Re: Diagnosed with Arrhythmia, what about the pain?

Posted By Amy on May 12, 1999 at 14:59:24
I am a 32 y/o female, I weigh 150lbs. I have been having chest pain in what feels like my heart, since June 1997.
My chest pain was tender to the touch to the right of my heart by the solar plexus,it would also hurt just below my armpit and it spread to my arm (a cold line that would run down the inside of my arm) in Nov/Dec of '97, the pain then climaxed with a severe pain in my left upper arm in Jan. 98, I could not lift it above shoulder level, then it disappeared. Gradually that spring the chest pain started to come back and spread into my arm again. Through the summer & fall of '98 I noticed a definite increase in pain
when I would get excited (bookstores are the worst, I'm an avid book-a-holic.)
I have a very strong family history of heart attacks (no male survivors over 55 -most die at 45, and no female survivors over 65)and my cholesterol level has always been over 350 - 400. I had chest x-rays (7/97), ekg's (7/97), heart sonograms (8/97), thallium stress tests (7-97), some special test to look for blood clots in the lungs (2/98), A gallbaldder test (3/98) and I wore a Holter moniter for 24 hours (1/98). The only test to show
anything was the Holter monitor (arrythmia,tachycardia).
At the beginning of April 99, I began to have very strong pains in my chest and down my arm,  My family doctor suggested Thoracic Outlet as a possibility, he ordered a Nerve Conduction test (4/99) which came back normal & a MRI on the right side of my brain, normal. I still have these strong pains, I am very weak on my left side, no headaches. Can arrhythmia cause all this? My cardiologist thinks I have stress just because I am a mother. What can I do?

[becky-burton]

Posted By becky burton on May 17, 1999 at 13:30:31
i am 26 and i have had chest pain into my left shoulder and arm for 2 years and have had heart tests and all and they tell me stress and anxiety attacks!!i get short of breath the whole works there's not a day that goes bye where i don't have a chest pain into my arm or straight through to my back!!stress,anxiety,tension.i am 5 monthes pregnant now definetly not planned and go to the cardiologists thurs for reaaurance










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