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Is it really?
Alright so let me get right into this... i have been diagnosed, well it was more of a guess "shot in the dark" if you will by my doctor with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, he tells me this is the cause of my problems. However i'm not truly convinced...
I am 19yr's old, around 5'6, weigh about 173lb's not overweight, more of an athletic build, last physical a year or so ago i was around 15% body fat... I do exercise when i get a chance, and have recently quit smoking cigarettes, i had been smoking for the past 5 years, jusdt before i quit i was maybe toward a pack a day...
So for the past 11 months i've been getting chest pains... they are not always consistant, sometimes stabbing, sometimes throbbing, sometimes dull. Accomanied by pressure, and tightness, sometimes also abdominal. While the stabbing pain seems to be the most re-occuring out of them all. The thing that kind of throws me and my doctor for a loop, is that nothing is very consistant other then the stabbing pain is very common. Sometimes it will be accompanied by heart burn, majority of the time it won't. Sometimes it will feel as if i'm bloated, majority of the time it won't. either way the pain can get so severe that i collapse in pain, unable to move. It's slowly destroying every facit of my life. I still go out, and still try to go on as normal.
It's caused me to lose my job, costing me money on tests that simply just keep coming up that im completerly fine. So far i've had a chest x-ray, blood test, ct scan, and somewhere around 6 ekg's 3-4 of them being the more indepth ones, with more wires or something like that was what i was told...
While i was getting excessivly anxious before the pains started, i dont seem to get anxious anymore... Attempting to help that along also by quiting smoking. I try to run for a few hours at least once a week, since quiting i've been able to triple if not quadruple the amount of peak workout. yet i'm still getting pains.
I was also put on lexapro, which at first seemed to help surpress the pain slightly, mostly just making it less severe or intense. But that slowly began to screw with my head a bit. Best way i can describe it is being light headed, and experiencing periods where i lose sense of reality. It's like i feel a pop almost in my head, and lose all train of thought, and sense of really anything... i can;t say thats nessesarily caused by the lexapro, and not really sure it is. but either way it's happening and i need to fix it so i can get back to working without worrying about calling off constantly because of pain... Please let me know if you could give me some insight? if you need anymore information that i might have left out feel free to ask me...
I am 19yr's old, around 5'6, weigh about 173lb's not overweight, more of an athletic build, last physical a year or so ago i was around 15% body fat... I do exercise when i get a chance, and have recently quit smoking cigarettes, i had been smoking for the past 5 years, jusdt before i quit i was maybe toward a pack a day...
So for the past 11 months i've been getting chest pains... they are not always consistant, sometimes stabbing, sometimes throbbing, sometimes dull. Accomanied by pressure, and tightness, sometimes also abdominal. While the stabbing pain seems to be the most re-occuring out of them all. The thing that kind of throws me and my doctor for a loop, is that nothing is very consistant other then the stabbing pain is very common. Sometimes it will be accompanied by heart burn, majority of the time it won't. Sometimes it will feel as if i'm bloated, majority of the time it won't. either way the pain can get so severe that i collapse in pain, unable to move. It's slowly destroying every facit of my life. I still go out, and still try to go on as normal.
It's caused me to lose my job, costing me money on tests that simply just keep coming up that im completerly fine. So far i've had a chest x-ray, blood test, ct scan, and somewhere around 6 ekg's 3-4 of them being the more indepth ones, with more wires or something like that was what i was told...
While i was getting excessivly anxious before the pains started, i dont seem to get anxious anymore... Attempting to help that along also by quiting smoking. I try to run for a few hours at least once a week, since quiting i've been able to triple if not quadruple the amount of peak workout. yet i'm still getting pains.
I was also put on lexapro, which at first seemed to help surpress the pain slightly, mostly just making it less severe or intense. But that slowly began to screw with my head a bit. Best way i can describe it is being light headed, and experiencing periods where i lose sense of reality. It's like i feel a pop almost in my head, and lose all train of thought, and sense of really anything... i can;t say thats nessesarily caused by the lexapro, and not really sure it is. but either way it's happening and i need to fix it so i can get back to working without worrying about calling off constantly because of pain... Please let me know if you could give me some insight? if you need anymore information that i might have left out feel free to ask me...
Well, as i said i've seen my docotor on multiple occasions... but for instance today, I went for a jog, i didnt eat right before, i also wasn't hungry... i ran at least a quarter to a half a mile before i had to drop to a walk... It took me a little for me to get my heart rate down, but i eventually did and continued another mile or so walking. My chest didn't feel right.. is the best way i could put it, i could feel that the pain was coming.
Sure enough i was walking down the road and a stab in my chest stopped me dead in my tracks and almost dropped me to the ground... It's like someone shot you with an arrow...
Sure enough i was walking down the road and a stab in my chest stopped me dead in my tracks and almost dropped me to the ground... It's like someone shot you with an arrow...
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Hi
Welcome to the forum!
Without examining you it is really difficult to tell. However there are two things you must look at. Chances are that you have esophageal reflux (GERD), where the food in your stomach is thrown up into your food pipe or esophagus. This also causes burning sensation or discomfort in the chest area. Another possibility is hiatal hernia, where a portion of stomach herniates into the chest cavity through the diaphragm. This along with chest discomfort cause shortness of breath too.
Omeprazole is a good drug to combat this. Along with it you can try over the counter antacids. However I would recommend you see a doctor and take medication under a doctor’s supervision. Avoid heavy meals. Avoid too much of caffeine, tea, fried food and drinks both alcoholic and non alcoholic fuzzy ones. Avoid heavy exercises within 4 hours of a heavy meal. Raise the head end of the bed by pillows to 30 degrees. Go to bet at least 2 hours after food. Maybe these tips will help you. You should see a gastroenterologist (a specialist who looks after the diseases of our digestive system) or a physician for this if these tips reduce your symptoms.
Another possibility is IBS or irritable bowel syndrome.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!
Welcome to the forum!
Without examining you it is really difficult to tell. However there are two things you must look at. Chances are that you have esophageal reflux (GERD), where the food in your stomach is thrown up into your food pipe or esophagus. This also causes burning sensation or discomfort in the chest area. Another possibility is hiatal hernia, where a portion of stomach herniates into the chest cavity through the diaphragm. This along with chest discomfort cause shortness of breath too.
Omeprazole is a good drug to combat this. Along with it you can try over the counter antacids. However I would recommend you see a doctor and take medication under a doctor’s supervision. Avoid heavy meals. Avoid too much of caffeine, tea, fried food and drinks both alcoholic and non alcoholic fuzzy ones. Avoid heavy exercises within 4 hours of a heavy meal. Raise the head end of the bed by pillows to 30 degrees. Go to bet at least 2 hours after food. Maybe these tips will help you. You should see a gastroenterologist (a specialist who looks after the diseases of our digestive system) or a physician for this if these tips reduce your symptoms.
Another possibility is IBS or irritable bowel syndrome.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!
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