ok im a 28 year old male, 5’10, 240 lbs (i know). this problem started when i was 179 lbs, running 3-10 miles a day, boxing, lifting, etc. I was due to go in for a double hip labral tear surgery, did a 10 mile run because i wasn’t sure when I’d be able to again, i had a little anxiety after the run, was sitting on a couch scrolling through my phone and i got what felt like a thump in my chest that also had the feeling of going down a drop on a roller coaster at the same time, it lasts for a fraction of a second, but it is a physical thump feeling in the center of my chest, anyway, i freak out a bit and forget about it. surgery goes well ( i didn’t die ) the hips still feel like shit, and i packed on alot of weight as you can tell in the 4 months of laying in bed and my only exercise being walking with a walker, leg raises and butt / thigh squeezes. fast forward 4 months, we move into a new house, we are finishing the basement and im going up and down off of a paint bucket to hit some spots on the wall, and boom, chest feeling is back. so anyway, im still used to being very sedentary, nothing is improving, i try to work out, little 3 mile jogs here or there, but the feeling becomes more and more frequent. i eventually start going to the ER quite frequently thinking im dying, due to the constant chest pain and these weird sensations. in total, the tests ive had in the last 2 years are, multiple EKG, chest x-ray, lung ct scan that also looked at my heart valves, a stress test on a treadmill, an echo, a holter monitor during which time i recorded multiple of the sensations and doctor saw nothing on the readings when i asked him about them, i had the test from a stomach doctor where they put a tube down your throat, they found acid, ive had pretty much every test aside from the catheter test to check your heart that way. I don’t know what to do. oh yeah i almost forgot, so recently ive been trying really hard to break my cycle of bad diet and no exercise, ive been doing a beginner hiit workout about 4 times a week, walking on treadmill or just going for walks, shadowboxing again, so after these workouts i stretch, and one of the stretches I do is i hold onto something and go into a deep squat, i make sure to breathe and when i stand up without fail i nearly pass out (im down there for like 30 seconds to a minute max) my heart starts thumping really hard, head starts hurting, the same thing happens from time to time walking upstairs, i can still run and feel fine, do a hiit workout feel fine, but if i walk up a flight of stairs my heart is pumping and im out of breath. so far im down 10 lbs. but i still feel absolutely horrible
to be fair to you and in hopes that i get a response I will be totally transparent, my diet is mostly spicy, whether that be if im eating chicken rice and broccoli for dinner, i will dump hot sauce on it, its like an addiction in its own, the spicy food. and I also use nicotine and have even since i boxed, i smoked when i was younger, vaped for about a year, and for about 2-3 years been chewing nicotine gum/ zyn/ other smokeless tobaccoless nicotine. I’ve went off of the nicotine for almost a weak and the sensations persisted. I am still open to that being the cause.
basically, I am a shell of my former self, i am depressed, I am lost, I feel like half of a man because im scared to bend over or do a squat or anything for fear of this sensation. I appreciate this forum and hope for a response. thanks.
OH By the way, all of my tests came back normal.