'Doctors said I had anxiety - it turned out to be something much more sinister'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA young man who had his ‘debilitating’ chest pains misdiagnosed as anxiety for a DECADE was actually suffering from a heart condition.
Tom Roberts endured heart palpitations for years but doctors could never identify a cause. The 27-year-old often suffered a racing heart and serious bouts of fatigue but the symptoms were dismissed as panic attacks.
Tom was placed on numerous medications for stress and anxiety but nothing seemed to work. It wasn’t until years later that a heart abnormality appeared on a test for an unrelated matter – prompting an immediate referral to a cardiologist. READ MORE: New mum found out she'd lost eight-year job at Missguided 'from her colleagues' whilst on maternity leave It turned out that Tom has Wolff-Parkinson White (WPW) syndrome - where an extra electrical connection in the heart causes it to beat abnormally fast at times.
And, while at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport , Tom learned he needed a surgical procedure to destroy the additional electrical pathway.
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