Hello everyone this is my first post, as I am new here. I am a 29 y.o. female always been very healthy with a strong healthy heart. Always been athletic and strong have no health issues but some mild asthma. I smoked for about 10 years and this year will be two years since i quit. I have had left sided chest pain for going on 7 weeks now. It has progressively gotten worse and worse. I will occasionally get a day here and there when I feel good enough to get up and do something but have missed over two solid weeks of work and been in bed a good 85% of the time I have been off, as my chest pain seems to get worse when I am not sitting completely motionless. But that isn't to say that is the only time it occurs. It can hit me when I am just sitting still and totally relaxed and when it does, sitting completely still until eventually I am able to doze off is the only thing that helps. When I wake up, usually it will be gone even if I only have a 20 or 30 minute nap. I have none of the ten tablets of 0.25mg Xanax that the E.R. gave me left. I was breaking those tiny things in half and trying to make the most of them. I got them a month ago and now they are gone. Anyways my doctor had me wear a halter monitor home today and I go back tomorrow to return it and have it read. Of course I had a really good day today and no chest pain to speak of. Of course when i need it to rear it's ugly head it's not there. My question is, if there is something wrong with my heart, will it show irregularities even if I am not having the chest pain? My echocardiogram and EKGs all came back good too. This isn't anxiety or panic chest pain. I have had that before this is different. Although I know the pain doesn't result from anxiety or panic, I do get both anxiety and panic from the chest pain because I fear I am having a heart attack and I don't want to die. It gets really bad out of control sometimes and I think my body starts to go into shock from so much fear I know it's so unhealthy. I have changed my whole life around In these past weeks. Started going to church, got baptized, stopped ingesting loads of sugar and sodium and cholesterol stopped drinking anything but water. I realize there is probably nothing unique about my situation and i thank you all for taking the time to read this.
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Severe chest pain almost daily
Hey there. Can you remember a time right before the pain started that may have resulted in muscle strain? I had a similar experience prior to my injury that caused my anxiety. Sharp chest pain, would double me over some times. My then boyfriend, now husband made me go to the ER for tests and they all came back fine. It turned out to be severe muscle strain from helping one of my CNA's on a night we were short staffed. The pain came and went and I felt with it for months before it buckled me at work. I do know, however, that since my accident, when my anxiety kicks in the pain in my neck and shoulders gets more severe from tensing up. Just a thought. Hope it helps lead you in the right direction.
Thank You Kj, I hope dearly it is something like that. The only problem is I have started feeling like my family and doctors think I am nuts because they haven't found anything. However, there are still many tests that he can still order to get to the bottom of it. Someone got me a little scared too that if get all of the tests done and still never find out what it is. I need to go back to work I think I'm going to at least give it a try tomorrow. I'm thinking positive, I have had a good mostly pain free day today. I could really get used to this easy feeling of no chest pain!!
After my injury, because TBIs can't always be seen on imagery if the don't use the right equipment and while at the hospital initially they didn't even do a brain scan, I have had 5 different neurologists refuse to see me. I felt so down and hopeless. I finally took my recovery into my own hands. I have pain constantly from the damage to my neck and shoulders, but have created my own all natural lotion to help it, I studied under a mindfulness master and am now able to teach others, studied energy healing and am back in school to become a holistic health practitioner. While holistics can't fix everything, I was tired of being made to feel like I was manifesting my issues.
What would you think about checking in with a chiropractor and a massage therapist?
Both might be able to help you.
Hey indigojoe, I saw a chiropractor back on March 31st. He cracked a bunch of my bones and stuff and I had such high hopes that it was going to get better after that but slowly got worse. It's not pain that I can reproduce by pressing here or there or moving a certain way. I have tries to reproduce it to make myself feel better about trying to make myself believe it's only musculoskeletal or something that heals easily. I have been doing nothing but resting for weeks now and I will get a couple of days in a row where I think yes Lord let this be the end of it!! And that has been the case yesterday and today I felt good had a couple of good days. I'm just going to keep thanking God each day I wake up with no pain and see where it goes. I will post updates soon like hopefully either a diagnosis or to say that it is just completely gone!!! I will get the halter monitor results hopefully before the weekend so we will see. Have a good night though!
Acupuncture. Sorry, I actually said that out loud before I typed it. And if you are willing to go deeper into the energetics side of medicine, I would she if you could find someone near you who knows how to read Chakras. I will bet you have a blockage.....energy blockage. I could if you happened to be in my area. I would bet after a couple sessions you start feeling better. Just a thought, I know its a bit far out there for some people, but learning energy medicine has helped with some of my own stuff.
Thank you KJ. I will look into that. There aren't many things I wouldn't be willing to at least try. Hope you have a good weekend!
Well I guess the halter monitor picked up tachycardia or something and my doctor wants me to take Metoprolol 25mg at bedtime. He wants me to go back to see the cardiologist that did the echo and said I was fine. Now thinking that something is the matter with my heart is making me have anxiety especially when the chest pain gets bad and im thinking about it being my heart that's causing the pain. I am so weak minded i wish I were stronger. Thank you both for talking to me about it though I appreciate that.
Take a deep slow breath, hold for 3 seconds, then slowly release. Repeat this focusing on your breath and think of a happy thought. Continue for 5 min holding that thought. Let me know how you feel after your 5 min. Ok?
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