chest pain

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I am a 34 y//o male who has been having some weird chest pains for the past year. I get these crazy pains and tingling down my left arm into my pinky. I have gone to the hospital numerous times and everything always comes up negative. I had a CT, EKG, Xrays, blood work and everything is negative. I was told Anxiety before and also Reflux. I can live with them telling me that but the pains are in the center of my chest and I can't imagine none of those test finding anything. Mind you these test have been done by both military and civilian doctors. I was wondering if anyone has any insite on this issue and can maybe assure me the docs are not doing anything wrong. Thanks

-Mike-:confused:
 
Hi, Mike . . . I have anxiety and tend to get sudden chest pains in the center of my chest (usually within a few minutes to a couple of hours after eating). I do have irritable bowel syndrome (which can affect you up that high) and low grade asthma.

As a reassurance tool, I often massage the area that is hurting and even over the stomach. If you start to feel air moving around inside there, the pressure from the gas can press on your parasympathetic nerves and feel like heart pains. Also, sometimes if you cough, you can get some phlegm out that might be irritating your bronchial tubes (same area) and possibly even trapped air out of the esophagus (anxious people tend to swallow air).

When you start getting these pains, try the massage and cough thing. Hopefully that will relieve it for you. If not, you may need to seek a second opinion.

Lindaru :)
 
Hi Mike,

Does heart disease run in your family? I'm quite familiar with it since my father had it and my husband had his first bypass surgery at age 37. Of all the tests you mentioned, I didn't see a stress test listed. They have a test - it used to be called a thalium stress test. You get on a treadmill for awhile. They have some kind of dye that they put in an IV and they can get better pictures of the heart before and after running on a treadmill. That test can show if there are area's of the heart that are not getting oxygen. If they find that, then usually a cardiac cath. is done, which is more invasive. I don't think EKG's always show if there is a blockage in the arteries to the heart. Just something to think about if this continues.

Best wishes,
JB
 
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