Aortic dissection?? PLEASE ANSWER!!!?!
Question: i think i'm having an aortic dissection of my heart..... i fit the symptoms and i have a medical condition where i can have them. look at this website (at the bottom) and you'll see my condition listed Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. i fit almost all the symptoms of a aortic dissection. here are my symptoms that are symptoms with an aortic dissection -
Chest pain
-Sudden, severe, sharp, stabbing, tearing, or ripping
-Located below the chest bone, then moves under the shoulder blades or to the back
-May move to shoulder, neck, arm
Location may change -- pain typically moves to the arms
Changes in thought ability, confusion, disorientation
Decreased movement,
Decreased sensation,
Intense anxiety, anguish
Rapid, weak pulse
Profuse sweating (clammy skin)
Dry skin
Dry mouth
Nausea
Dizziness
Fainting
Shortness of breath
i just don't have -
vomiting
thirst
pallor
it begins suddenly and it keeps going on for about 30 minutes. and my left arm goes numb when i get a attack
Answers: i think i'm having an aortic dissection of my heart..... i fit the symptoms and i have a medical condition where i can have them. look at this website (at the bottom) and you'll see my condition listed Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. i fit almost all the symptoms of a aortic dissection. here are my symptoms that are symptoms with an aortic dissection -
Chest pain
-Sudden, severe, sharp, stabbing, tearing, or ripping
-Located below the chest bone, then moves under the shoulder blades or to the back
-May move to shoulder, neck, arm
Location may change -- pain typically moves to the arms
Changes in thought ability, confusion, disorientation
Decreased movement,
Decreased sensation,
Intense anxiety, anguish
Rapid, weak pulse
Profuse sweating (clammy skin)
Dry skin
Dry mouth
Nausea
Dizziness
Fainting
Shortness of breath
i just don't have -
vomiting
thirst
pallor
it begins suddenly and it keeps going on for about 30 minutes. and my left arm goes numb when i get a attack
Unless you have vascular EDS (type IV) I wouldn't worry so much about it being your aorta. Try and calm down and see if the chest pain is still there.
The thing about the symptoms you listed, while I'm sure they apply to AAA's, they're sort of vague and would apply to at least half the the diseases out there--including anxiety.
you'll be shortly without surgical intervention -call 911.
Anxiety alone can cause more than half of the symptoms on your list, which is likely to result from thinking you have a serious condition like an aortic dissection. I am an echo tech (I conduct cardiac ultrasounds) and I wish I had a nickel for every time a patient self diagnosed themselves wrongly. I don't know your history and I have not conducted any tests on you, but I would bet that what you are experiencing is a musculoskeletal injury with secondary anxiety. If I were a doctor I would order an echo to cover my own ***, an MRI if your chest pain was persistant and debilitating, and I would prescribe .25 mg alprazolam PRN to combat the anxiety. Then if any of the tests showed any irregularities I would refer you to a specialist. However I am not a doctor, so I recommend that you see one, and let me know if he follows the same course of treatment. :D