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Orange Lightning
13-01-13, 19:23
As you can probably tell from the title of my post, I'm worried to no end! I have an echo coming up on Tuesday, but based on today/tonight's symptoms I'm now pretty convinced they're going to find something wrong with my heart. I've had a tight chest, dizziness and palpatations all day despite a good night's sleep. I even have had trouble belching - something I made the mistake of Googling in the past, and finding out it COULD be related to cardiovascular problems, including heart attacks. I'd be more ready to accept these as anxiety if that's all there was to it.

Just now when I finished eating (and earlier when I stood up out of a car) I felt a shooting, mild pain moving from my left shoulder to my hand. Suddenly felt a surge of pressure in my chest, and my heart started to pound more rapidly. The left of my chest just under the armpit mildly hurt constantly, and felt rather full. Even now, I am still experiencing discomfort in my left arm and shoudler, and tightness in my chest, a full 30 minutes after.

The pressure and pains only lasted a few seconds - 30 tops if put together - but the long-term discomfort has convinced my horrid mindset that I've had a mini heart attack or PVC and not realised. I dare not Google anything, as I have already had a very stressful day (family, health and work issues alike), so any advice is much appreciated as always!

AuntieMoosie
13-01-13, 19:32
Hello :)

Firstly well done on not Googling, it wont help you, it will just frighten you because we don't really understand everything that we're reading:)

The symptoms that you have can be linked to anxiety, the problem being that when you get the one symptom, you then get frightened and anxious and before you know where you are, you've got the whole cabang of symptoms :)

But you're doing the right thing by having the echo done because they'll be able to see all of your heart and how it's working and, hopefully will be able to put your mind at rest hun :) :hugs: