Hello Yachmene,

Cardiac symptoms are common in the conditions listed in the links below and the symptoms are often misdiagnosed as MS related or may occur in conjunction with other forms of demyelinating disease.

From personal experience, two of the four bouts of transverse myelitis that I've experienced began with symptoms similar to what you describe (heart attack pain and arrhythmia), then developed with further neuro-muscular symptoms from there.
Over the years I've learned that for many, TM doesn't always present with the classical sudden onset of numbness and lower body spasticity, but instead comes on as abdominal or cardiac symptoms.

Hughes disease is another possible reason for the cardiac symptoms and anemia/low iron absorption that you are experiencing.

Hope that you feel better soon and that the links below offer some potential for further investigation.

With love, Erika


Transverse myelitis
http://suite101.com/article/understa...yelitis-a73762

Anyone with an MS diagnosis should be tested for Hughes syndrome/antiphospholipid syndrome as it is often misdiagnosed as MS or as circulatory/cardiac disease.
It is just a simple blood test but frequently the antibody is not tested for as many physicians/neuros don't know to look for it.
http://www.hughes-syndrome.org/symptoms.htm

Lyme disease cardiac manifestations
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11982302

Scalene muscle spasms & trigger points often occur with MS because of spasticity of the neck musculature.
http://www.triggerpointtherapist.com...troublemakers/