Medical question-can you help please?!
Question: Two years ago the hospital diagnosed me with Angina, a mild form and put me on some nitrates, once a day. The pains got worse so my doctors sent me back to the hospital and they did some more tests and found nothing wrong with me and took me off the nitrates. I was very pleased to find out there was nothing wrong with my heart but was still concerned about the chest pains. It is a sharpe pain on my left side (under my bust) it can last anything from a few secs to 2 mins, it makes me double up and i can't breath till its gone, my husband has been with me when this happens and it is always when i am sat down? Since i have now come off these nitrates the pain has become more frequent and sometimes a tightening in the chest is felt. I just need to know what this is, the doctors have done all they can and i am worried.
Can you throw any light on this.
Answers: Two years ago the hospital diagnosed me with Angina, a mild form and put me on some nitrates, once a day. The pains got worse so my doctors sent me back to the hospital and they did some more tests and found nothing wrong with me and took me off the nitrates. I was very pleased to find out there was nothing wrong with my heart but was still concerned about the chest pains. It is a sharpe pain on my left side (under my bust) it can last anything from a few secs to 2 mins, it makes me double up and i can't breath till its gone, my husband has been with me when this happens and it is always when i am sat down? Since i have now come off these nitrates the pain has become more frequent and sometimes a tightening in the chest is felt. I just need to know what this is, the doctors have done all they can and i am worried.
Can you throw any light on this.
My first thought after i read your story was that there is smth wrong with your left lung since you described the pain as being sharp.The thing that doesn't match is the fact that you have been having these pains for more than 2 years.A lung pain usually goes away in a few months without treatment.And another aspect would be that lung pain doesn't go away after nitrates,while heart pain does most of the times.
I am thinking that the nitrates weren't administrated in a propper dose and that is why the pain didn't go away the first time.
As you described the pain it is tipicall for angina:a pain in the chest that often radiates in the left shoulder ,and slides down the arm and reaches the last two fingers.The patient usually can not breath during the episode and often sleeps on one or two pillows to make the breathing process eassier.When lugs represent the problem ,the patient doesn't need the pillows.
An explanation for the fact that you seem to be having these episodes when you are seatted is that your blood is distributed equally throughout your body and a large quantity reaches your heart and overcharges it.As it needs more oxygen to proccess this amount(and your heart doesn't provide it) you will result in pain.
When your standing most of your blood is diverted half down due to gravity.This doesn't overcharge your heart.
All in all i think that you might have a heart condition which is not too advanced and you can slow this proccess by taking in a smaller qantity of fats.These usually are deposited in your vessels and harden the blood flow which supplies the heart with oxygen.
i hope you will find out soon what the problem is.
Difficult to say from that - could be a lot of things. If you've had tests for angina and related conditions recently and are clear, it's likely to be something else.
It could be gastric/ indigestion related since it happens when you sit down, but could equally be muscular, to do with your lungs, or half a dozen other things.
Go to a doctor and explain in detail that you're worried. You're not going to get an accurate diagnosis over the internet and if you're worried your stress levels will increase and this will affect your overall health.
I would go to BUPA and have a full check.
It will be expensive but worth it.
I am not a doctor. It sounds to me like it could be nerves and that creates tension which in turn creates gas. Try drinking a 1/8 tsp. of baking soda in a 1/2 glass of water the next time you have this problem and see if that helps.
The only other thing I can think of is the possibility that something is out of alignment in your back and is pressing on a nerve that causes the pain.
When this happens to me... I bend over a counter and with arms bent at the elbow support my torso weight on my arms until the pain leaves.
Hope this helps.
I think we can rule out any 'medical cause' so that leaves, hate to say this but how is the weight? Again, it could be the Bra, large busts and under wire cutting in. Likewise it could be anxiety attack. Best of Luck