Heart palpitations/sharp pain in heart for 7 years after Salmonella Infection.
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Hello!!
This is my first post on here! So I will just get right to it. I am a 25 year old male, I am fit, I exercise 5 days a week, and I eat very clean. I take no medications. I also have not been to a doctor for a wellness exam in 9 years, since I was 16.
When I was 18 years old, I got Salmonella food poisoning. I vomited at least 40-50 times in 8 hours. After 5 or so it was just stomach bile. Most of them were just violent dry heaves with a small amount of stomach bile. Until the last 10 or so and that is when blood started coming out. I had become so dehydrated that I could bot stand up and my jaw locked shut and I could not open my mouth. After 12 hours of this with zero water, I went to the emergency room. By that point, all of the blood vessels in my eyes had popped from the pressure and they were blood red. When I went in, my temp was low, at 96.5 F (35.83 C) and my heart rate was 150 BPM. Also my blood pressure was actually low. They ran 6 bags of saline through an IV to get me hydrated and gave me pain and anti-nausea meds. 8 hours later I left and was feeling much better. And I slept for 16 hours haha.
Shortly after i noticed I would get heart palpitations and a sharp chest pain occassionally. Not all the time. Sometimes it would not happen for weeks at a time. And then I would have a day where it would happen a lot. It has been on and off like that for 7 years now. I dont have any other weird things happening and I am healthy all things considered. But it is still there every now and again. I have never got it checked out by a doctor or even seen a general doctor for a checkup in 9 years. Should I get this check out? Its been years and it has not caused any problems, more of just an occasional discomfort. I just dont want to get any tests done that will be pointless if it is nothing.
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