Chest Head and anxiety symptoms
Chest Head and anxiety symptoms
CHEST AREA
Many common anxiety symptoms are associated with the chest area. It is often because of these symptoms that people go to the emergency room thinking they are having a heart attack or cannot breathe.
* Chest pain, tightness or discomfort
* Concern about the heart
* Feel like you have to force yourself to breath
* Find it hard to breath, feeling smothered, shortness of breath
* Frequent yawning to try and catch your breath
* Heart Palpitations beating hard or too fast, rapid heartbeat
* Heart – Irregular heart rhythms, flutters or skipped beats, tickle in the chest that makes you cough
* Pounding heart, heart feels like it is beating too hard
* Rib or rib cage tightness, pressure, or feeling like a tight band around the rib cage.
HEAD AREA
There are also anxiety symptoms that manifest in, on or around the head area. It is extremely difficult to pin point anxiety so anxiety may be the last diagnosis when all others have been exhausted.
* Burning, itchy, tight scalp
* Dizziness
* Dizzy
* Dizziness or light-headedness
* The floor feels like it is moving either down or up for no reason
* Frequent headaches, migraine headaches
* Feeling like there is a tight band around your head, pressure, tightness
* Head, neck or shoulder pain, tightness/stiffness
* Head zaps, head tremors
* Giddiness
* Numbness
* Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling
* Shooting pains, stabbing pains, and odd pressures in the neck, head, or face
* Shooting pains in the face
* Shooting pains in the scalp or head
* When you close your eyes you feel like are beginning to, or will, float upwards
* Sore jaw that feels like a tooth ache
* TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular Joint) – clenching of the jaw or grinding of the teeth.


