question... any help would be nice - General Health Message Board

onesongglory · 02-14-2005, 02:38 AM

lately i have been experiencing a "pinch" in my like.. heart area every now and then when i breathe in.

it's really weird, it just comes at random, i use to get it a lot as a young child, but after several years it passed away... but recently it this feeling has come back.

does anyone know what this is? it's very awkward and starting to concern me.

thanks.

kerry1 · 02-14-2005, 02:28 PM

Any other symptoms? I get that on rare occasion - I usually assume it's a gas bubble in my stomach. Have you noticed that it goes away if you breathe in really deeply and then let go? I try to do that to pop the gas bubble.

Soulcatcher · 02-14-2005, 02:35 PM

I also get it from gas, in fact it just happend a few minutes ago and it was a fast pinch and it scared me. Usually it lasts up to a few to several breaths. I learned a trick if you take a breath and hold it for a little bit it will move the gas bubble. It feels like it is directly in my heart too, sometimes I can not take in a full breath. They can do an ultrasound on your heart to see if you have a mitrovalve prolapse. Better safe then sorry. Good luck

onesongglory · 02-14-2005, 08:49 PM

that sounds exactly like what i have

how do you know that it is a gas bubble?

kerry1 · 02-15-2005, 11:52 AM

How do I know it's a gas bubble? Good question. Maybe because it goes away after I breathe in deeply, and doesn't come back. And because it's been happening since I was a kid and has never gotten worse. And heart disease doesn't run in my family. And there are no other symptoms of heart problems. You've heard the term "heartburn", of course. It refers to stomach pain, not heart pain. The stomach is so close to the heart that any distress in there will sometimes feel like heart pain.

I think a genuine heart attack feels more like an ache, though it depends on the individual. And the pain spreads down the left arm. And you break out in a cold sweat, and become disoriented.