Thank you for all of your information, friend.
You know, I'm to the point of no return anymore. I'm learning to adjust to all these nuttso symptoms. Use the meds I have (and yes I take Dilantin many years). And just pray that God will help them heal. There's far too many things goin' on for me or any doctor to locate the intial problem off. There's too much frustration and stress tryin' to figure it out. When doctors can't help; I say: "God knows our bodies as he made them, and he can heal them." With hopes he will. How about that?? I'm actually done. The pain and dizziness and lightheadedness and choking are difficult to withstand when I'm at work, but the meds help the pain and it's much easier to just let go of the doctor's and frustration of feeling like they just think I'm a fool because tests are perfect. If it was or is or becomes a more serious matter; then Kaiser can deal with it at that time. Thank you for caring. Thank you for responding. You have a lot of knowledge, but I'm too tired to go through anymore with Kaiser. You have a very Merry Christmas and God Bless you and your family. Sincerely, Susan
If you've had Grand Mal seizures, I assume you are taking medications to control that, and if not, you should be on antiseizure drugs. Your chest pain and heart doing loop-dee-loops may be a sign of cardiovascular problems, which might be causing your dizziness and your extremities feeling cold sometimes, plus I think of the spot on your adrenal gland or possibly another gland like the thyroid, and wonder if one of them are firing off irregularly, thus goofing up your heart pumping activity. I think your regular doc could run some thyroid and adrenal gland panels, or an endocrinologist can, to see how those things are doing; and if those are okay, then perhaps a heart doc might look into the situation.
I might add that various medications can cause your above symptoms, too, so have your doc review the side effects of anything you're taking, particularly as relates to your other symptom of choking. Just switching to another category of drugs might be all you need.
Now, the pain, I have that from a tore-up spine from a car wreck, so I think you can ascribe your various pains to that. Physical therapy does indeed help, various drugs help (I take opiates and the gaba drugs), and could be the cortisone shots you mentioned might numb up your spine somewhat. I also have a relative who has a real bad cervical spine problem, and he has vertigo, so that's another possible reason for your dizziness, aside from the heart stuff I mentioned before. Hope all this helps a little.