Hi Sandra,

I had chest pain for some time a few years back.
Being a cardiac nurse I had some thoughts of my own...there is a different type of angina common in women.

It's Prinzmetals angina - caused by coronary artery spasms occuring at rest. If you catch it at just the right time it shows on an EKG. But that is a rare one to catch. It happened to me mostly when I had been active and sat down to rest, but it can happen at any time really. I have a friend with it also.

Do a search on it (aka Variant angina) and you'll know if it is what you have. The EKG - if I remember right, which is rare now-a-days, the t wave is elevated insead of depressed.

Very hard to tell from esophageal spasms. I was given a beta blocker, Inderal , which made me much worse as it can CAUSE vasospasms, so I took calcium channel blockers & nitro patches...it can cause death due to the artery spasm occluding the coronary artery.
Hope

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