Could this be Sleep Apnea?? HELP

Im a 24 yr old male, 205lbs, 6ft, cholesterol 245. I'm a very inactive person for about 4 years now, and I noticed that I can minor activities and be winded and have a fast heart rate that I can feel without putting my hand on my chest, and I also can feel it in my throat and everywhere else where you can feel your pulse. Just by walking up a flight of stairs I get super winded. I've been having recurrent localized left side chest pain for about 2 yrs now. I also have lost of skipped beat feelings. PVC's and PAC's. I've had holter, event monitor, ekgs, blood work, and echo's, all normal besides the pvc's,pac's and svt. My chest pain is on the left side of my chest about an inch and half, to 2 inches with a measuring tape from the center of my left nipple measured straight across towards the middle of my chest. At around 1 1/2 to 2 inches is where the pain always is, and also I will get some pain in my left arm, shoulder and hand. It's like a gripping,pinching, squeezing type of pain. I sometimes get tingly and lightheaded with the skipped beats. I also sometimes will wake up in the middle of the night with the pain, and like forceful heartbeats, and shortness of breath, and it will feel like I ran 10 miles and I will check my pulse and it will seem really slow. I've seen many cardiologist and they seem to not think its heart.   1. What could cause that type of pain, and the nature of it, does it sound cardiac? 2. What could cause the feelings I have when it wakes me during the night? 3.What about the skipped beats, what could cause that, heart problems? 4.I'm scared of v-fibb for some odd reason, whats the chances of that? This all seems to get extremely worse when I'm away from medical care and I get anxious, but it happens everyday even when Im around medical care. Its an EVERYDAY thing, some days worse than others. When I drink I tend to not feel it, but the next days worse, and thats usually the nights it'll wake me up in the middle of the night, after I lay down and go to bed after drinking alot. I can't reproduce the pain by pressing on the area either. Thanks so much!  I also notice that EVERYNIGHT I have really vivid dreams and nightmares, and I can remember them to a T, like I'm never really sleeping, I'm always in that dream/nightmare stage, and they will wake me up and my heartbeat will feel weird and I have shortness of breath, and the mild left side chest pain.  Could sleep apnea cause that?/??

[Jerry_NJ]

Sounds like a small loss of weight, 20 pounds say, and cholesterol, 50 points, and some regular exercise will do a world of good. The easy part is the cholesterol, the medications are very effective and the generic statins are inexpensive too.  Better if diet and exercise can be used to lower the cholesterol, but I'd go with the statin to get faster results.

Remember, at the young age of 24 your body  will work with you to get stronger and better.  It will be another 40 years before your body starts to work against you.