Chest pain and ER visit...
 

I don't think things can get any worse for me...Although I know a lot you probably deal with more than I do, so please don't take this as me thinking no one is suffering more than I.

Back to Chest Pain and ER visit...Around 6:00 pm last night I was taking a walk with our neighbors, not exerting myself. They have a two year old that was walking with us, so you can imagine there was a lot of stopping, then walking, then stopping and walking. So no real exertion. However, I became short of breathe during the end of the walk. Then my husband, son and I went out to eat. At that time my chest started to hurt. Once again became short of breathe, could not take deep breathes at all. It didn't hurt to move my upper torso or arms, just chest pain on left side behind left breast area. So I called the doctor on call and he, of course, told me to go to the ER.

Once in the ER they worked pretty fast to get me in and take EKG, blood and hook me up to the monitor. Doctor however felt that because I was only 33 that it couldn't be cardiac problems. He did a chest x-ray and gave me some gastrointestinal cocktail.

I take Prilosec every day, so I didn't think that that was the problem. Explained this to physician, but he still insisted that it was. I don't even think he waited on the blood test to be done. I was in and out with in 2 hours.

I went in with pain being on scale of 1 - 10 of an eight. I left the hospital with a nine. I explained to them that he hurt worse. I went to go to the restroom while in the bed, and that made my chest hurt worse. It purely exhausted me.
But they didn't seem to care. Still discharged in about 2 hours of total time.

My chest pain still has been alleviated by anything. He told me to double up on my Prilosec and the cocktail would take care of it last night. Well it didn't. I am still having pain and still can't take deep breathes. It is sharp when I try to take deep breathes, but is constant when breathing normally.

Does anyone have any ideas of what this could be? Has anyone with Fibro or some neurological problem dealt with this? I am very concerned. I have a call into my PCP and am waiting his call.

Missy

Do you have neck or spinal issues?
 

What does the pain feel like? Sharp? Stabbing? Burning? Pressure? Pinching? Ache? Cramping? Pulling or Pushing?

This will tell a lot if you can describe the symptoms. There is actually a nerve in the neck that wraps around to the chest wall and if the nerve is impeded or inflamed, pain can result in the chest wall. I am not saying this is the cause, but more detail regarding your physical condition or history, certainly would help me understand what is going on with you hun.

Missy - how are you doing?
any new information?

Hi Missy - I left you the Crohns post... I am going through the same thing right now. I just saw a pulmonologist for a full pft and will be seeing a cardiologist for an event monitor. It is a test that will monitor your heart for one month. No one seems to know what is going on with me either.. I become out of breath and sometimes have the pains even when I'm reading a story to my son. I'm new here and not sure how this works... Good luck and I'll be looking for you.
petunia

chest pain
 

I certainly hope you've got this worked out b y now, I just came across this forum today, your chest pain to me sounds like a blood clot in your lungs, they'll need to do a katscan they are VERY painful(pain is worse when laying down),

My clot was at first in my leg, to which my doctor kept telling me for a month was a pulled muscle, even though my leg was different color than other leg and had me putting hot packs on it (idiot doctor) even after I told him it started in my sleep. well, clot broke off and went to my lungs.. then for 3 weeks he told me it was bronchitis, till I went to ER and ER doctor sent me for katscan and found the biggest clot he'd seen anyone have and live through(it was touch n go there for awhile).

My problem is I have epilepsy, (controlled with dilantin) and as of late(last 4-5 months) I get woke up with tingling in my chest, worsens to hard painful hard to breath tingling, from start to end, lasts about 20-30 min. there's no clot, and after the stress test came back normal my doctor put me on icky anti acid b4 bed, telling me it was my tummy, today I again got woke up with it, so I took more anti-acid, it did nothing, and soon my arms were weak,
I was not 'upset' or 'hyperventilating'. I got up and walked toward bathroom, didn't get 10 ft, and had a seizure, aftr the seizure was over, the chest pain was gone. my seizures are rare, they stem from the part of the brain that controls blood pressure. during one, my BP get dangerously low, and pulse gets down to 32bpm. I've researched, and found one site relating to "chest epilepsy" but no real info on it.. any one know of this? or what I should tell my (new) doctor to look for? I'm also on Synthoid(hypothyroid) warafin(unknown clotting diorder) as well as dilantin(epilepsy.):confused: