Anyone get chest pains like me? - Heart Disorders Message Board

wasley81 · 01-07-2008, 10:04 AM

I have been suffering from chest pains on my left side for about 6/7 years now and can't seem to get a proper diagnosis for it.
I have been going to doctors and specialist for years and everyone is baffled itâ€™s so frustrating to have a really bad pain and know one knows whatâ€™s going on.

I find it so hard to describe to doctors I get so many different sorts of pains in different areas of my chest and back.
It 1st started when I got a really bad chest infection that lasted about 6 months constantly cough up nasty stuff.
My left hand side has just felt so wrong since this chest infection; I get really bad stabbing pains in between my ribs, about 3rd/4th up, it almost feels like a really painful stitch.
I get pains down the centre of my rib cage its feels like I have been hit with a big bat and when I push down it kinda relieves some pressure.
I feel like the whole of my left side is really tight.
The worst pain I get is a very deep dull pain in the middle of my chest from front to back its feels like some muscles have tighten up around my heart/lungs. It constantly feels like I need to stretch this muscle I canâ€™t get too.
Sometimes when my pains are bad my I get a lot of heart flutters and my heart just beats really hard onceâ€¦.its so painful just for a few seconds then goes away.

I could sit hear all day telling you what I have tried and what hasn't worked...I seem to get knowwhere, I've had every test you can think of on my chest apart from a cat scan (I canâ€™t seem to get the docs to give me one).

I have a constant dull pain and presure feeling that drives me round the bend!

I was going on the theory that I had some sort of chronic pleurisy coz that would kind a make sense but my chest sounds fineâ€¦the problem and most of the pain seems to be coming from my heart.??

Can anyone help me? or is anyone experiancing the same thing?
Iâ€™d love to hear from someone that knows what Iâ€™m on about.

kaza76 · 01-11-2008, 02:22 PM

I had simialr feelings, and like you had many tests. Have you been fitted with a 24 hour heart tape? I did 3 times and each time it came back clear, which is a good thing, they have now diagnosed me with a word i can say let alone tpye, but it is imflamation of the ribs, they have described the pain similar to heart problems, but unfortunately nothing they canm so. It is recommended to try to keep good posture, and do light upper body exercise.
Hope you get it sorted soon.

Shelby88 · 01-18-2008, 07:18 PM

I get these exact symptoms; you couldn't have explained them better. I am a young 23 year old, healthy women and I have been experiencing these chest pains for the past three years but have been occurring my constant these last three months. I have gone through a stress test, hooked up to a EKG many times and have been in the ER were they have run and bunch of tests looking at my heart and my lungs and they have come up with no good reason. One doctor said it was anxiety but it is hard for me to believe that anxiety could cause pain like this for me. I get so frustrated because having these pains a re scary and really interfere with my life. I just want an explanation, I don't want pain killer to cover the pain but I want to know what it is and how to fix it. Let me know if you come up with anything.

Good luck to us both!

Lutheran122 · 01-20-2008, 08:23 AM

I am in the same boat , unexplained chest pains..had an angiogram and while it showed some narrowed vessels it was nothing that would give me pain. Had a few x-rays , cat-scans etc..no answer..could be my statin medicines though I can't stop taking them and I have tried most of them. I hate living with this chest pain , it makes me sad and does affect my life a great deal. It does feel like a muscle/ribcage ache at times but other times it definitely feels like my heart muscles are inflammed...sucks to be me but I guess every day above ground is a good day.

flowergirl2day · 01-20-2008, 11:21 PM

Lutheran,

how often do you get your chest pain? Are there any triggers? I have been having some chest pain as well. As you, I suspect my medication to be its cause. The pharmacist talked me into trying a generic brand of my calcium channel blocker. I started having problems on the first day of taking this drug. Its' better now, almost a week and a half later. The pain is scary because it's hard to predict just how bad it's going to get. What about yours? Do you normally have angina? I really am sorry to hear about your chest pain. How are your lipids - are you keeping the inflammation in check?