Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Sounds like anxiety to me. I started having that about a month ago (my subconscious playing up on me, because I am not consciously worried), and did the whole doctor/chest x-ray thing. I even had a hyperventillation incident two weeks ago, which was highly unpleasant (you feel like you're dying).

To avoid this (hyperventillation), try deep SLOW breathing when you feel your chest is tight, making your exhale a little longer than your inhale. When your chest feels like that, you want to take in more oxygen, even though you're getting enough, you can start to shallow breathe, get too much oxygen and then hyperventillate, because it feels like you're not getting enough oxygen, when the opposite in true. I had the ambulance out and everything, because I'd never experienced anything like it. They were amazing, listened to my chest (fine) took blood sugar (fine) did an EKG (totally fine) reassured me how common it was for this to happen and for people to get alarmed and call 999. Then later that day it hit my bowels. If you feel chest pain/ache, try a heart burn remedy at first. Your stomach might have joined in with the symptoms.

Now, I'm mostly fine again. It going away was an inexplicable as it arriving. Felt it a little yesterday, but the breathing really helps. I have no plans to hyperventillate ever again, because that was bad.

Also, try not to look things up on the internet too much, and I'd avoid TV shows like "House" and "ER" because they only feed anxiety, conscious or not.