Months of Chest Pain - Please help

@debiobrien Thank you for explaining your diet. I hope you get well soon 🙂

@debiobrien Hi Debbie I am off sugar I notice when I eat it I hurt I drink Almond milk or fat free I should get of this Trying to find GF foods We have a good grocery store that has alot of GF items .I do feel better when I'm of this I will have to do better though.Thanks for your post

yes sugar is horrible for the body and also fibro. the almond milk might be ok but not regular fat free milk. all dairy products play havoc on fibro. I find a lot of gluten free stuff at publix and we also have 2 nice health food stores in town and i order a lot on line. i found some good coconut wraps online and they come in plain coconut, turmeric and moranga which mornaga is super healing and so good for you. i eat a lot of veggies, stir fried. steamed, or just cooked and even put them on skewers and grill them on the grill. i dont eat any meat except an occasional ORGANIC chicken. but thats because of the gastro issues all meat is super acidic. but with fibro yo know the foods to stay away from.if you dont you pay for it big time. B 6 vitamin is great for fibro ad D e 5000 mg and i take a lot of B 12 but now started getting a b 12 shot every month at the doc and its helping with the fatique. good luck and do your best to stay away for the foods that cause the flares. i also wear a wrist brace one each arm at night and they seem to help with the pain in my hands and arm,s and shoulders.

yes sugar is horrible for the body and also fibro. the almond milk might be ok but not regular fat free milk. all dairy products play havoc on fibro. I find a lot of gluten free stuff at publix and we also have 2 nice health food stores in town and i order a lot on line. i found some good coconut wraps online and they come in plain coconut, turmeric and moranga which mornaga is super healing and so good for you. i eat a lot of veggies, stir fried. steamed, or just cooked and even put them on skewers and grill them on the grill. i dont eat any meat except an occasional ORGANIC chicken. but thats because of the gastro issues all meat is super acidic. but with fibro yo know the foods to stay away from.if you dont you pay for it big time. B 6 vitamin is great for fibro ad D e 5000 mg and i take a lot of B 12 but now started getting a b 12 shot every month at the doc and its helping with the fatique. good luck and do your best to stay away for the foods that cause the flares. i also wear a wrist brace one each arm at night and they seem to help with the pain in my hands and arm,s and shoulders.

Now, I'm on 50 mg Desipramine and FD-gard but nothing seems to help either. The doctor ordered CT scan for my chest and abdomen now. Waiting for it to get scheduled. He also did a few tests like CRP, SEDIMENTATION RATE AUTOMATED, ANA SCREEN and LIPASE. All the tests were normal except LIPASE (The standard range is 13 - 64 U/L) but for me it was 79 U/L. The doctor said that the pancreas marker is very mildly elevated and it's a little hard to say if this is truly the pancreas issue or not. He will follow up after CT scan. What do you people think? Am I in the right direction of treatment? It's been almost a year now.

@debiobrien Good info thanks I read a study about the hands and fibro but never thought of braces I,ll give it a try .I'm also very concious of heart healthy diet as in 1996 I had a triple by pass I do B12sublingual plus my B vitamins

yes most people who have fibro have carpal tunnel to its kind of just happens. i bought the god braces with the metal strip in them. they go on the hand and up the arm a little. before i started wearing them when i woke up in the morning my hands, arms and shoulders hurt and with the braces non of that hurts... strange but it sure helps. also getting a deep muscle massage is a miracle. i go about once a month and i feel so good for about a week ...but its pricey so i can only go once a month but each time the relief is lasting longer. also espom salt baths but i use the dr teals tea tree scent epsom salts its awesome. its in a bright blue bag. good stuff. yes the B vitamins are great and also magnesium is great for fibro. but get a separate bottle of B 6 50 Mg and take it with your other b's your body needs a lot of B 6 for the fibro. I have coronary artery disease and have had 4 heart attacks (small ones) and 6 heart caths and 6 stents but all the stuff i doing is really helping all that and my heart has grown a ton of new arteries i juts had a cat a few months ago and the doc was shocked to see all the new arteries grown. did you get the fibro agter the By pass ?? just curious because its common for people to get firbro after a major surgery.

@debiobrien No I had fibro in early 90,s the by pass was in 96 so we've had alot in common then I do have s fractured back in 05 and workers comp which I got a nice settlement and this ended my working carrer as a nurse .I take B 6 and all b,s in 100 b complex but wonder if I need to take it separate because of my back which I have nerve problems from now I take 3pills of Mag.Malete every a.m. The hesrt surgeon tried a ballpark n at first in a few months it deflated my arteries where to small for a stint so had grafts put in.

yes we have a lot in common. in 2016 i was at a thirft store and had a heart attack. they took me ot a BAD hospital and a heart doc did a heart cath but didnt know what he was doing and he almost killed. i had a 100% blockage in a small artery called the diaganol 1 off the LAD. well he cute the artery and gave me another heart attack on the table. the entire artery collapsed and they had another doc some in and try and get the stent in and repair the artery. well it didnt work so every 3 weeks i had another heart attack to try and open the artery...i then found an expert in ocala and he said i had a 50 50 change of making it thru the surgery but he was going to try and stent the entire artery... well he did it and i survived but it didnt work i kept having mini heart attacks and severe angina. so the put me thru treatment called EECP. google it and see what it is. it was horrible going thru it but it saved m life. it grew tons or new arteries to take over for the one i had lost. plus new arteries i never had and also i had 3 other 40% blockages and it opened 3 of them totally and one down to 10%... since then i have been fine and had a cath a few months ago and all is good. My famly has some bad genes. lots of cancers and heart issues and immune things and i got them all. ate healthy all my life and worked out.. i did 25 years in law enforcement and in 2013 i got into a brawl with a pile of women and one grabbed me and thru me against a concrete building and i hit my head and both arms and it broke my neck and both arms. after a few surgeries im ok now but lost a 25 year career. thats when the fibro started for me bad but i think i had it for a few years prior to that...i have had 6 other surgeries and many injuries over the years. i have been worn hard and thrown out lol...and now over the past few years snce my retirement its all coming out and all the bad genes have hit me. its a hard life living in pain every day and then the gastric issues is horrible i just s\try and stay positive and pray each day it will be better. its all got to get better it cant get much worse lol. i have bad osteoporosis and had 4 compression fractures in my spine and now its beginning to curve towards my heart, not to good. magnesium Oxide ( MagOx) is better for the fibro than the malate and YES extra B 6 would be great for you at least 50 mg more. you cant take to much what your body does not need you pee out but B6 will help the fibro. yes my heart arteries are very tiny also that was the big problem with the stents and the diaganol is a small artery but mine was super small. ask your doc about the EECP it might help you a lot it grew me so many arteries and made the ones i had much bigger... watch a video of the therapy. its 5 days a week for an hour for 7 weeks and not comfortable but SO worth it. they put huge blood pressure like cuffs on both your legs al the way up to your waist and they put monitors on yo and this machine pumps those cuffs in between each heart beat . you kinf of bounce a little on the table.and you start at 80 pounds of pressure in the cuffs and end up at 200 pounds of pressure. they call it the natural bypass but it saved my life for sure.