Chest pain

[Essexlil]

Hi, when I’m under medicated I suffer regular bouts of quite severe chest pain, but it goes away within about ten minutes. I’m not suffering them at present as my levothyroxine dose seems ok. I’ve been afraid at times that I’m having a heart attack - can anyone please advise me what these pains are as I often read about them as a symptom but nobody ever says what is causing the pain, ie heart,muscular neurological?

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Janspenc

Nobody here will be able to tell you what they are or what is causing them. Have you discussed them with your GP and had any investigation done?

[Essexlil in reply to SeasideSusie]

Hi, yes I had dye injected into my veins and a CT scan and my arteries and heart were fine. I also had a 48 hour blood pressure/heart monitor and all was fine. This was all before Hashimotos showed up on blood tests

[Hidden]

Explain the pain to your GP. I also had shortness of breath and GP ordered chest X-ray and ran ECG ( nothing showed up) and referred me to a respiratory clinic. Dr there was very thorough, checked me over, took history then ordered blood tests ( I counted 40 results) breathing tests ( which came back at exceptionally good for my age) and full body CT scan—- nothing showed up.

I deduced it was low B12 which caused the shortness of breath ( it resolved with supplements) and the chest pain was costochondritis ( resolves in minutes with heat applied to chest) But could only do this after everything else was ruled out.

[Essexlil in reply to Hidden]

Thank you for our help - don’t think I’ve been tested for B12 deficiency

[Hidden in reply to Essexlil]

It’s worth checking. I was one point inside the range so GP wouldn’t treat me. I learned about self injecting on the PA site, made such a difference.

Make sure your GP checks everything.

[Essexlil in reply to Hidden]

Ok thank you

[FaithnHope36]

Check this out. It was very helpful to me.

youtu.be/vbhTyOThDVM(Not working as expected?)

[Essexlil]

Thank you that was very interesting. I totally agree with the sub-clinical symptoms - I had symptoms for years before Hashimotos showed up on blood tests