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Months of Chest Pain - Please help
Digestive Health | Last Active: Oct 24, 2022 | Replies (296)Comment receiving replies
I am new to all this so If in posting in the wrong place please correct me but 30 years old female and started having chest pains about 3 years ago and when it first started my first reaction obviously was to go to the local emergency room department which I did and they done an EKG and checked my blood levels and said it was acid reflux so I let it go for a while and started taking the medications prescribed and it continued for some time so I went out on my own and made an appointment with a cardiologist he done EKG an ultrasound and I regular stress test without the dye.... Then so then he gotthe test results back and said the exact same thing that the emergency room did and that it was acid reflux so I couldn't accept it so I made another appointment with another cardiologist in the next town over he done a EKG ultrasounds MRI hey did I another stress test with da he done pretty much all the tests he could except for a heart cath and he wouldn't do the heart cath because nothing pointed toward me needing it and said it was not my heart I have also been hospitalized for a night so my heart could be monitored and I could not find anything wrong with my heart .. so now I'm going to have a scope run down my throat to see if it's something there but it hurts so bad that I get ao scared. I've been called crazy several times.. I feel so alone.
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hi @crystal06 I am having similar feelings and wanted to see if you found anything helpful? thank you!
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@crystal06 Hi Crystal, I'm JK, a mentor on Connect. I am really most experienced in transplants and knee replacements so this is a bit out of my field of knowledge, although I do have Barrett's Esophagus, and I do take a PPI -- omeprazole.
You definitely seemed to have exhausted tests to discover if you have a heart problem, and thankfully they have all come up negative. You have been advised that it is acid reflux, and it does sound as if it must be. I presume what was prescribed was a PPI, something like omeprazole. They can take a while to really help I understand, so I hope you did not give up on it. If so, you should resume taking it. When an emergency room prescribes something they generally tell you to follow up with your regular doctor so I hope you have, or that you have made an appointment with a gastroenterologist. PPI dosage sometimes needs to be fine-tuned. The gastroenterologist I went to when my Barrett's Esophagus was discovered put me on a large dose of omeprazole initially, then after a month or two it was decreased.
I know how frightening it is to not know what is wrong and to be in pain. You do need to see either your PCP or a gastroenterologist, and I am sure they will help you get through this and find a medication for you that will give you the relief you deserve. In the meantime, you might try googling "diet for gerd" (Gastroesophageal reflux disease). There are a lot of foods that can make you feel worse if you eat them, like citrus, coffee, and anything acidic.
I will be interested in hearing what your doctor has to say. I hope you don't have to wait too long to get to see him/her.
JK