In Reply to: Re: Chest pain/short of breath posted by Chuck on July 23, 2000 at 09:29:39:

Hello,
My husband just had a stress test today. He's been having terrible chest pain when he overexerts himself. When he got on the treadmill, he was about 10 minutes into it and the pains came. The nurse said his heart was fine, but his blood pressure went sky high. The nurse seems to think the doctor is going to put him on high blood pressure meds right away.

: I just thought I should post that my girlfriend took me to the emergency room last night and they did blood tests and another EKG and everything was find, in fact I feel better now. Although they do have me on a 24 hour heart monitor and I have to have a stress test next week. The doctor at the hospital didn't know what caused it they said sometimes things like that happen to people.

: : I am 25 and have had several blood pressure checks by the doctor because it has been high. I had an EKG and blood tests and everything was normal but ever since I got up this morning I have had this sharp pain in the center of my chest and I have felt like I have been breathing harder than normal. Is it possible for someone my age to have a heart attack due to high blood pressure? I go to the doctor Tuesday to see if he's going to put me on medicine for my blood pressure, and I was wondering if I should go to the doctor before that to see why I have been having this chest pain. It's not all the time, but when it does come it hurts a lot. I'm scared. I don't know what's happening to me.