Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has these symptoms. I am w/f 50 yrs old. I have a mitral valve prolapse and acid reflux disease. I am left-handed.
My arms get weak easily. If I do anything like sweeping, mopping, raking leaves, scrubbing, or lifting anything heavy, a few hours later I develop a tightness and heaviness in my chest that is very, very uncomfortable. It usually lasts a week or more. Sometimes it is accompanied with pain in my shoulders, neck, numbness in the left side of my face. Sometimes a strangling feeling or choking feeling in my throat. I don't think it is my heart since I have had this for the past 20 years. When it first started I went to the ER because I thought I was having a heart attack. Now I have realized that it only happens if I use the muscle in my upper body. I have done a lot of heavy lifting since I was in my teens. I don't know have anything that I do for it except try to take it easy until the symptoms go away.