chest pain again

[starshadow]

I just don't know how to describe it.
My chest pain is mild, but it is everwhere. It moves around.it is rightside sometime, leftside, up and down sometime.Is that possible?
Probably i am just getting crazy.

[tanns]

It is so very important to trust your doctor.  The first cardio I went to was so arrogant.  To his credit, he ran all the necessary tests and then some.  His office actually fought my insurance company for the CT-Angiogram which wasn't being covered by many insurance companies at that time.  BUT he was so, so arrogant.  I guess I felt like he blew me off and I really didn't trust his diagnosis.  He gave me xanax the first day (which I didn't take for 3 months and then I tried 6 of them --not at one time!!--and had a horrible experience).  I was really irritated that he prescribed xanax when I was sure I had a heart issue.   I didn't trust him and that was a big negative for me.  Find one that you TRUST and comes highly recommended.  I asked at the hospital where I had some tests done and at my church as well as some nurse friends.  I was so scared by that point that it took a trip to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville (after 3 cardios in my town)  to believe my heart was okay.  They were fantastic and I left there knowing that I was okay.  Unfortunately, I think that the year and a half it took me to get to that point messed things up for me.  I KNOW that my heart is okay, it has to be I've had too many normal test results on some pretty major tests.  But somedays (today is another one) I FEEL like something is wrong with my heart.  The shortness of breath and dull, achy pain is so PHYSICAL.  

I recently gave in and saw a psychiatrist.  It was an awful experience and I left there practically in tears and an effexor prescription which was immediately trashed.  That was my whole 20 minute (less) experience.  I should have looked for referrals there too.

Anyway, find a doc you trust.  Sooner rather than later.  It will really save quite a bit of unnecessary anxiousness.

[starshadow]

Thank you so much for your response.
Sometime i just can't get any anwser for my uncomfortableness from my doctor. He probably thinks i am overreacting too much with my symptom. he probably thought he had done all the necessary tests on me.
I am not trust him too much. it is reassuance that some people has same symptom digonsed by doctor with the same result.
thanks once again

[tanns]

I really do feel like I know what you are going through.  And if you are like me, nothing anyone says will bring 100% comfort.  I always felt (and still do) like I was "different", that my symptoms sounded the same but it was different for me.  

As I've told you before, I have no history of panic/anxiety or stress.  I had a job (before kids) where I had to testify in court about results of tests I had done that were pretty serious.  My testimony could have a part in sending someone to jail or letting someone go free.  I always felt that little butterfly feeling before I got on the stand.  I thought THAT was anxiety.  As soon as I was on, it was gone and never was around after I was done.  The feeling now is SO different than that.  

For example, today I am having chest discomfort (not really pain) but stuff that if I read about it online, it tells me to call 911 or go to the ER.  My jaw and neck are sore.  My left arm is feeling weak and of course, my chest feels achy.  THESE symptoms cause me to feel the "anxiety".  I fight hard every day to keep from working myself up over the chest weirdness.  On one of the responses to me on the heart forum from a doc, he said something like the "chronic nature of these pains over the course of the year leads him to believe the discomfort is NOT cardiac in nature".  Wow, that made me feel better.  For the day!!!  

I would get tested, if you haven't yet.  Go through the cardiac workup, it will hopefully ease your mind.  But please don't totally discount anxiety.  I am truly believing that the mind is very, very powerful and is more complex than I ever imagined.

Also, I would see a good internal med doctor.  I was sent (after the cardiologist)to the gastro doc.  Apparently a lot of gastro issues can mimic heart problems.  One of the most common being GERD (which I thought was ridiculous--I fought anything that wasn't heart related for over a year) and gall bladder issues.  I know 2 nurses that thought they were having heart problems and ended up having to have their gall bladders removed.  These are NURSES that were fooled by the refered pain of the gall bladder!  It happens.

Good luck and get better soon!!!