The Dr. at the ER did give me a paper to have the echocardiagram. I haven't talked to my PCP yet but I would say it will be sat up soon.

When I called him last night he pulled my file and said that I had been in for the heart problems in 1998 and 2003 and that I needed to go in to the ER to be checked out.

In 98 I had an angiogram that showed CAD and I also had a stress test that showed I had a heart attack and I had a brain scan that had showed a stroke. They put me on nitro, procardia and Imdur but I had trouble taking them so I didn't.

Then in 2003 I had another angiogram and it showed basically the same. I dont' have a heart Dr. now though. I didn't like the one I had at all and I just never looked for another one and after all of the problems Bill was having finding a good one around here I didn't bother.

My problem has been that I have TOS and Costo in the chest area and they have had problems seperating them all and one gets the other one going. I laid in that bed last night and my TOS started going from the chest pain. I made them let me go. I actually took the blood pressure cuff off and the thing off my finger that reads the pulse. I couldn't do the IV or I would have. After 5 hours I had to get out of that bed.

My PCP has always had to get me out of the hospital early because of the chest pain problems. I start having panic attacks due to the chest pain.

Like you I get felt like I wasn't getting enough done by my heart Dr. and my PCP does keep an eye on me so I just didn't go back to the one I had.

As far as the RSD I have been told that I have RSD in the chest area too but I sometimes wonder if that is the case with me.

What got me last night in that hospital though, they never ask me any questions about my past problems and they tried to put me on Protonix. They didn't even notice I was already on Prevacid. When I told the nurse she ask the Dr. and he said just to stick with the Prevacid if it works. They don't even pay attention to what they wrote down.

Ada