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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Did you ever find out what it was? I am experiencing similar.
Unfortunately I did not. It’s kinda gone away and now turned into abdominal pain.
Did it work
Chest pain can be caused by asthma. My asthma is worse when I come into close contact with dogs or cats. The pain radiates from the front to the back of my chest. It can take a couple of weeks to recover. I use an asthma pump that helps minimize the effect of allergens. Also for those looking for an answer for chest pain consider irritants as separate from allergens. For example spray room deodorant, hair spray, Windex glass cleaner, ammonia never fail to give me chest pain.
Similar symptoms after course of levoquin left me with gastritis in 2010. I’m not a fan of PPIs so took only limited course. Most recent similar symptoms have been from a bout of Covid. Even with vaccine and booster. I’m using Hawthorne extract and tea. Reading some newer info on mast cell activation. Found some relief with Pepcid. But don’t trust long term use of any of these.
Forgot to add that I’m much older than you. Risks go up with age.