Hello!
Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
Regarding your concern, your symptoms seem to be related to
anxiety, but a
cardiac arrhythmia can't be excluded only by this symptomatology.
Did you take Xanax during this episode?
I recommend consulting with your attending physician for a careful examination, a resting ECG and some blood lab tests:
- a
complete blood count ( to exclude chronic anemia)
- thyroid hormone levels (
hyperthyroidism could cause similar symptoms)
- kidney and liver function tests
- blood electrolytes
-fasting glucose.
An ambulatory 24 hour ECG monitoring is necessary to rule in/out possible cardiac arrhythmia.
If all the above tests result normal, the most propable cause of your troubles would be anxiety.
In such a case you need to consult with your
psychiatrist to start psycho therapy or a medical treatment (like an antidepressant).
Hope to have been helpful!
Best regards,
Dr. Iliri