5 Years of Ongoing Chest Pain- Whats Wrong With Me? Posted: 07-24-06 04:38am
I have had chest pain for years now. I am
22 years old. The pain can be described
as fullness, tightness, sometimes (rarely)
piercing. I went to a doctor and he gave
me a ekg and an ecg (echocardiogram). He
said that there was nothing wrong, besides
a little valve leakage which was normal.
(i later found out its not normal for
someone my age, but for someone that is 35
or so) my fathers father died of his 7th
heart attack at 42. To add fuel to the
fire, I have a long history of drug usage
(dxm, amt, 5-meo-amt, n-benzylpiperazine,
mdma) most of these drugs are speed drugs.
I have stopped doing drugs, but I got to
the point while doing them that I would
get massive palpitations, some of them
frighteningly strange (spasms) and such.
Shortness of breath, sometimes difficulty
swallowing (lump in my throat) etc. I
have a stethoscope, and I have heard s3
gallops and such (a 3rd heart sound) that
were accompanied by a palpitation
(fluttering).
I dont think its congestive... I feel
like its just weak. Like when if you were
to hold your arm up in the air for 10
hours straight... How that muscle would
feel tired and sore. Thats the best way I
can describe the chest pain. I recently
broke my toe (while drunk) and I felt some
pretty hardcore chest pain that night. It
actually drew more of my attention than my
toe did. The next day my left underarm
muscle was sore. I listened to my heart
with the stethoscope for a bit while this
pain was occuring. It frightened me
because I was pretty worked up from the
toe and such and it was only going about
60 bpm. So I (on purpose) started shaking
heavily trying to work myself up to see if
my heart would speed up, and it didnt.
I dont excersize regularly. Infact, I
usually sit and play the computer or video
games. The main excersize I get is
delivering pizza 30 hours a week. Ive
noticed that this chest pain seems to be
degenerative (though that could just be a
skewed perception of it) alot of the time
I listen to my heart in the stethoscope it
seems to be perfectly healthy, though some
of those times the beats are not at solid
intervals.
There is one more thing... I dont know if
this is going to help diagnose the
problem, hopefully it does not just lead
you to believe I am delusional (thus
diagnosing a panic attack or something)
i was a heavy speed user (3-4 times a
month, at high doses mainly mdma or
adderall) for the past couple of years.
The chest pain was very apparent the day
following the drug usage. The worst
symptoms always came the day after doing a
speed drug. Some effects have lingered
beyond the usage. I did the speed because
I am a transsexual and on benzylpiperazine
(a research chemical, speed) a few years
back, I learned that I could mentally
alter some of my metabolic functions. I
learned how to atrophy muscle in specified
areas with my mind, at an alarming rate.
I would take the speed, and for 8 or more
hours while on it, I would 'shape' my body
to make it appear more feminine. The
easiest part to manipulate was always the
buttocks. As for proof, I have little
solid evidence (though I know it isnt
delusion due to the difference in how the
muscle has rebuilt itself over time after
the experiences, and how it looked during
and after the experience [i have pictures
too]) besides the fact that I once went to
the er after taking 3 pills of adderall
(90mg total) about 30 hours after the
initial dosage, complaining of chest pain.
They gave me a cpk (creatine kinase)
blood test and my ck was over 30 times
(not kidding) higher than normal. The ekg
suggested no heart attack however. Is ck
not an enzyme stored in skeletal muscle
that could be released upon indulging in
such activities (manually shaping my
body)?
Was this act dangerous to my health?
Could it be the cause of my chest pain?
Please do not tell me to stop doing drugs,
as I said I already have. I am curious if
you could tell me maybe what might be
wrong with me, and why I still have
ongoing chest pain. Some days are almost
symptom free, some are bad. I usually get
the chest pain if I stay up too late, and
it gets worse if I continue to stay up.
It is usually much better in the
morning.
The doc I went to that gave me the ekg and
ecg told me they were probably panic
attacks. Though I did not give him all
the information I just relayed here.
One of my main questions is: is there a
condition where the heart is weaker than
it should be? What is it called? But my
most important question is: what the heck
is wrong with me?