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What tests should I be insisting on with my symptom's?

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gem1971
gem1971

Hi all

I'm unsure if I have a heart problem, for the past 2 years I have been lightheaded, foggy headed, tinnitus and felt generally ill with some heart palpitations.

This changed over the past couple of weeks to be nausea, random thronging pains in my jaw, arms, throat, feel like I can't breath or I'm about to pass out and stop breathing for most of the day, have a dry throat and mouth when this happens, some acid

I generally feel the most rubbish I have ever felt and I'm not saying I want to do anything bad but I'm at the end of my coping with this. It's starting to make me ring in sick to work and withdraw from social situations.

What tests should I be asking to be done to satisfy this isn't my heart or lungs and km not just going to drop down dead?

Doctor says it's anxiety but I feel we've come to that conclusion before ruling out some potentially serious things.

6 months ago I had an ecg and an echo which were ok and 2 different gp's this week have told me my BP and oxygen levels are fine and my heart and lungs sound fine. What else is there?

Thank you all

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  • Sway
    Sway gem1971

    Posted

    Ct scan or mri but you had an ech of your heart so it soounds like anxiety
  • peter01729
    peter01729 gem1971

    Posted

    Anxiety seems to be the latest fashion for the medical profession to get rid of you when they cannot find the answer, I am going through the same thing, I scored zero on the anxiety test. I bought myself a Prince 180B to take my own ecg when i felt I was having palpitations and feeling strangled,  I was then able to show them I had Ventricular Tachycardia.
  • lyn1951
    lyn1951 gem1971

    Posted

    If you really feel it is your heart, buy yourself a fitbit, a high end one can record your heart beat and what it is doing, where the Dr's tests are only at a given few minuets of any given day, and just like the car, won't repeat the click or clunk when you take it to the mechanic.

    You can download the results of you fitbit to your computer and compare good times with bad times, even you will be able to see the diffrence, friend saved by one of these fitbits, took it to his regular GP, they sent for an ambulance with his results, and had him admitted to heart hospital, problem solved by ablation and pacemaker.

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