i wanted to crosspost my previous post from before but unfortunately this subreddit doesnt allow it so if youre curious you can just go back and read it ^_^
but basically, after reading everyones comments about my chest pain just being from anxiety and panic i felt a lot more reassured. the pain continued to persist for the next few days though but i just convinced myself that it was just from my fear of something being wrong that it was manifesting as pain so i ignored it.
the day that followed though, i noticed that my left arm began to feel kind of heavy and that the pain was constant now and not just coming and going throughout the day. whenever i tried to even open a door or a bottle it felt like there was strain in my chest and my left arm felt unusually weak. i continued to believe it was just paranoia though because to me i didnt think that anything would be wrong since im not quote on quote "that underweight" currently.
at around 10pm i decided to tell my father since i was getting a bit anxious at the fact the pain still hasnt gone away. he checked my blood pressure and then my heartrate - which was extremely high. it was around 130 beats and it continued to get higher. i also started to shake extremely badly.
i ended up heading to the er and during the ride my heartrate had reached 167 bpm. it lessened over the ride but it was still quite elevated (120+)
once we got there i was checked out and got my bloods taken, an ecg, an xray, and then eventually an echocardiogram.
the doctor ended up clinically diagnosing me with something called costochondritis. i had never heard of it before but apparently its something that can mimic heart issues and is just an inflammation of the muscles between the sternum and middle part of the ribcage i believe? im not too sure
i just wanted to share incase anyone may be going through this as well and to ask if any other disordered people have gotten diagnosed with it?