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It feels like someone's is stabbing me in the heart.

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noah.poirier9
noah.poirier9

For the past year I have been having heart pain and it feels like someone is stabbing me in the heart but it only lasts like 45 seconds at a time. The pain increases a LOT when I breath in. I only get it about 3 or 4 times a month. 

Someone please tell tell me what this is and what's do I do about it?

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  • peter01729
    peter01729 noah.poirier9

    Posted

    Now for most of my life I occassionly had something similar, as if my heart got caught on something so that if I breathed any deeper, the stabbing or sharp pulling pain would increase, so I would have to take rapid shallow breaths instead until it passed.
  • gary5579
    gary5579 noah.poirier9

    Posted

    I went through what you describe several years ago.  Are you under a lot of stress?  At the time I experienced this I was working in a very stressful job, and it led to me having a heart attack and having to have a triple bypass.  Not saying that is what you have, but you should get checked out ASAP just to make sure.  If you have a family doctor tell him what you're going through, and he will recommend a specialist who will get to the bottom of it.  Good luck!  

    • apolyergus
      apolyergus gary5579

      Posted

      My best friend died about 3 weeks ago. I have gone to the doctors i have seen multiple times in the past(i dont have a family doctor) and they have actually seemed to care less the minute they found out i went to the hospital and nothing seemed wrong. I have had no follow up tests and have even been told they wont bother with CT or MRI. I hope it is just stress and not something bigger. I will try to calm down. Thank you for your reply.
    • gary5579
      gary5579 apolyergus

      Posted

      They likely would not order CT or MRI when blood work or an EKG would reveal if you have any type of heart issue.  If the doctors you've seen are not taking you serious you may want to seek out another hospital.  It is not uncommon to be misdiagnosed, or for doctors to completely overlook a serious health condition altogether. It happens.  It might just be stress, but then again it could be something more serious.  Try to control your stress, there are videos on YouTube that work wonders.  Use headphones if you have them.  Destressing will at least rule that out as a cause of your chest pains.  Good luck! 

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