Amy Robach Thought Her Arm Pain Was a Heart Problem, Says Anxiety Causes 'Vicious Cycles of Fear'

Amy Robach details the terrifying moment she believed she was suffering from heart problems after going jogging with TJ Holmes.

During the June 10 episode of their podcast Amy and TJformer GMA3 The co-hosts shared that the “serious moment” happened just hours before arriving at work. Robach, 51, said her anxiety has been “elevated” lately, which is one reason she thought she was having a health scare.

“We just went for a run and I was perfectly fine. About 30 minutes later my arm just started burning and I felt numbness and it was actually painful and it felt like a wave and I’ve never felt that before,” she explained. “It took a few minutes and I had to take deep breaths.”

“Since then I have had anxiety because my head was spinning,” she added.

Robach said she became nervous because she had not had a heart problem since she was 38 and underwent surgery to treat a “dangerous arrhythmia.”

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TJ Holmes and Amy Robach.

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“I just started freaking out like ‘Oh no, what if I have a heart problem?’ And I just couldn’t get rid of the anxiety,” she said, joking that she had “self-imposed palpitations”.

Both Robach and Holmes agreed that anyone who has had some kind of health scare or battle tends to overreact.

“You’re going into the worst possible scenario because it happened one time when you didn’t think it could,” she said. “Something that I would normally just laugh at, I suddenly think, ‘Now I feel a little dizzy, maybe I have a brain tumor.’ You fall into these vicious circles of fear and then eventually you have to somehow pull yourself back from the edge, exhale.”

Holmes then admitted that while Robach is feeling better now, he was very scared throughout the ordeal.

“I had to be cool, but I was in an absolute panic,” he said as Robach said she had no idea at this point. “I was taking off my running clothes and getting ready to go to the hospital.”

“We laugh about it now, but it was serious,” Holmes added.

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