no tingling, numbness or fainting. But I’m going to try and push for some further tests to get reassurance, ideally I’d like a holter monitor to specifically measure my heart during exercise as opposed to just an ecg but at the end of the day it will be the drs choice.

However I’m looking to get over this fear, those who have conquered it, how did you do it?

Everyday, even if your calm or not necessarily anxious, I always feel ‘off’, especially when I first wake up. Does anyone else get that like a constant feel like there’s a pit of in your stomach?

Did they make the restrictions tighter or some shit? feels like im playing a best of 3 ranked