Wow! I'm amazed at the replies....what a shame that so many of us suffer with this anxiety. I've never smoked and try to exercise and control my weight also. I'm 56, am 5'11" and weigh about 175. The bicycling is what I do for aerobic exercise. I've had all the tests too as I mentioned along with thallium stress tests. Everything has always been negative. I would definitely go for the CT angiograph if it shows stuff in a non-invasive way. I do have a tranxene prescription which does very little to help so I don't take it. (I think I need somthing a lot stronger) In the past, I took elavil (amitripyline) on a regular basis which seemed to help. Anyway, my cholesterol was slightly high (over 200 total) so I used to take pravachol and got the total down to about 175. Then a few years back I went off this and moved to high doses of omega 3 and red yeast rice and got my totals down to amazing numbers (I could hardly believe it!) of 135 total and ldl of 75 and triglycerides of 75. But my ck rose a bit so I had to reduce the red yeast rice (supposedly a natural statin equivalent of mevacor). I'm back on a lower dose of the red yeat rice and get blood testsin abou a month to see the status of the ldl (which had risen back to about 120).

Anyway, when I get a pain or tightening in my chest, I panic. Depending upon my emotional strength (who knows what controls it anymore) I can deal with it or I go into a panic and a real funk. I think what helps us all is knowledge of what our REAL condition is. But then we don't believe what the Dr's say, do we. We question them and are convinced that they missed the real problem. Did any of you watch the Lord of the Rings? I feel like Golum somtimes - fighting with myself - the logic and intellect vs the emotion.

We have to hang in there and keep posting!

Thanks,
Tom