Open Question: Chest pain help please?
Starting about a month ago, i have been having chest pains. They started in the car, i asked my mom, and she told me it was anxiety. I told her that I didn’t believe that it could be and i had them the whole time in virginia. My mom is a nurse, i recently had a physical and went to a doctor to get sertraline. I think there might be something seriously wrong with my lungs though. One lung feels different than the other, its hard to explain how it feels different. I guess it kind of feels like the left lung isn’t as active as my right if that makes any sense. The other day me and my friends went ding dong ditching and as we ran my left lung started to hurt. Today my friend was going to the deli to get dip and we ran because the kid who was getting it for him was already there. When i exercise my chest always hurts in the same area. I am constantly worried that I have lung cancer or some fatal disease and my mom tries to assure me everytime I ask her about it that i am fine, but I am worried. My mom says that people constantly run in the E.R. thinking they’re having a heart attack. The only difference is I am not worried about a heart attack. I live in a house of cigarette smoke and I told my mom that it is very possible because i swim in a pool of carcinogens. I’m seriously worried about my health and I think my mom is telling me I’m fine because of her extremely bad denial stage of her cigarette addiction. I have many other symptoms of anxiety, parts of my face, head, toes, and fingers will randomly start to feel numb. i feel lightheaded sometimes as well. I never have to cough but i feel like i have to clear my throat sometimes. The dose of sertraline I take is 25mg, the doctor said that it’s just a starter dose. Also, I think that I’m depressed, so that might contribute to my anxiety. I have had an EKG done already and that was completely normal. I am getting bloodwork soon. When I was little I would never talk to anyone besides family. When the waiter would come at a restaurant, i would stop talking and put my head down. I also have a bad habit of biting and picking my fingernails. I have smoked a couple cigarettes but haven’t in awhile and I’m not addicted, and I’ve smoked weed twice. Even now I am constantly worried of what people think of me and I’m extremely shy in school. I go to a boarding school with boarders and day students. The only friends I have there are boarders and that’s because I live with them. I’m 14 years old and I’m turning 15 in September. Do I have something seriously wrong with me, or is it just anxiety like everyone says?

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:25:09 GMT

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