Can coffee make you feel this bad?

I stupidly had some coffee with my lunch just over an hour ago and now my chest feels tight and hurts, my heart is beating like a drum and I keep breathing deeply or yawning or coughing. I feel scared and like my heart is going to go any second. I'm really scared. I know I shouldn't have had coffee, I was just trying to fit in with my colleagues but now I really regret it. I keep telling myself that it's panic and that if there was truly something wrong with my heart at this moment that I wouldn't be typing this right now or that the pain wouldn't come and go. I hope this is correct.

It hurts to breathe and I just want to go home. My back is aching now, too. I feel really tense but my brain just keeps screaming that there's something wrong with my heart and that I'm done for.

I love coffee, like seriously LOVE it, but I gave it up because it was contributing to my racing heart and shakiness. And that then set off a bunch of other anxious feelings. Perhaps that is what happened to you. It may have given you those initial caffeine induced feelings that set off your anxiety.

Take care.

I do not have trouble with coffee but I am not a big coffee drinker.  Whether it is your anxiety or your GERD, it may be wise of you to just try giving up anything with caffeine in it.

Try to stay out of the 'what if?" anxiety lane and stay in the "I am OK" lane.  The more you over think "what" may be causing your symptoms the more anxious you become.

Know we are here for you and have great faith that you will be OK. Stick with us as we are here to support and share with you.

Kindly,

Kitt

Don't be sorry! That's what I have learned this place is for...helping to calm us when we can't calm ourselves. It's so hard to talk yourself away from the ledge sometimes. Once in a while you need someone to help. I think talking it through helps and hearing that you're not alone in your feelings helps, too. I have most definitely felt all the things you have described. Just this morning actually, so see, you helped me, too! Hugs right back to you!

And as always, Kitt, has great advice that I am taking with me today, too!

Janghwa No reason to be sorry my friend. Tempt the fates.........I love these sayings; jinx myself is another one. So what is to tempt fate? Have you ever had a strong feeling that something you wanted to happen in your life was on its way but, then you told someone and somehow it did not happen, despite having been so positive that it would? Have you ever felt hesitant to say something about a positive expectation, intention or idea because you didn't want to "jinx it" but you went ahead and said it anyway, while dismissing your reservations as superstitious nonsense with thoughts such as "what could possibly go wrong"? In fact, the more you believe that you create your own reality, then the more you are willing to dismiss the superstition that telling someone will tempt fate, because you refuse to believe that someone could have so much power over your life so as to "jinx you". Of course, when your expectation does not materialize, you label whoever you told a "jinxer" or you blame yourself for having tempted fate. In reality it is just life and your experiencing all aspects of it.  There will always be mental planning and pondering, but I’m trying not to let it divert me from the here and now.  I’m allowing myself to savor the moments and just be enthusiastic about them without the anxiety that often surrounds the unknown.  Focusing on the now is where it’s at. "Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we should dance." ღ ♫ ღ ♫ ღ ♫ ღ ♫ ღ   *´¨)   ¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨)   (¸.•´ (¸.•`Hugs, Kitt