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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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thank you and you also
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.
vitamin D 3 NOT D e sorry but 5000 nits a day i take 10,000
@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
reading all this is sounds more and more like the pancreas....i think its pancreatitis. my uncle had that and you have the excapt symptoms he had
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1 Reactionyes 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.
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1 Reaction@debiobrien Oh my goodness how horrible that had to be . Glad your o.k. now. I only had 2 caths but that had to be so scary for you and your family. Then to have fibro on top of that and whatever else . In 05 I maybe repeating myself I have a fracture on the L2 now it in pinching my nerve going into my leg so just in for a cortisone shot. The Dr. suggest a spinal cord stimulater but I'm not getting it . This is scary for my as the things that could happen breakage ,infection that alone scared me of . My injection so far is holding . I will google what you had . Cant sleep but am getting there so will call it a night .
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1 Reactionyes i have had a rough life for sure medically. this fibro is the worse. I also have an immune deficiency which causes a lot of issues. and nothing they can do about it. they also said i have central sensitization disorder which mean basically your central nervous system is a wreck. a lof of this is form growing up in a very abusive home and being severely abused...i also have PTSD from all the abuse so life i had every day. i wake up in ;pain and go to bed in paid and then the gastro issues makes it hard to eat so its a rough life but with gods help and my new natural journey i hope to get some relief of some or all of it. all we can do if keep moving and praying and keeping the faith....