Chest pain, shortness of breath, terrible family history

Hi. For over a week I've been experiencing fairly constant chest pain and shortness of breath - both ease up at times but are always there to a degree. Just prior I had some sort of a virus with achin essence, sore throat etc and so initially thought it was to do with this. I've also had higher than normal blood pressure up to 150/80 (I always have very low blood pressure around 100/60), higher than normal pulse (resting in the 80s and 90s). My father had his first quadruple bypass at 41, another in his 50s and then died of heart disease at 69 and his father died in his 30s of a heart attack.

I've been sent to hospital twice and they've run ecg chest xray, ct scan of lungs and blood work. Only thing abnormal was elevated d-dimer hence the ct scan of Lungs to check for pulmonary embolism. I'm awaiting a stress test but next appointment is in two months. I'm only 35 but obviously concerned that this is underlying cardiovascular disease. I'm interested to know what people's early symptoms were and if it's possible to have all tests normal but then something show up on stress test?

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