No news is…well, no news
Posted on September 20th, 2012
I still don’t know what the deal with my heart is. I still get chest pains. The doctor’s office, pending results, has basically told me not to exert myself. O…kay. So I’ll get someone else to carry my 50 pound kid to bed and lift her onto the top bunk. Or I’ll just do it, anyway. That’s not too much exertion, is it?
I’m hoping they get the report today. This is what I expect: “It all looks great. We have no idea why you have chest pains. Let’s just wait and see.”
Right? It’s what usually happens. It can happen again.
Categories: Not crazy...yet, Sick Mom
How’s your gallbladder?
He’s a bastard who has given me shit for twenty years and I get unbearably queasy if I eat animal fat.
Unfortunately, all my labs look fabulous and it never looks abnormal on scans. (And has been scanned within the last six months.) So I have a hell of a time convincing anyone that there’s something wrong with it. This is the refrain: “Your labs look great! Let’s just wait and see!”
I went through this same thing recently. I do have RA so I thought it might be costochondritis, but too periodic and like heart pain. Ended up at ER just like you. Had full cardiac workup, all clear (yay!) DX was esophogeal spasms. I am now on Imdur which actually helps my Raynaud’s too. They started me on something else but it ah, slowed things, ah down a bit, that I take miralax for anyway, and Imdur doesn’t do that. I am on NSAIDs and beyond that have family history of GERD and have had 2 scopes that both showed “mild” hiatal hernia. I am also on Aciphex and developing a love/hate relationship with tomatoes (that I had already developed with peppers). Anyway just wanted to say I know how frustrating this can be! The GI spasms are pretty indistiguishable from chest pain. Hope that they dx something ASAP and that it is something easily treated! I am doing better as long as I avoid interesting food. Sigh.
That’s good info to have! (I have a very minor case of Barrett’s esophagus.) I have taken some flexeril that I have for my back; it didn’t seem to do much, but the pains have been getting a little better. Worse in the evenings.
The other weird thing is that if I drink warm water, it helps. (This sucks for my diet soda habit, though, unless I develop the taste for warm DDP.) So I dunno. I’m still waiting on results that I was promised by today. Grrr.
And now that I read your gallbladder comment… you just need to find a surgeon that has some bills to pay. Okay that is tacky to say, but I just had some sludge on ultrasound, but I did have elevated amylase, and had mine taken out last year, they were pretty quick to do it. I do feel better afterwards and no ill affects after the fact.