chest pains.....

I'm going to my PCP Thursday at 1:30 to follow up on 2 episodes of chest pains I had recently. Friday I was out on my lunch break doing errands and all of a sudden my chest felt like someone was crushing it - the pain was between my breasts - in that area - whatever it's called....chest.... anyway, I got shortness of breath. My stomach was empty - hadn't eaten anything in 2 hours and had water in me. After pain kept getting worse, I finally started heading towards ER and then pain went away. I was fine and it was as if nothing happened. Weird. So everything's been fine since then, but then yesterday (Tuesday) I'm at my desk working - nothing stressful or anything, and that HORRIBLE crushing chest pain comes again. So I go to a dark conference room and lay down for a few minutes and then the pain goes away. So I call Dr. Fang because twice in 4 days is a bit much and I have no heart or pulmonary issue history. My BP is 120/65 lately - which is good. So I call him and they put me through to him right away - chest pains get's ya through I guess - and I tell him what happened. He said his first thought was pulmonary embolism - blood clot in my lungs - but if it was that - the pain wouldnt' have gone away in a few minutes like mine did. He wonders if it's my heart. I'm like SHUT UP! LOL (I didn't say that) Anyway, he said my BP is normal, but to go to ER if it happens again, but to call my PCP asap and get in for an appt for EKG and stuff. He said that it's best if I have an EKG when the episode happens that way they know if it's my heart or not. I'm like, there's only been two episodes and they only lasted 5-10 minutes. And I told him on both occassions I hadn't eaten anything before it happened or anything. It just came up all of a sudden. VERY SCARY!! It was like someone was sitting on my chest and crushing me and I couldnt' breath. Very freaky. So I called my PCP yesterday and have an appt with her on Thursday at 1:30 to see what is going on. I know I'm going to go in and BP and EKG will be normal. Ugh. Maybe I'm just running around too much and I need to slow things down. My body isn't used to me being so busy I guess. But don't freak out, I really doubt it's my heart. I didn't have heart issues or high BP before surgery and I'm 60 lbs lighter now so you'd think my heart would be grateful. I'll write you all again after my appointment with my PCP tomorrow. Keep me in your prayers please. Thanks so much!! Hugs, Trisha

I will definitely keep you in my prayers. Chest pains are nothing to fool around with, so I'm glad you're following up. Just last week my brother had the same symptoms you have and it was diagnosed as an esophogeal problem. He probably has GERD. He was sure he was having a heart attack. Take care.

I will keep you in my prayers and I hope everything goes okay at your doctor. I think it's good that you're getting it taken care of because it is definitley something you dont want to fool around with. I wish you luck and keep us updated on what happens Bonnie

Hi Trisha, I haven't had my surgery yet......its June 16th, but I wanted to let you know when I gave birth in Jan 03 I ended up with 2 PE's and CHF(caused by the PE's).........I did NOT have very many chest pains at all, everyone is different I know, but thought I'd mention this to you. The only symptons I had was difficult catching my breath, but that was only when I would walk up the stairs or get out of bed fast and I only had the chest pains maybe 3 times over the weekend and they came and went and weren't tooo bad at all!! HEck I have heartburn now that makes my chest hurt worse then when I had my CHF & PE's. PE's aren't anything to mess with and I don't want to scare you in to thinking you may have one, but I want you to be aware that people with PE's don't always have constant chest pains!! I did however know exactly when I got my PE's.......hyne-sight of course...All of a sudden I felt like I was hyper-ventilating(sp) like I couldn't breathe or catch my breath......this all happened on a Friday....and I didn't go to the hospital till MOnday........I even drove myself!! SO if you have any more chest pains and they do go away....go to the ER, just because they are going away don't mean there isn't a problem.! I will keep you in my prayers! Tabitha

Trisha..keep us update! I hope you start feeling better and you are def in my prayers! Courtney