Post Heart stent back pain

[RATP]

Hi. I was in an acute coronary unit for a week that culminated in angioplasty and a Stent. I have to go back for another in a few weeks. Since then I’ve had a very dull background back ache between my shoulder blades. Is this normal?

[Lew15]

Hi. I had the same for a long time following a HA and stents fitted in Jan 2020. I may be wrong but i put it down to some sort of muscle spasm from when I suffered the HA as the back pain at that point was awful. The only thing that has eased this back pain is a very thorough sports back massage which helped relaxed some pretty tense back muscles. May be totally unrelated to the HA and stent fitting but it helped me.

[RATP in reply to Lew15]

Many thanks. Keep well.

[Hearty21]

Hi. I’m suffering from exactly the same. I went to see Cardiologist and he said this is not much concerning. But it limits my activity.

It gets worse if I do any exercise.

Pain stars left side of chest, goes straight back and sometime in shoulder / arm