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Though I have had acid reflux for years now and recent identifcation of a small hiatus hernia, I have also just been diagnosed with heart disease following a nuclear test.
The thing is I cant distinguish one symptom from another when considering acid...or heart?? Its making me worry and as we know worry will exacerbate both disorders.
I have been breathless for what seems an age now and its got progressivley worse. Heart or acid? Both? Doc not saying its definately one or the other. Changed my PPI's to Rabeprazole (Pariet) too see if the breathlessness eases. Its got so bad I rarely go anywhere these days and even everyday mundane tasks are hard to finish. I have 3 teenagers at home and life can be hard and stressful so if you feel you cant breathe very well on top it makes you feel like giving up!
Then theres the pains. What constitutes bad pain? Isnt it personal interpretation? It baffles me that you can have dramatically painful heart atttacks and silent ones that you dont even know have happened. I am asked 'do you have chest pain'? I say yes but I dont think its heart because I get vague aches and pains in chest, arms plus what feels like indigestion pains but most of my upper pain diminishes on burping. Would a heart pain go away like that? I would have thought not.
I get pain in my back - lung area relieved by changing position and pushing onto the backs of chairs. is it acid? is it heart?...because heart pain can be felt at the back. How am I to know?
Then theres heart flutters. Acid? heart? How am I ever going to know?
Thats where the worry comes in. Anxiety. bad for acid bad for heart. Now I have both diagnosis' I feel alarm that I cant tell one disorder pain from the other. Unless a crisis brought something very obvious I feel I am in the dark about knowing when I should be seeking help. How many times might I cry wolf and its acid related? If that happens will I learn to 'not bother' people and then one time it turns out not to be acid?
I am to see a cadiac consultant soon possibly about an angiogram but at least for a chat and I shall be raising these issues. I hope he can dispel some of them for me because I feel like a walking time borab day to day.
Any thoughts?
benzos
The thing is I cant distinguish one symptom from another when considering acid...or heart?? Its making me worry and as we know worry will exacerbate both disorders.
I have been breathless for what seems an age now and its got progressivley worse. Heart or acid? Both? Doc not saying its definately one or the other. Changed my PPI's to Rabeprazole (Pariet) too see if the breathlessness eases. Its got so bad I rarely go anywhere these days and even everyday mundane tasks are hard to finish. I have 3 teenagers at home and life can be hard and stressful so if you feel you cant breathe very well on top it makes you feel like giving up!
Then theres the pains. What constitutes bad pain? Isnt it personal interpretation? It baffles me that you can have dramatically painful heart atttacks and silent ones that you dont even know have happened. I am asked 'do you have chest pain'? I say yes but I dont think its heart because I get vague aches and pains in chest, arms plus what feels like indigestion pains but most of my upper pain diminishes on burping. Would a heart pain go away like that? I would have thought not.
I get pain in my back - lung area relieved by changing position and pushing onto the backs of chairs. is it acid? is it heart?...because heart pain can be felt at the back. How am I to know?
Then theres heart flutters. Acid? heart? How am I ever going to know?
Thats where the worry comes in. Anxiety. bad for acid bad for heart. Now I have both diagnosis' I feel alarm that I cant tell one disorder pain from the other. Unless a crisis brought something very obvious I feel I am in the dark about knowing when I should be seeking help. How many times might I cry wolf and its acid related? If that happens will I learn to 'not bother' people and then one time it turns out not to be acid?
I am to see a cadiac consultant soon possibly about an angiogram but at least for a chat and I shall be raising these issues. I hope he can dispel some of them for me because I feel like a walking time borab day to day.
Any thoughts?
benzos