Wow I needed this. Back in May I got my drink spiked on a trip to Amsterdam and woke up in hospital. I remember small parts of the evening and 2 days later I had my first ever panic attack. I was convinced it was a heart attack. Wound up in hospital again and had blood tests, X rays, ecg’s taken and was told I was fine, but suddenly after 37 years on this planet. I had anxiety 🤦🏼♂️. It comes and goes but since November iv been terrified something is wrong with my heart. For about 3 weeks I’d have sleepless nights and woke up with my heart pounding!! That has more or less settled now but the worry is still there. I still get pains in my chest and I feel like I’m going to panic about it. Work wasn’t helping. The dare app has helped me A LOT!! Literally help me get through the last few months. I know it’s anxiety. If it was a heart problem surely something would have happened by now 😂. This video though has been so informative. Would love to meet this doctor. 1 in a million!
Aida your hair does look amazing! I’ve been stressed lately while on my road to recovery from anxiety, but I just don’t even care anymore. I experience sensations at night but now I’m just like “whatever”. I’m doing everything I need to be healthy. I can’t avoid stress forever.
Its unfortunate for us that you're not accessible to all of us all the time but you'd have no life of your own. That's why your videos are so valuable. They educate, explain, assure, comfort and calm these fears. I love listening to you and welcome it all. Heart problems are scary and a great Cardiologist is a gift - and you are great, Sanjay! Thank you! 💕
My mom has “high blood pressure” but lately she hasn’t been taking her meds because she’s ran out of them, and we’ve gone to get her blood pressure checked and it’s been normal. So it’s kind of interesting. One time the doctor even increased her meds and the pharmacist said no. Based on her blood pressure readings, it’s really not necessary.
Thank you for this video. As someone who suffers from specifically cardiac health anxiety, this video made me feel a lot better. Dr. Gupta is so reassuring, and you're both so kind.
Thank you for all your continuous hard work for the heart anxiety sufferers, Dr Gupta! I've followed you on and off for the past 13+ years. Best wishes!
So wild I'm watching this. Because when I first developed super bad health anxiety, specifcially over heart related things, he was someone I came across looking into POTS as my symptom, etc. He's still one of the biggest MDs in POTS, I am shocked he has gone down the route of brain retraining as possible fixes, given POTS is nervous system related.
1:04:20 This is the only Advice which is going to rock and shake the floor. He said it all just in 2 minutes. When Rumi said "Why do you stay in prison when the door is wide open?" Dr Gupta points the same line. - You can be worried about your heart and get a car accident, - you can be worried about the heart and get a fall from a height and die. All you've to do is to stay at the moment!
this is sooo helpful and deeply explained thank you! i got a little anxious when he said that if they dont get worse while exercising than i have nothing to worry about...mine does sometimes so i was thinking about why did i skip out on the stress test?? but i also been working out very intense and nothing has happened besides palpations. so i just need to trust my body because i would have been had a problem
Don’t make your anxiety worse by worrying about your heart… that’s me entire issue. I’m So worried about my heart my anxiety shoots me to the moon to the point it’s debilitating…. I’ve had so many tests and everything comes back normal. When will I say enough is enough 😢
I recently found this podcast and have been listening on Spotify but this specific episode rubs me the wrong way... As a person with GAD, PSTD and having dealt with health anxiety since I was a child, I was diagnosed with a heart condition (PSVT) some years ago and there are several facts that don't seem to fit into what is being told in this episode. I was getting episodes pretty much randomly, I could go a whole year without an episode and then it could happen 4 times a year. I could go get checked and all my tests would be absolutely normal, even my holter monitor test was normal and all that didn't mean I didn't have a heart condition. To add to this, I was 28 when diagnosed... as is most people with congenital heart rhythm conditions, some are children. The first time I went to the ER, I was fully dismissed and told it was a just panic attack, because it's becoming pretty common to brush potentially serious problems off by blaming it all on "just anxiety". I was so sure it was "just anxiety" that the next time it happened I was in absolute denial when I was told I had gone into AFib and didn't even have a clear idea of it was. I was "lucky" they recorded my heart rhythm on the ECG and I was diagnosed, some people don't manage to get to the ER soon enough and they are systematically gaslighted by doctors while they do have a condition. I feel the focus is always on healthy people who have health anxiety, but what about us who have DIAGNOSED conditions and have to deal with health anxiety? The "I'm healthy, nothing bad will happen" speech doesn't work for us.
I was also diagnosed with a rare neurological disease after months of experiencing symptoms the doctors (and therefore, I) kept brushing off as "just anxiety". Pretty lucky it didn't end up in paralysis or something worse but it has left physical and psychological sequels I have to deal with on a daily basis. There has to be a mid-point in all this or else it feels like just encouraging more medical gaslighting, negligence and psychological abuse (coming from doctors) towards the patients who have actual conditions.
He covered your specific condition. PSVT isn't a heart condition, it's more of a symptom. It's proximal super ventricular tachycardia. Its a fast HR that occurs sometimes. Like palps & etopic beats It's rarely life threatening..... that's why he was stressing how we should work to get rid of the anxiety around those symptoms because stressing ourselves over them does actual damage. I don't feel like he was blowing anything off at all.
Question I've asked in other places and never got answered:- Why is the EF so reported on and seemingly significant, when it doesn't actually signify the amount of blood being delivered to the body with each beat-the stroke volume. I mean, your EF could be 65% but if it's only a teaspoon of blood-it will not be enough!?
I have a thought line of questions for which I wish I could get a "sanity check". Say you have episodes of lightheadedness, nausea, peripheral paraesthesia, and even chest discomfort (repeatedly found "normal in the ER until you don't go anymore). You check your pulse and the rate and the rhythm are normal. What are the chances that the sensation is caused by an INOTROPIC deficiency for some reason? (I'm just imagining vasospasm, for lack of anything else to consider.) And say you check blood pressure too, and it's normal. Now what are the chances? A little background info: I have had these episodes for over two years, ever since a tickborne illness and long COVID triggered an onset of ectopic episodes and even paroxysmal SVT, which all went away within a year. Now I just have the weird sensations. And it is absolutely gastrointestinal related, especially after too much coffee, too much sitting (driving or at a computer), and most powerfully leading up to a bowel movement, triggering even a cold sweat and achy legs.
So I have. Been feeling my pulse strong and I can visibly see my pulse jumping in my stomach and feel it all over. Im dealing with anxiety and i have been to the doctor 4 times already. Does anyone on here have similar symptoms. And is it normal ?
If a person has a high blood pressure, I would investigate with blood tests to check cholesterol levels. If both are high, then surely that says something! Do not ignore it. Change your lifestyle.
Not to be negative on such wonderful channel but not a fan of this doctor. He always have this "we can't do much anyways" "everything is already destined" given up tone. This is just my personal opinion.
Omg, He is the best doctor ever on heart and anxiety!!
1:04:40 best advice EVER! Thank you Doctor.😊🙌
I started crying when he said that… ❤😢
Wow I needed this. Back in May I got my drink spiked on a trip to Amsterdam and woke up in hospital. I remember small parts of the evening and 2 days later I had my first ever panic attack. I was convinced it was a heart attack. Wound up in hospital again and had blood tests, X rays, ecg’s taken and was told I was fine, but suddenly after 37 years on this planet. I had anxiety 🤦🏼♂️. It comes and goes but since November iv been terrified something is wrong with my heart. For about 3 weeks I’d have sleepless nights and woke up with my heart pounding!! That has more or less settled now but the worry is still there. I still get pains in my chest and I feel like I’m going to panic about it. Work wasn’t helping. The dare app has helped me A LOT!! Literally help me get through the last few months. I know it’s anxiety. If it was a heart problem surely something would have happened by now 😂. This video though has been so informative. Would love to meet this doctor. 1 in a million!
Aida your hair does look amazing! I’ve been stressed lately while on my road to recovery from anxiety, but I just don’t even care anymore. I experience sensations at night but now I’m just like “whatever”. I’m doing everything I need to be healthy. I can’t avoid stress forever.
Its unfortunate for us that you're not accessible to all of us all the time but you'd have no life of your own. That's why your videos are so valuable. They educate, explain, assure, comfort and calm these fears. I love listening to you and welcome it all. Heart problems are scary and a great Cardiologist is a gift - and you are great, Sanjay! Thank you! 💕
My mom has “high blood pressure” but lately she hasn’t been taking her meds because she’s ran out of them, and we’ve gone to get her blood pressure checked and it’s been normal. So it’s kind of interesting. One time the doctor even increased her meds and the pharmacist said no. Based on her blood pressure readings, it’s really not necessary.
Thank you for this video. As someone who suffers from specifically cardiac health anxiety, this video made me feel a lot better. Dr. Gupta is so reassuring, and you're both so kind.
How are you feeling now @arianagugora6811
Thank you for all your continuous hard work for the heart anxiety sufferers, Dr Gupta! I've followed you on and off for the past 13+ years. Best wishes!
So wild I'm watching this. Because when I first developed super bad health anxiety, specifcially over heart related things, he was someone I came across looking into POTS as my symptom, etc.
He's still one of the biggest MDs in POTS, I am shocked he has gone down the route of brain retraining as possible fixes, given POTS is nervous system related.
35:45 to 42:40
Who is this doctor? He sounds amazing!
Sanjay Gupta. He has his own videos along with a few with DARE from years ago
1:04:20
This is the only Advice which is going to rock and shake the floor.
He said it all just in 2 minutes.
When Rumi said
"Why do you stay in prison when the door is wide open?"
Dr Gupta points the same line.
- You can be worried about your heart and get a car accident,
- you can be worried about the heart and get a fall from a height and die.
All you've to do is to stay at the moment!
this is sooo helpful and deeply explained thank you! i got a little anxious when he said that if they dont get worse while exercising than i have nothing to worry about...mine does sometimes so i was thinking about why did i skip out on the stress test?? but i also been working out very intense and nothing has happened besides palpations. so i just need to trust my body because i would have been had a problem
Don’t make your anxiety worse by worrying about your heart… that’s me entire issue. I’m
So worried about my heart my anxiety shoots me to the moon to the point it’s debilitating…. I’ve had so many tests and everything comes back normal. When will I say enough is enough 😢
I recently found this podcast and have been listening on Spotify but this specific episode rubs me the wrong way... As a person with GAD, PSTD and having dealt with health anxiety since I was a child, I was diagnosed with a heart condition (PSVT) some years ago and there are several facts that don't seem to fit into what is being told in this episode. I was getting episodes pretty much randomly, I could go a whole year without an episode and then it could happen 4 times a year. I could go get checked and all my tests would be absolutely normal, even my holter monitor test was normal and all that didn't mean I didn't have a heart condition. To add to this, I was 28 when diagnosed... as is most people with congenital heart rhythm conditions, some are children. The first time I went to the ER, I was fully dismissed and told it was a just panic attack, because it's becoming pretty common to brush potentially serious problems off by blaming it all on "just anxiety". I was so sure it was "just anxiety" that the next time it happened I was in absolute denial when I was told I had gone into AFib and didn't even have a clear idea of it was. I was "lucky" they recorded my heart rhythm on the ECG and I was diagnosed, some people don't manage to get to the ER soon enough and they are systematically gaslighted by doctors while they do have a condition. I feel the focus is always on healthy people who have health anxiety, but what about us who have DIAGNOSED conditions and have to deal with health anxiety? The "I'm healthy, nothing bad will happen" speech doesn't work for us.
I was also diagnosed with a rare neurological disease after months of experiencing symptoms the doctors (and therefore, I) kept brushing off as "just anxiety". Pretty lucky it didn't end up in paralysis or something worse but it has left physical and psychological sequels I have to deal with on a daily basis. There has to be a mid-point in all this or else it feels like just encouraging more medical gaslighting, negligence and psychological abuse (coming from doctors) towards the patients who have actual conditions.
He covered your specific condition.
PSVT isn't a heart condition, it's more of a symptom. It's proximal super ventricular tachycardia. Its a fast HR that occurs sometimes. Like palps & etopic beats It's rarely life threatening..... that's why he was stressing how we should work to get rid of the anxiety around those symptoms because stressing ourselves over them does actual damage.
I don't feel like he was blowing anything off at all.
Question I've asked in other places and never got answered:- Why is the EF so reported on and seemingly significant, when it doesn't actually signify the amount of blood being delivered to the body with each beat-the stroke volume. I mean, your EF could be 65% but if it's only a teaspoon of blood-it will not be enough!?
I don't even have anxiety around my hearts goings on and I found this helpful 😁
I get frequent chest pains due to anxiety and cardiac work up is normal. Any advice?
I have a thought line of questions for which I wish I could get a "sanity check". Say you have episodes of lightheadedness, nausea, peripheral paraesthesia, and even chest discomfort (repeatedly found "normal in the ER until you don't go anymore). You check your pulse and the rate and the rhythm are normal. What are the chances that the sensation is caused by an INOTROPIC deficiency for some reason? (I'm just imagining vasospasm, for lack of anything else to consider.) And say you check blood pressure too, and it's normal. Now what are the chances? A little background info: I have had these episodes for over two years, ever since a tickborne illness and long COVID triggered an onset of ectopic episodes and even paroxysmal SVT, which all went away within a year. Now I just have the weird sensations. And it is absolutely gastrointestinal related, especially after too much coffee, too much sitting (driving or at a computer), and most powerfully leading up to a bowel movement, triggering even a cold sweat and achy legs.
So it's safe if palps are under 20min. What if I had it half a day? Because of sensitized nerves?
Dr sir my son age12y with pfo 4mm l-r shunt,what should we do,we are from India,how to find clot before stroke,can we find clots with which tests
So I have. Been feeling my pulse strong and I can visibly see my pulse jumping in my stomach and feel it all over. Im dealing with anxiety and i have been to the doctor 4 times already. Does anyone on here have similar symptoms. And is it normal ?
A Local Cardiologist told me
You can worry about your heart and still get an attack.
So get these thoughts out of your mind
24:01
If a person has a high blood pressure, I would investigate with blood tests to check cholesterol levels. If both are high, then surely that says something! Do not ignore it. Change your lifestyle.
Not to be negative on such wonderful channel but not a fan of this doctor. He always have this "we can't do much anyways" "everything is already destined" given up tone. This is just my personal opinion.
Really? How about just after the 41 minute mark?