[chaos]

I'm not sure what happened. I never felt it before, and I had a really hard time explaining it to my husband who saw it happen, so hopefully my explanation here is good enough.

I was making dinner and had had a drink with my husband before hand, which is rare, but it's not like I had a lot of alcohol, just a drink before dinner. I started getting all hot and sweaty, needed to sit down, I thought maybe the drink hit me funny. Within a few minutes I had this horrible pain in the middle of me, on my right side, between the breast bone and diaphragm, inside of me. I broke out in a cold sweat, grabbed a pillow to hang onto, curled up in a ball on the bed and cried. My husband has this weird zero point energy oils that he's always trying on me, he put some on my belly and within a couple minutes I was doing much better, I also drank some water. I seriously was considering telling him to call an ambulance and I'm glad his hippie meds did the job. During this time I wasn't sure if I needed to puke or get an inhaler. It was not like the "hug" I felt before, there was no waves to the whatever it was, but the best guess I have is it was some kind of muscle thing in the middle of my body.

This morning I'm kind of doing so so. Thought about calling in for work, but came in anyway, I'll leave if the pain starts again, or if I get too nauseous. Plus I'm two blocks from the hospital here at work.

My best guess is that it was some version of the hug. But I'm wondering can it manifest itself in different patterns each time? Is it just taking my stress and fatigue and grabbing a random area of my torso to pick on? My husband thought something was pushing on the muscle wall of my right lung because of the way I was breathing.

[SallyC]

Scary Chaos.. Glad you're OK..

DH's Hippy Meds...LOL!

[mrsD]

Pain after consuming alcohol is a sign of
Lymphoma.

In the early phases lymphoma is difficult
To identify. Sometimes this strange symptom
is all there is.

Try alcohol again in a couple of days
and if this repeats, I'd see a doctor
about it.

I am on an iPhone and don't know how
to links....but you can find more on
Google with keyword...lymphoma alcohol
symptoms...

[chaos]

Thanks Mrs. D. Good think I don't drink very often! [Imagine a bunch of bad words here] That would be super sucky, but something I should look at as my Dad's bio brother or bio dad had Lymphoma or some other kind of cancer like that (I think between the two of them there were three cases of cancer, the lymphoma, pituitary or brain and prostate).

There is a spot on my right breast that has been hurting, but not in the breast, kind of behind it. I've been ignoring it since I thought it was part of my neuropathy. But I have been feeling myself up a lot looking for something that shouldn't be there. I'm looking at this image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bl...6_lymphoma.png
and where it hurt there are lymph nodes on the image. Totally ****ing awesome.

I've been having night sweats since Dec 2012. I've told more than one doc about it. Nobody looked into it further, my endo said it wasn't hormonal. And of course every symptom I have is part of like a billion diseases, so I know my symptoms could be anything and won't freak out, but will make sure to bring this up.

I know, call the doc. I just don't want to.

[tkrik]

Was it possibly a gallbladder attack? Alcohol could have brought that on.

Also, when was your last mammogram, if you've had one. You may need to have one done to check the area and make sure nothing is going on in that breast.

Lymphoma is always a possibility, unfortunately. So, I think a call to your PCP may be a good idea.

For me, the hug is constant and it can change a little depending on if I have the nerve pain or not. Sometimes it's just a constricting feeling, others it's constricting with nerve pain ripping through it.

[chaos]

Never had a mammogram. Turning 40 next month so I have never been told to have one. I'm sure I'll have to do it now.

Pain was too high to be the gallbladder. Plus I don't eat a lot of fatty food, the only thing I had to eat that day before this happened was half a big turkey sandwich and a few grapes off the vine out back.

The pain was NOT nerve pain. I've had way too much of that so I know what it feels like.

[My3sons]

Originally Posted by chaos

Pain was too high to be the gallbladder.

My gallbladder attack was high in my chest and in the middle between my shoulder blades. I had eaten around 5:00pm and the pain started around 10:00pm. I thought I was having a heart attack. I finally threw up and the pain want away. You really need to get checked out. It may not be MS related at all. Hope you figure out what is going on.

[chaos]

Went to the doc, he thought/hopes it was an esophageal spasm. He said most patients who get that end up in the ER thinking they're having a heart attack. Told me to take prilosec for two weeks (to see if it helps at all, while we're waiting), up my zoloft a bit, and take a blood test to test for all the horrible things I'm thinking about. I told him (reminded him) about the night sweats and inconsolable fatigue I've had lately.

So lets hope for the best. At least I got the lab request.

[cdwyer49]

I hope you're feeling better!

[tkrik]

I get esophogeal spasms. They're not fun. I have a script for nitroglycerin that I keep with me. It does help the spasms. Hopefully, the Prilosec is helping you and you are feeling better. Have you heard back on the test results?