not just something I ate. I also began having extreme loss of appetite. When I would eat, I would feel nauseous, I could usually hold the food down, but sometimes it was just too much.
Okay, so I had been dealing with all of that, then about a week ago, I hadn't eaten but got extremely nauseous and began throwing up blood/acid type stuff from my stomach. It only happened about 3 times in one night and has not happened since. The next day I was pretty weak and slept most of the day. I woke up with my chest feeling extremely tight. I thought it was due to heartburn from throwing up. That night I woke up and looked in the mirror and my chest looked like it had a rash(red, splotchy) I turned to my boyfriend and asked what he thought, maybe I was allergic to something I ate. He looked at it and started freaking out, he noticed that the left side of my chest above my breast was swollen
, and left arm feel like they were falling asleep.
Needless to say, I went into a regular MD. They were mainly focused on my breathing and not really paying much attention to everything as a whole. They ran all sorts of tests and everything came back normal, x-rays blood etc.
She diagnosed me with Costochondriti and referred me to a GI doctor. She prescribed me, Methylprednisolone , A z-pack of antibiotics, naproxen sodium 550mg. and told me to take prilosec. She gave me a shot of something to make the inflammation go down in my chest, it was very strong and it did relieve some pain and helped me breath a little better. I went home, ate some food, and took a nap for about 3 hours, when I woke up, I was in extreme pain now in my lower ribs and above my breast, i was nauseous, dizzy, and hyperventilating, which made me numb all over and extremely scared.
My dad and brother rushed me to the ER. They ran all sorts of test, x-rays, to ct scans. Everything looked normal, they said I didn't have any blood clots in my lungs or anything. They sent a respiratory doctor in to give me a breathing treatment. It helped a lot while I was there. The doctor told me I seemed to be having bronchio-spasms(sp) and gave me a pro-air inhaler to take two puffs of every for hours until I was better.
I left the ER, and when I started to walk I began having problems breathing again. Nothing extreme, but still not normal. I stayed on my meds and it seemed to be helping some, but yest. I had to go back into work and I walk a lot, which made my breathing act up again, my chest is extremely swollen, and my neck, shoulders, and left arm feel so heavy and tight(like I had just lifted a ton of weights) I am in pain, and the meds don't seem to help. The inhaler doesn't seem to have much of an effect of me now either.
I am having anxiety about this all, which does not help. I am a 21 year old very healthy female, the only problems I have ever had are kidney stones two different times.
I feel like I am going crazy. I am in real pain, and all the doctors keep giving me the run around. I need some direction. What kind of specialist should I see? Has anyone had anything similar to this? What should I do for now to help with my pain so I can continue working. Money is tight, as it is for everyone and I really need to get back on my feet soon.
Good grief! Get thee to a cardiologist. They need to run a bunch of tests on your heart, child. They should do a heart-pumping scan, EKG, stress test, and dye injection with pictures of your circulatory system to check out your arteries. Sure, it's costly, but you can make monthly payments. I cannot believe they didn't send you to one straight away. That's not anything to goof around with, the heart.