Do painkillers work for cardiac or referred arm pain?

[jimmyC22]

Hello, I am back and still have no answers, but my "cardiac" symptoms continue to ebb, flow, change. etc. Though i no longer wish to type the hundreds of medical tests I have endured, I still have a question that I hope someone can answer. I still get left arm pain at rest, in the shoulder area. I have seen ortho, neuro, cardio, GI, rheumatory, Chiro, message, nutritionist, in regards. I have been told it is probably fibromyalgia, and i would be ok with that if the pain was all over my body. But i only get pain in the mid chest, left chest, left arm, left jaw, etc. I am being given all kinds of painkiller, and even 40 mg of oxycodone does not do the trick. I can still feel my arm throb, and that worries me, because i am under the impression that pain killers do not have any affect on cardiac of referred cardiac pain. Does anyone know if this is true?

[jimmyC22]

Actually Ed, i was initially prescribed NTG sub ling, and isosorbide, pending test results. Neither one alleviated the pain, and subsequent tests apparently ruled out any tyoe of angina, cardio spasm, or cardiac problem. With one exception. My cardio says I have MVP with some regurgitation, but he comes from the school that MVP has no physiological or anatomical way of causing pain.

[jimmyC22]

Thanks again. I do not have GTN because my cardio insists the pain is not cardiac in origin. I hope he is right, but fear he is wrong. And as for Pain management, i will be going there monday. I am sure they can help me with the pain, but would rather they find out what is causing it.

[ed34]

IF the pain is cardiac in origin, then it is not likely that pain killers will help. During my last heart attack, I was given a shot of morphine which gave me a nice ride into fantasy land, but did nothing for the pain. GTN is the best relief because you need more oxygen to the heart tissue. GTN is used to relief not just heart attack, but also angina in many people.

[jrbon]

As far as I understand, there are many pain killers, I am sure that some of them, working on nervous system, will reduce the cardiac pain, in fact morphine it is used some times to reduce the pain of a heart attack.

If no one is able to stop your pain, I suggest to visit a Pain Management Unit. They should be able to stop it, even if  the cause it is not known.

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