Chest aches , dizziness , arm pain , tingling in arms , constricted throat?Please diagnose me because my Doctor has no clue
I am 33 years old and obese but I have lost 70lbs since all this started and it is still dropping . I was a heavy drinker and had a very sedentary lifestyle and ate terribly and my BP was often 150/100 and heart rate was always over 100-120. I woke up after passing out one night from the booze and had terrible chest pain and then after a few days it turned into my arms having bad aches this is when I thought I might be having a heart problem ..well no insurance forced me to wait a month to get checked then I went to the ER one night when it got bad and had
Chest x-ray , blood work , ct scan , ecg all of which checked out fine monitored me over night and was still fine . My Doctor did more tests Chest x-ray , blood work , another ecg and all fine ..she ordered a Stress test and a eco all of which checked out fine as far as they can tell . I went to the er again not long ago after more scary chest pain and again chest x-ray and blood work and yet another ecg all checked out fine .
I am going crazy with this because the symptoms don't check out with any one thing except angina which they say I dont have . I know now that i get panic attacks and that is what i believe I had on the first ER visit but the attacks happen because I get these wierd aches in my chest and light headed like im gonna pass out ..it feels for a minute like I am having the life sucked out of me through my chest it's hard to describe .
Now im on a BP beta blocker and it makes me get even more dizzy and my BP is usually around 100/60 which is good but when I am almost asleep ive checked it and it is down to 85/48 on average and heart rate goes down into the 40's ...which to me is a bit scary because im not an athlete like I said I am pretty darn unhealthy and way over weight ( about 100lbs )
Things it could be that I have tried to rule out on my own that are not heart related because I have had a lot of heart tests
GERD
Esaphogitis
Spinal Compression of chest/arm nerves ( I do heavy manual labor and I do have a very bad back meaning it aches all over all the time )
Throat cancer ( I dont smoke but have been around 2nd hand smoke a lot in my life )
Some kind of embolism, and many other lung problems ( I think they would have seen a problem in the chest x-rays or ct scan )
Costochondritis
Symptoms I get : Fuzziness in head , random aches in my head but not head aches sometimes they are sharp , chest aches all over my chest sometimes deep and sometimes feel shallow , Light headed and a bit dizzy ( this might be because of the BP medicine though ), aches in my arms but not as bad as I used to ..fingers get tingles in them a lot and like within the last month or so I have been getting this wierd constriction at the base of my throat and shortness of breath but my o2 sat is always good between 97-99%
Thanks for any ideas , clues or prayers
-kellana
could be gall stones...they cause pains similar to those you described...
-grandpops
ask for a referral if no change doctor
or call in your a.e if you are poorly
-Taylor Mae born Mothers Day! :)
you will me in my thoughts and prayers...
BUT OMG I get all that and have done all that as well and checked out normal....I do suffer from panic attacks and I do wonder the same thing about what I have doctors keep telling me its panic but I still don't believe them ( I also get bad heart flutters, they don't hurt they just feel weird) My heart rate is also in the 40's I do workout but I have not in ovr a month b/c of all my symptoms..weird feelings in my head sometimes sharp, I also will wake up with no heacache and then 10 min later I will start to get one right in my temple (getting an MRI done soon) my chest feels heavy I get shooting pains and somtimes dull aches and sometimes I get it so bad it hurts to breath..I alsways feel like I am being sat on or something. I get pains in my arms...One time my whole body went numb kinda like your arm falling asleep...my whole body did that at one time my head to my feet so weird and scarey. somtimes I wake up with chest pain. Most everyday I was dizzy or felt likeI was gunna pass out....100% of the time it started out with me wanting to pass out...then I would get all these symptoms and they would last for days. ANyways I have still been getting my chest pains but I try not to concentrate on them as much (which is sooo hard) and I have been taking fish oil 3x a day (which has helped with the chest pain) and I have been drinking about 2-3 liters of water a day (that has helped with the headaches) and I take liquid B-4, B-5, B-6, B-12 (that helps with the dizzyness and keeps me more alert) it took a couple weeks for things to work and all pains have still not gone away but they are not as bad as before! ( Maybe we just have panic attacks that bad :( ) I Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers and hang in there if you ever want someone to talk to e-mail me Ronnaataylor@yahoo.com
Good luck!
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