is it ms or heart or nerve

[louisemcall]

I have been dizzy off and on my left arm feels week and sometimes painful not bad just noticeable and tingling in my palm sometimes my neck is painful up the side and my right arm yesterday felt like the circulation was getting cut off like someone was squizing it and my arm and fingers will go numb when I sleep but if i change positions it will go away but the part about going numb is not new, the rest is. The woman in my Dads family Have all died before the age of 55 from some sort of heart trouble along with diabetes. What do my sympoms sound like? what I cant figure out it comes and goes like contractions all day long.      
Thanks Mary

[doni54]

Hi Louise, and welcome to the forum!!

Listen to Quix and Laura!!  Don't take any chances.

I wish you the best and please come back and let us know how you are.

Take care,
doni

[biowham]

What the doc and Laura said! With that history, someone should be monitoring you carefully already.

Bio

[Lulu54]

Mary,
Please do not hesitate to seek immediate medical attention if you think there is the most remote chance of this being heart related.  Time is muscle when it comes to heart problems.  I know first hand, having had a heart attack last January.  

You don't have to be old to have a heart attack.  Young women as well as women my age do have heart attacks,  and usually our symptoms don't look anything like we've seen portrayed on television or in the movies.

Please talk to your doctor and get a full workup done - with your family history you are at a greater risk of presenting with heart problems.  

Take no chances, please!
Laura

[Quixotic1]

Hi, Welcome to our forum!  From what you tell us, I don't think any of us can tell you what the cause of your pain and weakness is.  But, from your family history you should be under the watchful eye of your primary doctor with a consultation from a cardiologist.  If you haven't tlod a physician about the arm and neck pain, you should do this immediately.  Women can present very unusually with heart pain and it appears you have some real risk for this.

After your heart has been thoroughly checked out and you have been checked for diabetes, then if nothing has been found they can look for a neurological (nerve) reason for your pain.

I think you call your doctor immediately and if the squeezing pain continues today, but you can't see your doctor, then you should go to the ER.

Quix, MD