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should i trust my cardiologest or my body?
Dear all..
I would like to express my thankful and appreciate for your time and opinion.
First think first.. I would like to introduce myself and some of my history then I will describe my health issue time line..
My name is AHMED I am from Iraq I lived in Baghdad born in 1981 march 8th.
I am skinny person all my live, I weight 50 kgm high is 160cm.
All my life I didn’t experience any health issue till March 4th 2012 which I will describe later.
I start to smoke when I was 16 years old, after I reach 20 I start to be a heavy smoker. Then I start to drink alcohols not too much just few bottles of beer every week.
I work in computer business sins 1998 and still. I never do sport or work up.. I am lazy and I know it.
In 2007 I mirage back then I was heavy smoker and drinker..
I use to drink scotch and beer every day and smoke 1 and half pack of menthol cigarette, after few month of mirage I get infected with !!!! Without one month I cured from it..
I describe myself as a very stressed person, I got angry for sileast thing very anxious.
When I play video games as example I get very angry and cant stand any thing in my face while playing.
In 2010 I face my first health issue.. I gut neck pain and stiffness. One day I was driving home from work while I drive I start to have numbness and tingling in my face and head that speared to my arms gradually, I barely reach my uncle home how is a dentist he test my Blood Pressure and it was fine I almost faint but he test my blood suger and it was fine to. Then he take me to the nearest doctor who immediately did an ECG for me and he said every think is fine and its probably a problem in my neck or just a panic attack.
Second day I rushed to one of the finest doctor who is spiciest in joint and bones..
He order an X-Ray for the neck and he said its nothing serious and give some medication and within 2 weeks every thing come back normal and I was just perfectly fine.
Until march 4th 2012 that date changes my life..
I will describe my health issue start from that date
1. March 4th 2012: I start to have a strange needle pain in the upper center of my abdomen ( epigastric area )which continue every day I didn’t give it big attention. Until it starts to get more sever which some time I can't even eat.
2. April 25th I start to have nausea along with the pain it was a painful time I can't stand it.
3. April 30th I go for a GI specialist who orders an upper endoscopy for my stomach. I did the test in the same day and the result come perfectly normal. The doctor said it's just gastric spasms and gave me medication.
4. June 1st I would say this is the date where I become an iddiot, I start to Google my symptoms for no reason and for sure the first Google suggestion was one of the stupid medical website which said its perfectly mimic stomach cancer.
and they say its happen sometime for doctor to miss the cancer in the endoscopy, I freighted and continue to googling every symptom I gut and start to watch my stool because they said it's going to be black because of upper gastric bleeding and the changing of my bowel habit scares me to.
5. I give the doctor second visits how insure to me that what is happening with me is called IBS. This is getting wars because it's related to my mental.
He describes some other medication: because the nausea was very sever.
6. I start to be worried about colon cancer also, because in that date I watch my stool; and it was pencil thin, for sure I Google it and its now colon cancer symptom. I did a stool test analyze and come back normal. I was freacked because I think I had a bleeding in my colon. I did go to my doctor again and he was frustrated and he said I am circling in closed circle. This time he prescribes anxiety meds for me:
while this happening to me I lost 3Kgm which was another thing to freak about it.
7. Then I start to have heartburn which freak me out and get back to my Doc and he gave me omeprazole and ask me to never visit him again!!!!
8. Then in August I start to have lightheadedness every minutes every day, I go visit a neurologic ho did every test (EEG, Brain MRI, neck x-ray, blood test... etc) all normal, again he said its anxiety.
9. During this period I did many blood tests (CBC, Thyroid, Sexual Hermon, Vitamins', adrenalin… you name it) all test I did it came back normal.
10. I Go visit a new GI who is very good he order new upper endoscopy because my heartburn was very severe, I did it and the result is ( small hiatal hernia 2 cm, lax cardia, antrum ulcers) he said the ulcers developed because I was taking antinflimation Meds for my neck.
11. I start to treat it but the lightheadedness still there my heartburn is better. Bet I start to have chest pain that was uncomfortable. One day while I was driving I gut chest pain and sweating, tachycardia, anxious, lightheaded, nausea, the pain was crashing. I rushed to ER they did ecg and comeback fine they give aspirin nitroglycerin they sent me home next day I visit a cardiologist how did echo and stress test for me. All came back normal. Also he said anxiety " I start to Hate this word".
12. The chest pain stick with me all the time I couldn’t find why, I visit another cardiologist who is very good one. He said don’t think about your heart you are healthy. But within this period I visit to many doctors and emergency rooms that I can't remember. All doctors and test are normal, until now I have more than 100 ecg. All echo's I did show mild Mitral Valve Prolapse. And they say that’s why I have high pulse rate.
13. I go visit another cardiologist who did another echo and stress test and also normal, I did visit authors' cardiologists who all said my heart is normal. Finally I visit a new cardiologist who orders coronary CT angiography just to peace my mind. I did go to Erbil Cardiac Center one of the best in Iraq. They did it with Phillips multislice coronary ct angiography 256 slice. The result came back after 10 days and it was totally normal and my calcium score is 0.
14. The chest pain wouldn’t go away, and the doctors still said nothing wrong, the chest pain now is like tightness in chest whenever I stand and its worse when walking or climbing stairs my heart rate very elevated while rest like 90 or more and go up to 110 when just standing, whenever I stand the tightness and tachycardia is there I also forget to mansion that I did to many cardiac enzyme test and all came back normal..
15. Before two weeks I did go to my cardiologist and asked him to retest me with stress and echo I did it and he said its normal but I have chest tightness during the exercise but the ecg and pulse and blood pressure response was very normal. I read that if there is symptoms during stress test and ecg is normal its considered positive test or false negative. I freacked out and did came back to him to do catherization but he surprised me with his answer, he said" Ahmed I bage you not to undergo cath you don’t need it". I don’t know what to do , I can't even play with my kids without the tightness in my chest, I get tired very fast from any activity. Please if anybody can advice what is wrong with me???
I would like to express my thankful and appreciate for your time and opinion.
First think first.. I would like to introduce myself and some of my history then I will describe my health issue time line..
My name is AHMED I am from Iraq I lived in Baghdad born in 1981 march 8th.
I am skinny person all my live, I weight 50 kgm high is 160cm.
All my life I didn’t experience any health issue till March 4th 2012 which I will describe later.
I start to smoke when I was 16 years old, after I reach 20 I start to be a heavy smoker. Then I start to drink alcohols not too much just few bottles of beer every week.
I work in computer business sins 1998 and still. I never do sport or work up.. I am lazy and I know it.
In 2007 I mirage back then I was heavy smoker and drinker..
I use to drink scotch and beer every day and smoke 1 and half pack of menthol cigarette, after few month of mirage I get infected with !!!! Without one month I cured from it..
I describe myself as a very stressed person, I got angry for sileast thing very anxious.
When I play video games as example I get very angry and cant stand any thing in my face while playing.
In 2010 I face my first health issue.. I gut neck pain and stiffness. One day I was driving home from work while I drive I start to have numbness and tingling in my face and head that speared to my arms gradually, I barely reach my uncle home how is a dentist he test my Blood Pressure and it was fine I almost faint but he test my blood suger and it was fine to. Then he take me to the nearest doctor who immediately did an ECG for me and he said every think is fine and its probably a problem in my neck or just a panic attack.
Second day I rushed to one of the finest doctor who is spiciest in joint and bones..
He order an X-Ray for the neck and he said its nothing serious and give some medication and within 2 weeks every thing come back normal and I was just perfectly fine.
Until march 4th 2012 that date changes my life..
I will describe my health issue start from that date
1. March 4th 2012: I start to have a strange needle pain in the upper center of my abdomen ( epigastric area )which continue every day I didn’t give it big attention. Until it starts to get more sever which some time I can't even eat.
2. April 25th I start to have nausea along with the pain it was a painful time I can't stand it.
3. April 30th I go for a GI specialist who orders an upper endoscopy for my stomach. I did the test in the same day and the result come perfectly normal. The doctor said it's just gastric spasms and gave me medication.
4. June 1st I would say this is the date where I become an iddiot, I start to Google my symptoms for no reason and for sure the first Google suggestion was one of the stupid medical website which said its perfectly mimic stomach cancer.
and they say its happen sometime for doctor to miss the cancer in the endoscopy, I freighted and continue to googling every symptom I gut and start to watch my stool because they said it's going to be black because of upper gastric bleeding and the changing of my bowel habit scares me to.
5. I give the doctor second visits how insure to me that what is happening with me is called IBS. This is getting wars because it's related to my mental.
He describes some other medication: because the nausea was very sever.
6. I start to be worried about colon cancer also, because in that date I watch my stool; and it was pencil thin, for sure I Google it and its now colon cancer symptom. I did a stool test analyze and come back normal. I was freacked because I think I had a bleeding in my colon. I did go to my doctor again and he was frustrated and he said I am circling in closed circle. This time he prescribes anxiety meds for me:
while this happening to me I lost 3Kgm which was another thing to freak about it.
7. Then I start to have heartburn which freak me out and get back to my Doc and he gave me omeprazole and ask me to never visit him again!!!!
8. Then in August I start to have lightheadedness every minutes every day, I go visit a neurologic ho did every test (EEG, Brain MRI, neck x-ray, blood test... etc) all normal, again he said its anxiety.
9. During this period I did many blood tests (CBC, Thyroid, Sexual Hermon, Vitamins', adrenalin… you name it) all test I did it came back normal.
10. I Go visit a new GI who is very good he order new upper endoscopy because my heartburn was very severe, I did it and the result is ( small hiatal hernia 2 cm, lax cardia, antrum ulcers) he said the ulcers developed because I was taking antinflimation Meds for my neck.
11. I start to treat it but the lightheadedness still there my heartburn is better. Bet I start to have chest pain that was uncomfortable. One day while I was driving I gut chest pain and sweating, tachycardia, anxious, lightheaded, nausea, the pain was crashing. I rushed to ER they did ecg and comeback fine they give aspirin nitroglycerin they sent me home next day I visit a cardiologist how did echo and stress test for me. All came back normal. Also he said anxiety " I start to Hate this word".
12. The chest pain stick with me all the time I couldn’t find why, I visit another cardiologist who is very good one. He said don’t think about your heart you are healthy. But within this period I visit to many doctors and emergency rooms that I can't remember. All doctors and test are normal, until now I have more than 100 ecg. All echo's I did show mild Mitral Valve Prolapse. And they say that’s why I have high pulse rate.
13. I go visit another cardiologist who did another echo and stress test and also normal, I did visit authors' cardiologists who all said my heart is normal. Finally I visit a new cardiologist who orders coronary CT angiography just to peace my mind. I did go to Erbil Cardiac Center one of the best in Iraq. They did it with Phillips multislice coronary ct angiography 256 slice. The result came back after 10 days and it was totally normal and my calcium score is 0.
14. The chest pain wouldn’t go away, and the doctors still said nothing wrong, the chest pain now is like tightness in chest whenever I stand and its worse when walking or climbing stairs my heart rate very elevated while rest like 90 or more and go up to 110 when just standing, whenever I stand the tightness and tachycardia is there I also forget to mansion that I did to many cardiac enzyme test and all came back normal..
15. Before two weeks I did go to my cardiologist and asked him to retest me with stress and echo I did it and he said its normal but I have chest tightness during the exercise but the ecg and pulse and blood pressure response was very normal. I read that if there is symptoms during stress test and ecg is normal its considered positive test or false negative. I freacked out and did came back to him to do catherization but he surprised me with his answer, he said" Ahmed I bage you not to undergo cath you don’t need it". I don’t know what to do , I can't even play with my kids without the tightness in my chest, I get tired very fast from any activity. Please if anybody can advice what is wrong with me???
i just wont to thank you for response... did you know if there is any blood test for these bactria ?
Perhaps your diet is the issue. Recent research is showing that many problems such as yours can be produced by having an imbalance of bacteria types in the gut, the little friends who aid with digestion. This can cause all sorts of issues because the discoveries have also revealed they are able to directly influence the Vagus nerve. This nerve runs from the brain right down to the gut and connects to every organ on the way, including the heart. Each bacteria type requires different foods to enable them to multiply. In the research they discovered that there is a 'norm' for bacteria types and levels, but many people are away from that norm, and the majority of those have medical issues.
i ded use it cuople of times.. its breack me and send my blood pressure too low and that give me extrem tachycardia .. but the it dosnt have that influance on the pain ,, that what i feel.
It could be coronary artery spasm or something. One way to test if it's your arteries is to ask the Doctor to give you a spray nitro. When you feel discomfort, spray it under your tongue and your arteries will be forced open. It should also reduce any spasm. This could give some answers in this mystery. A single spray from nitro will last about 20 minutes.
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