HAVE YOU ANY IDEAS AS TO WHAT COULD BE CAUSING MY CHEST PAIN?

[GABI]

FOR THE PAST YEAR I HAVE SUFFERED FROM SEVERE CHEST PAIN. IT STARTED OFF BY WAKING UP DURING THE NIGHT WITH PAINS IN MY CHEST. BY GETTING UP AND WALKING AROUND FOR ABOUT TEN MINUTES THE PAINS DISAPPEARED. MY DOCTOR PRESCRIBED RABEPRAZOLE AN ANTACID AS HE THOUGHT IT WAS A REFLUX PROBLEM,WHICH DID SEEM TO KEEP ALL SYMPTOMS AT BAY.A FEW MONTHS LATER THE PAINS THEN STARTED DURING THE DAY AND WERE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. THEY WOULD COME ON VERY SUDDENLY, THE SYMPTOMS BEING SEVERE CRUSHING PAIN AT THE BASE OF MY STERNUM EVENTUALLY RADIATING ROUND TO MY BACK ON BOTH SIDES, PAINS DOWN MY LEFT ARM AND ACROSS MY SHOULDERS. I WOULD ALSO BECOME VERY CLAMMY. TO ME I WOULD ALMOST DESCIBE IT AS A HEART ATTACK ALTHOUGH I HAVE HAD AN ECG SHORTLY AFTER AN ATTACK AND IT WAS NORMAL. THE CONSULTANT THOUGHT I HAD EOSOPHAGIAL SPASMS BUT WHEN I HAD A GASTROSCOPY EVERYTHING WAS OK. I THEN HAD A SCAN WHICH SHOWED I HAD GALLSTONES.SUBSEQUENTLY I HAVE HAD MY GALLBLADDER REMOVED.SINCE THE OPERATION THREE WEEKS AGO, I HAVE HAD SIMILAR PAINS AND HAVE STILL BEEN FEELING A BIT NAUSEAS. I HAD ANOTHER SCAN TO CHECK THEY HAD NOT LEFT A STONE,AND AS THAT WAS OK THE SURGEON PRESUMED IT WAS ABIT OF SLUDGE OR CRYSTALS. YESTERDAY I HAD THE WORST ATTACK YET WHICH LASTED FOR SIX HOURS.MY SURGEON IS NOW GOING TO DO FURTHER TESTS TO LOOK ELSEWHERE AS HE NOW FEELS THAT THE PROBLEM WAS NOT CONNECTED TO MY GALLSTONES. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS WHAT IT COULD BE. I AM 29 YEARS OLD.I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.

[Baby Blue]

Please send me your e-mail address I am dying to talk to you about your comment. I think this must be fate or something. I am experiencing soooo many problems since my gallbladder surgery. I am desperate for some help. I've been to a million doctors. My e-mail is ***@****. I am scheduled to see my GI Dr. on Wednesday

[ml88]

Do a search to check the archives on gall stones and pancreatitis .  You might find info that helps you

[TLC]

IT SOUNDS LIKE AN ANXIETY ATTACK TO ME. HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANXIETY BEFORE? IT CAN DO ALL KINDS OF CRAZY THINGS TO YOU I HAVE IT AND I GET CHEST PAIN DIZZY, FEEL LIKE IM JUST GOING TO DIE I HAVE EVEN HAD TO GO TO THE ER FOR IT BEFORE. THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE THINKING OF OR WHAT YOUR DOIND WHEN YOU START FEELING LIKE THIS AND WRITE IT DOWN THIS WIL HELP YOU DETERMINE IF IT IS STRESS