25 yr old with chest pain and no one can figure it out - Open to All Other Health Topics Message Board

neonchas2001 · 07-15-2008, 09:41 PM

I am 25 and i have been having chest pain since feb 2008. that is 5 months. They thought it was panic attacks, then they said it was asthma. Now i am on meds for asthma, but I still have chest pains and pressure. I have recently started having muscle spasm, and cramps like charlie horses but they are in my back, sides, hands, feet, arms, and legs. I have also started having joint pain, like arthritis . I have had ekg's that have came out normal, blood test that are all normal, an arthritis test that was normal. Has anyone had these symptoms before and/or know what it might be?

TEdds83 · 07-15-2008, 09:48 PM

Sounds like you could be suffering with anxiety. I know anxiety can bring on chest pain as well as a whole lot of other body symptoms. Try to relax. You are covering your bases by seeing a doctor.

B143C · 07-15-2008, 10:23 PM

I had this too and they sent me for every heart test in the book. I'm also in my twenties. Probably anxiety as they said mine was. You might look into Acid Reflux too if you have gastro symptoms. Gallbladder can also present itself as chest pain - but you would have other symptoms too.

neonchas2001 · 07-15-2008, 10:26 PM

I have seen a doctor that said panic and anxiety, then they ruled it to be asthma. I have tried different anti depressants to control the panic/anxiety (before they ruled it asthma) and none of them have worked, all they do is make me depressed which I was not depressed to begin with. My doc is now weening me off of the anti depressants and gives me colonapan .5 as needed for anxiety. his way of as needed is when needed is when i am so shook up i can't think. but anyway even when i take the colonapan it doesn't make the chest pain go away.

B143C · 07-15-2008, 10:33 PM

They had also given me some asthma meds. I never really took them - I didn't feel like I couldn't breath. The anxiety meds made me more anxious. I couldn't take those either. I understand that.

You can get a hernia there. It will cause chest pain. It's not serious at all, just uncomfortable. I had a baruim swallow x-ray which is just where you swallow real thick mylanta type liquid and they take x-rays.

Do you have any gasto symptoms like tenderness under the ribs?

You can also just have pain in your chest muscles or an inflammation of the chest wall called plueresy. * that's probably spelled wrong - that's not serious either, just hurts and they give you anti-inflammatories to bring it down. My brother is doc and they had someone in the ER once who thought he was having a heart attack. I thought he was too because he was holding his chest and couldn't breath. It was just pluresy. It must hurt pretty bad.