Gender: male
age: 20
weight: 245
height: 5'11
condition: sharp chest pains on left side
smokes: no
drinks: no
drugs: marijuana
general symptoms:
-sharp stabbing pain in left side of chest
but closer to the center of my chest
-sometimes pain in arms and shoulder
-occasional neck pain
-nervousness/anxeity
this all started about 5 months ago, I was
sitting with friends at my home and
suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my chest,
I had just had a big meal and I thought
that was it but the pains continued, I had
everyone leave except my girlfriend, the
pains increased over that night, I went to
the er around 1am. They ran blood test
and ekgs and everything came back normal.
I wasn’t having a heart attack, but they
kept me there for 2 days and the pain
continued. They did a sonogram of my
heart and chest x-rays, everything came
back fine, they released me but never told
me what was causing the sharp pains in my
chest, the pain continues for the next 4
months, I went to my family doctor who is
a specialist in heart disease o and has me
do a stress test and ekgs, everything
comes back normal, but i'm still having
chest pains. He suggested it might be
gerd or an ulcer, but since I have no
health insurance I have no way of finding
that out. I started buying every over the
counter acid reflux medicine I could find,
(tums, zantacs prlsact otc, I even bought
a blood pressure monitor to record my bp
but its never gone higher then 120/80) but
it seemed nothing was helping, the pain
was still there. I began to develop
anxiety and convincing myself i'm going to
die. One night I was woken up by my chest
pounding and a cold sweat, I thought I was
having a full fledge heart attack so I had
my mom rush me to the er again, they ran
the same tests but still no signs of
anything heart related, and the doctor
told me I had a anxiety attack. At that
point I had told myself that all these
pains where in my head, and I was fine,
the pain was there but I just kept saying
its all in my head, until a couple of days
ago when the pain suddenly came back. It
was late at night and my heart started to
race, I took my blood pressure it was fine
but my pulse was around 110, I got freaked
out and went to bed, I couldn’t really
sleep and kept waking up checking my blood
pressure, still it was fine… I got up
and went to work (i'm a short order cook
at a busy golf resort) , I remember
reaching for something and getting the
sharp pain again. It feels like someone
is stabbing me in my chest, its quick, and
the sharpness goes away, but the pain is
back, for the next couple of days I
continued to have the pain, until the past
friday. I was working I had a bunch of
orders in front of me and I go to reach
for my knife and I get the pain again, but
this time it makes me keel over, I cant
take it, it's so intense, I rush out of
the restaurant and find a place outside I
can sit down and breath, the pain is so
intense I pause and don’t take a breath
till it goes away, the pain lessens and I
can feel the sharpness go away, my boss
(who is also my aunt) sees this happens to
me and throws me in her car and go to the
er (again!) we are there for 3 hours
waiting for the doctor to see us, I calm
down and the pain practically goes away,
he tells me that it doesn’t seem to do
with my heart or anything and doesn’t
give me any tests, just tells me to take
ibuprofen 3 times a day for 3 days, but
that was 3 days ago and the pain is still
here… please somebody tell me what's
wrong with me!!! Could this be angina or
heart disease (which I would hope would
come up on ekg and stress test), could it
be acid reflux or gerd? Could this all be
related to stress?
Email:
j_trell
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