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Good afternoon everyone,
This is something I never thought id sign up to, but I'm needing your help!
I suffered chest pains approx two months ago now and attended A&E, to be kept in overnight and tests ran on me, all coming back perfectly normal.
I have been to my local GP well over ten times in the last two months all with this same pain in my chest.
They have also ran numerous tests all coming back completely normal, however this pain in my chest isn't subsiding at all.
I have been having bad twitches and having aches elsewhere in my body, which my doctor advised may be down to anxiety.
I cannot get out my head that something bad is going to happen to me by way of health, I'm struggling to attend my work due to this matter and I'm struggling to focus on anything else in my life other than this problem. All I do is sit at home and worry about myself all day.
The doctor has prescribed me some beta blockers, but I want to beat this problem without the use of tablets.
If anyone has any suggestions then please get in touch, anything would be appreciated.
Thanks
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borderriever James2108
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Take your tablet, if you dont you will never know if they are going to work
Heart/chest pains can be put down as Anxiety so your GP has checked you out and you need to accept your results. The problem is you cannot keep having many of these tests some can cause damage in their own right
You can try Mindfulness Relaxation Technique, that will help you relax and hopefully reduce your heart pains
Take your medication it may only be a one off
BOB
James2108 borderriever
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Thanks for your reply BOB.
I don't believe im having any heart pains, I think the pains are in fact coming from my Chest, but im not sure if its anxiety or not, the doctors aren't 100% sure either, I think that is what is giving me this anxiety.
What is this mindfulness relaxation technique you are speaking about?
borderriever James2108
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Mindfulness is a Relaxation Technique. You will find an explanation on site or your GP may have an explanation at our Surgery I understand the nurse has an explanation of the technique. Your GP should be able to get an explanation of the technique for you or look on ebay books or Amazon Books
BOB
bhabersham James2108
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James2108 bhabersham
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Thanks for the reply Bhabersham.
I too can't get over that this may be anxiety that im feeling. Must chest produces pain right around the breastbone, but I can't understand how anxiety can make you feel something like that.
If you touch yourself in the area that is sore and it is sore, is that still anxiety?
I think I'm going to have to try the tablets that i've been prescribed as I too are at a dead end with this now.
I feel like I'm just sitting waiting for something to happen to me, but with the checks coming back clear then i'm obviously in good health.
bhabersham James2108
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James2108 bhabersham
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Yeah I'm also getting the palpitations, sweaty feeling and sore heads, along with other symptoms.
Cannot believe that something in your mind can give you these sort of problems, but im trying to accept it and will probably start with the tablets to see if they work, because if I don't try ill never know I suppose.
kim27383 bhabersham
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I am in the same boat and on the same medicine. I now sleep with my Bible and I'm ok with that. I've turned into a hypochondriac since I started having the chest pains. I'm working on it day by day.
bhabersham kim27383
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kim27383 James2108
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I have pain in my sternum area and pain around it. It hurts to touch it. They originally said acid reflux and then another doctor said costochrontitis which is inflammation around the joint areas. I also have rib pain and it hurts to touch those too. My pain comes and goes. Yesterday I was told by a physical therapist that it's musculoskeletal because of the way I sit and my posture at my desk at work. I'm an administrative assistant and my job is very stressful. The pain always seems to be worse at work. I have had several EKGs a credit scan with contrast, a chest x ray, and the stress test on the treadmill with two more EKGs. They say it's not my heart either but I still wonder and worry. I have other symptoms too and panic attacks. I'm on Lexapro. It's been a couple of months and I'm on acid reflux meds, doc thinks I have an certain too. They also did an ultrasound of my abdominal organs and everything was good. I have GI appointments and I am having an MRI of my head done as soon as they schedule it. The chest pains altered when they started. I always had panic attacks but they made me worry about everything even the color of my urine. I totally get where you're coming from.
kim27383 bhabersham
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I asked my doctor if she thought I was crazy she said no you just have problems but we will figure this out. I really like her. She's an internal medicine clinic and I have gotten more responsible from her trying to figure things out than I ever have at any other clinic. Although I'm sure she would like me to see a psychologist also and it has been suggested by a few people.
James2108 kim27383
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Kim, I was also advised firstly acid reflux then chostrochonditis, but the meds they gave me did absolutely nothing to help. Ive had several ECG's all coming back fine and also numerous blood test on various things all fine. My pain comes and goes in waves, so I can only imagine this must be anxiety from the original episode I had back a couple a months ago and I haven't been able to defeat it.
Im going to continue to defeat this one way or another and need to stop getting down about it!
kim27383 James2108
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They gave me Omeprazole and then pantoprozole and I know I do have acid reflux because I've had the acid in my throat before. I didn't have a med for the costochrontitis except ibuprofen and then my stomach was so messed up and I had bilirubin in my urine so doc suspected an ulcer that I had made bleed. That's why all the different diagnosis. I still have the pain. I even have worse pain while stressed which also points to anxiety for me but I have other stuff going on too. Mine comes and goes too. Funny I was at work this afternoon sitting at my desk and had pains during a lit of the afternoon. I get off work pick up my kids then I go to the grocery store, come home clean my house, bag up all the trash and dirty laundry, vaccuum and I have no pains at all after all of that. My nights are usually pain free unless I turn the wrong way and then I adjust and feel better. Do you have any similarities with that?
James2108 kim27383
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I too was in the same boat, prescribed stuff for acid reflux and also costro, but neither did anything, which maybe tends to suggest it is anxiety related, but not sure why this would have started.
Same as me, I was out clearing snow and have been keeping my fitness up with no pain at all, then out of nowhere boom it hits my chest again. Ive been getting other symptoms like a sore chin and sore elbow, also strangely been getting sore areas around my nipples.
At night once I get to sleep im fine, but trying to get to sleep is awful, I can lay awake for hours thinking about the pain.
bhabersham James2108
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