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Hi, I am 31 years old and overweight but losing. I have been diagonised with GERD, and an hiatal hernia. The only thing is that I have chest pain with it. I have a couple of ekgs abnormal but my stress test and echo was okay. I was also told that I have costochondritis. Does the above conditions cause your heart rate to go up and down, went to er and heart rate was 114, 82, 52, 77, 86,111ect? I am just wondering if your stomach can cause your heart rate to flucuate like this thanks so much
I also have to go to the bathroom when I get chest pain, at times it "(the pain)is sharp sometimes dull, sometimes squeezing. Into shoulder and back and left arm thanks again.
I also have to go to the bathroom when I get chest pain, at times it "(the pain)is sharp sometimes dull, sometimes squeezing. Into shoulder and back and left arm thanks again.
Keith -
you said it started as a pressure under your left lower ribs. I think my symptoms are similar. I had been diagnosed with GERD but the pain was always in the center of my ribs, just where they end. The GERD has been behaving for the past year and I haven't had any real big flare ups. I treated myself with herbs and a change of diet, because I didn't think the idea of bloscking by stomach acid production was good.
Anyway - around the beginning of December of this past year, I started having dull ache, pressure pain and soimetimes twinge like a gas pain in my abdomen below my lower left rib in between the rib and navel area. The skin was also very sensitive to the touch. The pain would go into my side making my side very tender and my mid back muscles would spasm, too. Moving, sitting up from a reclining position, laughing, talking, bearing down - all these things hurt in that area. I also have pain in my left groin (feels like a groin pull).
In the past week, I have begun having tightness weakness in my left arm all the way down to my hand. My grip also feels weak. I'm now wondering if I don't have a pinched nerve in my back that could be causing all of this (as I do also have scoliosis). I am having xrays for that today.
I have had numerous other tests all of which so far have come back "normal" (CT scan, IVP, Ultrasound, blood work...). 3 doctors I have seen (my primary care internist, a gynocologist, and a gastroenterologist) all gave different diagnoses, so no one agrees. It is making me very anxious, scared and crazy (not to mention depressed), and I too have been driving my partner nuts about it. The gastroenterologist asked me a few questions , pressed on my abdomen a bit, told me it was muscular and sent me home to take advil. The gyno told me he thought it was visceral -- had something to do with my organs (not gyocological), my primary care originally thought I had a kidney stone. Go figure!
You say you've hadthis pain for 4 years! Has it been persistent - there all the time to greater or lesser degrees? What exactly does the pain currently feel like in your abdomen, or has that gone away? If you get any answers from the next test and they give you a definitive diagnosis, could you please post back here and let us know. Any clues would possibly be greatly helpful to a whole bunch of us.
Thanks for any answers / advice and keep hanging in there!
Carol D.
you said it started as a pressure under your left lower ribs. I think my symptoms are similar. I had been diagnosed with GERD but the pain was always in the center of my ribs, just where they end. The GERD has been behaving for the past year and I haven't had any real big flare ups. I treated myself with herbs and a change of diet, because I didn't think the idea of bloscking by stomach acid production was good.
Anyway - around the beginning of December of this past year, I started having dull ache, pressure pain and soimetimes twinge like a gas pain in my abdomen below my lower left rib in between the rib and navel area. The skin was also very sensitive to the touch. The pain would go into my side making my side very tender and my mid back muscles would spasm, too. Moving, sitting up from a reclining position, laughing, talking, bearing down - all these things hurt in that area. I also have pain in my left groin (feels like a groin pull).
In the past week, I have begun having tightness weakness in my left arm all the way down to my hand. My grip also feels weak. I'm now wondering if I don't have a pinched nerve in my back that could be causing all of this (as I do also have scoliosis). I am having xrays for that today.
I have had numerous other tests all of which so far have come back "normal" (CT scan, IVP, Ultrasound, blood work...). 3 doctors I have seen (my primary care internist, a gynocologist, and a gastroenterologist) all gave different diagnoses, so no one agrees. It is making me very anxious, scared and crazy (not to mention depressed), and I too have been driving my partner nuts about it. The gastroenterologist asked me a few questions , pressed on my abdomen a bit, told me it was muscular and sent me home to take advil. The gyno told me he thought it was visceral -- had something to do with my organs (not gyocological), my primary care originally thought I had a kidney stone. Go figure!
You say you've hadthis pain for 4 years! Has it been persistent - there all the time to greater or lesser degrees? What exactly does the pain currently feel like in your abdomen, or has that gone away? If you get any answers from the next test and they give you a definitive diagnosis, could you please post back here and let us know. Any clues would possibly be greatly helpful to a whole bunch of us.
Thanks for any answers / advice and keep hanging in there!
Carol D.
Hi Keith!
I know EXACTLY how you feel. My husband says that I am driving him crazy. I have been to the ER twice. The first time my heart rate was going up and down the second time I was told that I have costochondritis. Does your heart rate go up and down? and sometimes my heart races, I have been told that GERD can cause it. I had three abnormal ekgs but passed the stress test and echo. So I was told that the ekgs were wrong. Good luck on your test and let me know how things are? P.S. Does your chest hurt like mine, into shoulder, back, left arm ect.?Thanks and Pulling for you!
I know EXACTLY how you feel. My husband says that I am driving him crazy. I have been to the ER twice. The first time my heart rate was going up and down the second time I was told that I have costochondritis. Does your heart rate go up and down? and sometimes my heart races, I have been told that GERD can cause it. I had three abnormal ekgs but passed the stress test and echo. So I was told that the ekgs were wrong. Good luck on your test and let me know how things are? P.S. Does your chest hurt like mine, into shoulder, back, left arm ect.?Thanks and Pulling for you!
Christine HI,
Well, I passed another stress test. I told the Dr that if I ever do have a heart attack that I would probably sit there and die. He said that everyone has there own "set" of pains. If those include your left should and while exercising, you right should hurts, stop, and get help. I am for the sake of knowing, and good insurance, in July I am going to have my heart catheterized. This will be a finale test. My heart does not race at all. I do have pains in my chest, left shoulder, and left arm. It hurts through the body and comes out my back and my side. This is why the test. It seems to have all started from a pressure under my left lower ribs. It has been 4 years ago and is still driving my crazy. I feel that I am driving my wife crazy but she still says she here to support. She still goes to the Dr appointments with me and asks questions.
Well, I passed another stress test. I told the Dr that if I ever do have a heart attack that I would probably sit there and die. He said that everyone has there own "set" of pains. If those include your left should and while exercising, you right should hurts, stop, and get help. I am for the sake of knowing, and good insurance, in July I am going to have my heart catheterized. This will be a finale test. My heart does not race at all. I do have pains in my chest, left shoulder, and left arm. It hurts through the body and comes out my back and my side. This is why the test. It seems to have all started from a pressure under my left lower ribs. It has been 4 years ago and is still driving my crazy. I feel that I am driving my wife crazy but she still says she here to support. She still goes to the Dr appointments with me and asks questions.
Welcome to the world of GERD. Have you had an endoscopy done yet? This is how they found my Barrette's and hiatal hernia. I have the chest pain and been the ER three times thinking I was having a heart attack. I have passed EKG's and stress test. I go this after noon for the results of my last nuclear stress test. I have high blood pressure, my ears ring. I have been like this for four years and would love to have it all stop. Your mind is your worst enemy. This is one scary sickness. I have never been sick a day in my life and know I am 49 and worry about seeing 50. My wife is getting tired of hearing about it. That
Dear Christine,
If you have a chance to review our archives, you will find many postings from patients with esophageal reflux who have irregularities of heart rate. At present, we do not have an explanation for this association. The heart rate changes that you describe are not very large and could reflect increases due to exertion, activity, change in position or anxiety. Sometimes having pain can increase the heart rate.
If you have a chance to review our archives, you will find many postings from patients with esophageal reflux who have irregularities of heart rate. At present, we do not have an explanation for this association. The heart rate changes that you describe are not very large and could reflect increases due to exertion, activity, change in position or anxiety. Sometimes having pain can increase the heart rate.
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