I’ve made a few different posts in AskDocs, HealthAnxiety etc. This is driving me nuts. It’s been going on for over a month and a half. They’ve slowly gotten worse, but I’ve also been reading more and more about diseases, syndromes and conditions. 

This really all started when I started telling myself I was going to have a heart attack. 

     So here’s the symptoms: Dull Pain running through my left leg, behind my left knee, my left arm, sometimes my right arm but mostly left, pain radiates up to my left shoulder close to my neck— this pain almost feels like I slept on it wrong but it’s more dull and cones and goes. My LEFT INDEX FINGER.. (finger is hurting right now actually) sometimes my left thumb, index and middle fingers, sometimes my right hand, my left wrist and hand. Sometimes my face, mostly around my jaw, will feel kinda fuzzy.. Not numb, not pins and needles, not even fuzzy really. Same dull pain on the opposite side of my elbow.

    Back: Sometimes it will be a sharp pain/sensation that feels like a pulled muscle/ pinched nerve in the bottom corner of my left shoulder blade. One time I took my shirt off and moved my left arm back to far and it kinda locked up and hurt like hell, same feeling though. Sometimes (just now) there will be a nerve like “pain” (feels more like someone thumped me from inside my body) in my rib in my left back, adjacent to where my elbow would be with my arms falling straight down while standing.

    Chest: It “feels” like my heart but it doesn’t feel like my heart, if that makes sense. Like there will be a sharp quick pain on the bottom of my left rib cage, last 1-2 seconds and gone. Then closer to my sternum, right below my nipple, there will be a feeling that is close to a pain, but almost feels like a ticklish zapping stab. Sometimes it happens on my right side and center but it’s usually the left. 

Ear: My left ear more so but sometimes my right, sometimes it’s the ear drum and other times it’s just my ear. 

But I’ve never been dizzy, no bad headaches, no swelling, discoloration, soreness, no vision issues. None of the indicators that something could be seriously wrong. I just wonder what this is 

Every other day I’ll get stuck in my phone at my office scared that I’m going to die in my sleep at night or have a stroke or seizure and paralyze my left side. 

It’s been going on for well over a month. My rational side says “if something was wrong you would’ve died by now”. 


Does anyone else experience anything similar? I wonder if I gave myself these symptoms from reading so much? 

(Over a month ago it started with the weird zaps, dull soft stabbing feelings on the left side of my chest, then my left arm started to “feel” more than I do my other limbs. Not a pain or numbness or pins and needles, not even “fuzzy” just a weird feeling on my arm. And it’s slowly progressed into all the symptoms)