Chest pains

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Hi, I'm 19 year old and in 2014 had a catheter ablation for a condition called supraventricular tachycardia. The problem was sorted. During my recovery process a few months later I start getting chest pains, constant, everyday! I'm taking a beta blocker for my heart rhythm as I get ectopic beats and another tablet for the pains. I've seen my cardiologist and she simply said it was muscular skeletal, and that it should simmer down on its own. It's been three years now and still nothing's changed, in fact it's getting worse and I've started getting bouts of dizziness, like my heads moving apart from my body (I don't know if that makes any sense) I get around 15 'episodes' of pain each day and that's with my tablets. Obviously this interrupts my daily life (my cardiologist told me to

Ignore it and plow on through and to exercise to help). I have no idea what this could be or even if I'm seeing the right specialist. If anyone has any ideas that would be appreciated.

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    Have you had a halter monitor to see what is going on, remember your visit to the cardio's office is only a few minutes of the day, not 24 hour monitor. 

    Husband had failing Right branch Bundle, already had lost left branch bundle nerves, maybe many years previous, and nobody would take him seriously, until his heartbeat slowed down to 30BPM and then 23BPM, still not listening, and had the cheek to say to me a pinched nerve in his neck was causing left arm pain.  DUHHHHH!!!!!!, I lost it at that stage to told the junior cardio what I thought about his qualifications, and his training. At that point the senior cardio walked past and said whats all the noise about, I turned on him as well, and in no uncertain terms told him what I thought, pointed at the junior and told him his so called jnr cardio's were idiots, much to my amazement he agreed, and ordered them to his office now, as they turned to go, he said, with his file, pointing at the file on the end of the bed.  Some time later senr came back congratulated me on my diagnostics skills, and told me I was right, it was his heart.  Three lead pacemaker installed the same afternoon, husband told me the change was instant, as soon as they switiched it on.  One differnce which we told the Dr's about was he had probelms peeeing, very slow, enlarged prostate, problem solved, also retaining water, no swollen ankles, but weight changing kilos over a week or so, again Dr's ignored as his ankles were not swollen, after pacemaker switched on he peeeed out 2-3 kils of fluid over the ext tweleve hours.  Back to walking 5 kilms a week, working in the garden, fixing lawnmowers, mowing five acres of land (ride on) and all the other maintenance required to keep tidy.

     

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      Hi Lyn thank you for your response I really appreciate it. I have had a 24 monitor but i only had to click this button everytime I had an "episode" but just my luck I had a particularly good day, nothing really came back from that just sort from them saying I get ectopic beats.

      Weirdly though (I don't know if this is relevant) but as you mentioned about water retention, I do get it slightly on my legs, everything I wear leaves a imprinted mark for a while, even just leggings! I didn't really think this could be related but who knows.

      The cardiologists never really understand because they're not going through it themselves so how could they possibly know how it's affecting one person as its different for everyone! Maybe I should try tell my cardiologist exactly what I think 😂

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