Subject: back pain - anxiety attack - heart attack Background - starting spinning 6x a week and doing couch to 5k program 3 weeks ago. Husband left this week for a year in Afghanistan. Only adult in house of 3 kids. So high stress level is a given in my life. So, last night after dinner I develop a increasing level of pain in my back - both sides of my spine and approx. 1-2' below the shoulder blades but definatleky limited to beside the spinal muscles. I take motrin to no relief. Heartburn? take some tums... no relief. By 1130 EST I'm on phone with sister Bootygirl PST crying thinking I'm having a heart attack - booty is thinking anxiety due to stress in life right now. I had no chest pain, no arm pain, no light headedness, no rapid pulse - I kept taking pulse.... nothing but severe back pain that mortin which always takes away pain on me didn't work this time. While on phone I take a hair brush handle and place it in the muscle that hurts and the computer chair and press - RELIEF! I do this for 20 minutes and feel better although still crying... Try to sleep but by 3am I'm now thinking I need to vomit... but doesn't happen. At 330 I try heating pad and a tv show... by 310 NO PAIN. fall asleep around 4 with heating pad on my back. I wake at 8 with no pain at all - but feel like the muscle is very sore from releasing all the tension it was holding on to. Calling doc to get checked out today - in meantime any thought of what happened last night? Back muscle pain, anxiety attack or heart attack?? Cathleen |