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chest pains
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chest pains
by Adina, Sep 19, 1999 12:00AM
I am a 23 year old female. For the past four to five months, I have been having sharp pains in the center of my chest right underneath my breast bone. The first time I experienced the pain, I also had pain up the left side of my neck. The pain in my chest radiated through to my back to the point that I could not tell which hurt worse my chest or my back. With every heart beat, I thought my heart was going to pop out of my chest. My heart did not seem to beat any faster though. I went to my doctor the next day, and he felt that it was an esphogus spasm. I have been back to the doctor 2 times since then for the same symptoms except I don't normally have the pain in my neck. The pains are occurring more frequently to the point where I am having them almost every other day. I have noticed the chest pains more in the evening, however, I have experienced them at all times of the day. My doctor has tried putting me on one Pepcid 20mg a day, which had no effect. I can not find a correlation between anything that I eat and the pains. For example, I can have the pains 4 hours after I have eaten lunch, but before I've eaten dinner, and I may have had a salad or a ham sandwich for lunch. Now my doctor is wanting me to take Nitroglicern to see what effect that might have on the pains, but I am a little hesitant of taking it. He can't seem to come up with a cause or anything to prevent these pains from occurring. I have had an EKG after the first time the pain occurred and that came back normal. Since then I have had blood work done and a chest X-Ray. Everything has come back normal, except that I have high cholesteral. I consider my work environment kind of stressful, but I don't know if that really has anything to do with this since I have these pains on the weekends when I'm not at work or stressed-out. I would really appreciate any help you can give me.
Doctor's Answer
by CCF CARDIO MD JMF, Sep 20, 1999 12:00AM
Dear Adina,
this may just bemusculoskeletal or GI pain. Try the nitroglycerine and see if it helps. If it does this may be esophageal spasm or coronary disease. but i doubt this is cardiac in any way.
this may just bemusculoskeletal or GI pain. Try the nitroglycerine and see if it helps. If it does this may be esophageal spasm or coronary disease. but i doubt this is cardiac in any way.
Member Comments (1)
by Terroo, Jul 31, 2008 10:19PM
A related discussion, pain in the left side was started.
