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Months of Chest Pain - Please help
Hello all,
My name is Brandon and I'm a 34 year old male. I'm excited to get signed up on here and hopeful this may help my anxiety which is through the roof! I have been through ongoing chest pain for the past 4 months. The pain started off as a pinch on the left side of chest. It evolved into a pinch and pressure onto the right side of chest. It would be nearly daily, but didn't really get worse after meals or doing a lot of exercising. The pain then started radiating to my shoulders and sometimes into my arms but rarely. Now, it radiates into my jaw occasionally. I get a wierd fluttering in my chest occasionally when I lay down, but when i sit up and get doing stuff I don't realize it much. Now the chest pain mainly feels like pressure in my chest snd i get occsssional sharp pains on the lower portion of my ribs and sometimes on each side of my sternum. What could this be?
Here's what all I've had done....
CT scan of heart and heart echo - found i have a slightly dialated aerota at the base that they will monitor yearly. I also have a bicuspid aerota valve with moderate regurgitation. Cardiologist does not think my heart is causing the pains. I have no blockages at all and they aren't concerned at all of a heart attack.
I was scoped and found i have a moderate to large hiatal hernia and esophagitas. They also did a manometry test and found I was having esophogas spasms. I am set to have a bravo test this week to see if acid reflux might be the cause. I bet that will show that is the case because I've had acid reflux since my late teens / early 20s.
During my CT scan, they saw a slightly enlarged lymphnode...which i think was on the right side of my chest. They said they would recheck that in 6 months. I had a cold or infection during that test and had some congestion and they say that may of been the reason for that.
I have been on a proton pump inhibitor, zantac and tums as needed but i haven't really noticed much of an improvement on them, if at all.
I have back problems and a neck injury as well. They also think that may be the cause of the chest pain. I had an MRI which did not show any nerve compression but I am constantly battling neck and back pain, sometimes severe.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks all,
Brandon
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Now I could be just laying around and have chest issues but I would love to know why even get headaches
Exactly, i had ekg done, the tests all clear. It could be a touch of anxiety but there is definitely something else. I find when i do get them to walk and see if its a wind thsts stuck, 80% of the time a walk up snd down stairs helps if not i take antacid that usually helps but def mine is diet
I hope lol
Yea I was told I was prediabetic
Yea I did stress test they check heart that's how I found out about my leaky mitral valve
Hey guys.. just another update went back to the doctor today because I’m still having the same issue with the constant swallowing & clearing throat now also nasty thick green phlegm but don’t have cough or any other symptoms except that at night when I’m in bed I can actually feel it falling in back of my throat so by the time I wake up in morning im spitting that nastiness out all day.anyone else ever have this with acid reflux? .. she told me to start taking the omeprazole once again this time for 3 months she swears it’s acid reflux so I’m hoping that’s what it is & this helps ! I also got my blood taken today they also did the h pylori breath test so now just waiting for results hopefully and praying everything is good ! Hope everyone is feeling good .. ☺️
Does it affect your throat like soreness that comes and goes
have you been screened for pleurisy or tb or mycoplasma pneumonia is the only alternateives .have you been exposed to asbestos or silicosis or also severe post nasal drip and or your throat may need laser surgery to tighten it as well
It’s horrible , another visit to the ER last week, once again all clear, doctor said it’s from my back, I still disagree ... really struggling mentally lately , I feel like I’m about to snap ... it’s really hard holding it all together
I’ll get the doctor to send me to a physiotherapist see if they can find anything, just someone else to say there is nothing wrong ..
My chest pain was from esophageal spasms. I was in a heart hospital for a week-Full work up. See a gastro doc.