just wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar to me. recently i have been having a burning sensation where my heart is at the same time my pulse seems to beat quicker i have pains in my forearm and tingling in my fingers head and face. at night i sometimes get a shunt aswell i think this is caused by an irregular heartbeat and as it skips 1 the next is really powerful and sometimes moves me. i can also feel myself moving with my heartbeat as if i am being rocked or swaying. anybody got any comments i would really appreciate them. i have been taking adalat 20 for the last 4 weeks
thanks
ronnie

I have same kind of problems too. Just yesterday when I was working, the left side of my chest (where the heart is) started to hurt. I had to sit down and I was holding my chest for a while. Soon the pain was gone.
But last night I almost couldn't sleep because the pain returned. I don't know what is wrong. I think my heart beat is ok, and my arms didn't hurt or anything.
But just a few hours ago when I picked up a heavy object, I felt like someone would have stabbed me to my chest (to the area where the heart is). I thought that I'm gonna die or something.
Now that I'm writing this I still feel some kind of burning in my chest, but other than that I feel just fine. I don't know how worried should I be and is it really my heart that is "malfunctioning". Or could there be something wrong with my left lugn because when I was holding my breath, I didn't feel any pain, but when I started breathing again, I started to feel the pain right away.

I don't know is it just stress that is causing this, but I doubt that because I have had this same kind of pain over an year now. But it has never felt so bad as now and back then I just thought that it is just some normal everyday pain. I probably have to go and see a doctor...

Originally posted by Finnishflesh:
I have same kind of problems too. Just yesterday when I was working, the left side of my chest (where the heart is) started to hurt. I had to sit down and I was holding my chest for a while. Soon the pain was gone.
But last night I almost couldn't sleep because the pain returned. I don't know what is wrong. I think my heart beat is ok, and my arms didn't hurt or anything.
But just a few hours ago when I picked up a heavy object, I felt like someone would have stabbed me to my chest (to the area where the heart is). I thought that I'm gonna die or something.
Now that I'm writing this I still feel some kind of burning in my chest, but other than that I feel just fine. I don't know how worried should I be and is it really my heart that is "malfunctioning". Or could there be something wrong with my left lugn because when I was holding my breath, I didn't feel any pain, but when I started breathing again, I started to feel the pain right away.

I don't know is it just stress that is causing this, but I doubt that because I have had this same kind of pain over an year now. But it has never felt so bad as now and back then I just thought that it is just some normal everyday pain. I probably have to go and see a doctor...

Well friend, it could be one of 2 things. A) Unstable angina*, B) Acid reflux, or as doctors like to call it these days, "GERD" (Gastro Esophgal Reflux Disease), because caling it HAERTBURN it doesnt sound too professional anymore.(!)
*Unstable angina is heart pain caused by restricted blood flow to the heart muscle due to partialy clogged coronary arteries. It is called unstable because it only happens during exersise or heavy work when the heart muscle needs the extra oxygen. Stable agina is when the coronary arteries are almost completely blocked and it hurts even at rest. Nitroglycerin is the drug of choice to temporarily expand the arteries allowing more oxygenated blood flow to the heart muscle thus relieving the symptoms but it is not a cure.
Tests will determine what's going on. A good experienced doctor can tell you so go see one.
Good luck!

Originally posted by 1btg:
Unstable angina is heart pain caused by restricted blood flow to the heart muscle due to partialy clogged coronary arteries. It is called unstable because it only happens during exersise or heavy work when the heart muscle needs the extra oxygen. Stable agina is when the coronary arteries are almost completely blocked and it hurts even at rest.!



1btg,

I think you accidently flipped unstable and stable in your descriptions of them. His symptoms of pain after moving a box, followed by the return at a later time when not exercising is the kind of off and on unstable angina that I felt for 1.5 mos prior to my MI. So where you list it could be unstable angina, that is correct. If that is a possibility, then the first course of action for Finnie should be to get to the hospital and have it checked out.

Originally posted by ubernier:
1btg,

I think you accidently flipped unstable and stable in your descriptions of them. His symptoms of pain after moving a box, followed by the return at a later time when not exercising is the kind of off and on unstable angina that I felt for 1.5 mos prior to my MI. So where you list it could be unstable angina, that is correct. If that is a possibility, then the first course of action for Finnie should be to get to the hospital and have it checked out.

Wooooopsssssss, sorry I did flip them.......