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pls help heart breathing rib problem

hi i am 24 years of age and i have had heart surgury when i was 13 and it was a simple procedure 4 hours and i havent had any problems since then about 1 month ago i have been fealing like my heart was going to stop or somthing this fealing of stress/somthing passing through my heart when i take a deep breath now i feal a pain under my left rib close to my sternem and i still feal like somnthing is passing slowly through my heart i went to the emergency room as well as some of u and they told me it was a panic attack i am like no way i wasnt panicing until i couldn't breath my left lung couldn't exspand it felt like and when i laugh hard my heart gets a sharp pain for a sec till i stop laughing but i notice it is when i laugh with not alot of air in lungs, it is suddin stop laugh cuz of the pain and i was worried not good somtimes it feals like my body is uneven and my right leg feals out of socket a little or something so it does seem longer and i am going to go to the cyropracter next and i am hoping that he could fick my leg because i thought i might be having a hernia, at first my right ball hurt when i took a right step i thinnk my leg is not lined up right or something, so i was going to get that checked . they say i am getting healthy amount of oxygen to my body but yet i still find it hard to breath i thing my leg might be making my body crooked and efacting me that way i hope but i also have ribs that look broken kinda looks like my ribs are pushing on my insides maybe my ribs are to far in cuz when i was younger i had been fealing sharp pain in my sternem wrestling with my brother he told me i was a ***** and to suck it up so i did now they look broken and stickin out on the left side only maybe they all are playing a part i feal like i am getting old or dying any suggestions pls... i am tierd or this pain in my heart and rib cage my doc said panic attack?! i dont believe so i was having trouble breathing before i went to the er worried as hell. i dont trust my docters here a women died she had a blood clot and the same doc told her she was having panic attacks and was depresed. she was clearly over weight to and they mistakin a hernia for a hip out of place pls help?
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now when i breathin my lower left rib ribits to me like there is a frog in there or somthing not good and it burns a little ? worried ya a little wish i loved in a bigger place. any ideas. pls.. pls... pls..... oh and i might have a hurnia i am just fallin apart no good....
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thank you so much for replying good to know someone out there is reading this and cares. changing docs isnt that easy i live on a very small island only one hospital its very expensive to leave this island. i dont trust the docs here ive heard too many bad stories. the surgery i got was cardiac ablation i think i had tachycardia. i had to go to seattle when i got it. i dont take any meds.
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I empathize with you concerning your surgery and symptoms. What was the surgery for. What meds are you taking? You need a Doc who  will listen closely to your concerns and if you need to change docs, do so
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