I am a 34 year old (active) male. Last January I had an episode were I had chest pains for about 2 weeks. I went to the dr and he ran a few test on me but while doing so I stopped having the pain. He chalked it up to indigestion and that was that. Fast forward to this past January and almost a year to the date the pain came back! Unfortunately for me this time it still hasn't went away! Earlier in the year i had all the cardio test(echo,stress,heart cath,nuc stress, ct with dye) and nothing showed up. I also had all the gall bladder checks. In June they were doing blood work and my d dimer (I think that's it) came back high so I was in PE protocol, had another Ct scan! Again showed nothing! Then I went down the mucsulare-skeletal road. Got shots for condgro but that still didnt work! Then I went down the gastro road, had an endoscopy and colonoscopy! (Not fun). Again found nothing. By this time I ended up changing DRS because mine was starting to act like I'm faking!( or at least that's how I felt) so now my new dr had me wear a monitor. It came back that I had had some p.a.c's but the cardiologists basically said those were not that big of a deal and scheduled my app for like 3 weeks from now! I am miserable! I can be absolutely fine playing with my 2 year old or sleeping and then bam it hits me! The pain it self is not always the same. Early on it was a stabbing beside my left nipple and my neck and left arm would just ache so bad! Then I started having a terrible feeling on both sides of my sternum, one that makes me stop what I'm doing and just freeze! The only thing that has stayed consistant with the pain is that when I get to the end of my breathe talking, I can feel a sharp pain mildly. I have always been an active person( i play softball, coach softball, golf) always on the go. But since this has started I have had to stop all of that. This pain is making me crazy! It is affecting my job my marriage, basically tearing my life up slowly. People have brought anxiety but I can literally be in the middle of a happy moment or asleep and it hit me. I'm also a very outgoing person so I just cant believe that is what it is. Has anyone else ever had something like this or heard of something similar?
Hi, I’m am going through pretty much exactly what you have described. I have been like this for a year now it has totally changed my life and I feel awful! I’m always in pain. I have a barium swallow this week which I am hoping for some answers and also a cardiologist app at the end of the month. I also get this horrid feeling in my sternum I feel faint and dizzy all the time and get weird headaches at the front of my head. I don’t know whether i am coming or going. I’ve had bloods done a ultrasound on my stomach chest x rays the list goes on but the can’t find anything. The only thing I haven’t had is a ct scan which I have asked for but they keep rejecting it because all my other tests were fine. I hope you find some answers soon.