chest symptom & my heart attack experience

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Hi everybody...anyone know about these symptoms: heavy feeling in

chest while lying down,centered in breastbone and radiating out,

mostly to left, pressure, occaisional small stitchlike pains under

breastbone around breasts,mostly to the left. Could this be muscular,

or does it denote a heart condition? Thanks for any

replies...regards, scarlett>

 

 

Hi Scarlett,

I read this last night and started answer you last night. I'm new to this list

and this is my first post here. I think it is unless I forgot about posting

before. I'm not a doctor, but I do have some experience with similar type

pains.

Are you still having the pains? Probably be a good idea to get it checked out

at the emergency room. I really don't trust any doctor's office to make a

diagnosis of a heart attack if you are having one. Especially after my

experience.

 

This was my experience when I had my heart attack. (Please read the 'PS' at

end of this post)

 

I had a heart attack and stent implant Feb. 1998. I didn't have the typical

symptoms of a heart attack. My pains were in both arms from the elbows down. I

went to 4 doctors, (the company doctor, chiropractor, rhematologist and family

doctor) and was told by all three that it was just pains from my Ankylosing

Spondylitis (a type of rhematoid arthritis). The pains in my arms were only on

being up and moving (they were throbbing pains) and would settle down and stop

hurting when I set or laid down. But, when I tried to do anything the

pains/throbbing in the arms were intense and I couldn't stop crying. I didn't

feel a sense of doom or panic either.

The arm pains started on a Tuesday at work and our Haz Mat medic at TI in Dallas

was off work.

The health department across the street was just about to close up. I made the

drive across the street and set there 15 minutes. The doctor said there was

nothing wrong and sent me home. (I saw the other 3 doctors in the following 3

days. They agreed with the TI doctor) On Saturday afternoon, the throbbing in

the arms became more painful and continued while lying down, sitting so I called

my husband at work in Dallas, TX. He drove home a one hour drive and took me to

the hospital emergency room. ( I didn't call the ambulance, because a neighbor

next door, to us had given birth to twins by the time the ambulance arrived, a

year before) By the time my husband got home I was starting to have chest pains

too. To me it felt like trying to give birth through the chest. Yes I had

been having mild heart attacks and stent was implant.

I was told that by the doctors nurse that I should have went to the emergency

room the first day. And that many women die because they don't have the same

symptoms as men. I know that's true. My mother died at 45 from a massive

coronary. I was 47 when I had my heart attack. God willing I'll make it to 53,

next month.

 

Since then I've been back to the emergency room twice for pains in the chest

that I thought were heart attacks. The first time they did an angio gram and

found some mild blockage. The second time they didn't do an angiogram. That

was 3 years ago. I was informed that it was most likely muscle spasms and/or

the Ankylosing Spondylitis in my joints.

 

I do have the Ankylosing Spondylitis in my ribs and all over now. I have simiar

pains on a regular basis even with the drugs generic Flexeril 10mg and Celebrex

200mg once a day.

I'm in the process of attempting to cut back and get off these meds. Help!!!.

I was prescribed the Flexeril 3 times a day and the Celebrex 2 times a day. I

have gone up to 3 days without the Celebrex, but I get so stiff and in such pain

that I can barely move and my joints (even the fingers) swell up.

Best Regards Tawny in TX

 

PS. Note off subject. (Maybe) If you live in SD, please ask your

Representatives to Please vote 'Do Pass' SB 192. It's a bill to open records

for Adult Adoptees. People are dying because they don't have the medical records

from their bio families. I am a Reunited Birthmom from Arkansas where the

records are still closed and a former Sunflower Birthmom (online support group.)

PPS. Being an Adoptee, Adoptive Family, Birthparent & Birthfamily does effect

your health in a negative way for some people. I was silent for 28 years.

Found my son (with lots of help) a year ago. He is 32 years old now. Yes we

are in contact and he has a wonderful Mother. And he told me that he had a

superior up bringing.

 

 

 

 

 

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