Question: I have been having chest pain for the last two years on & off. Sometimes at rest but mostly briught on by movement. Sex, waling, walking up a hill etc. the last couole months it has seemed to get worse. We go hunting & sometimes im out of breath at 100 yards sometumes more with chest pain. Dull achy pressure feeling. No stabbing. I have also experienced a couple timea lately gasping for air, just while sitting. No wheezing. Yesterday it happened again. And i had chest pain pretty bad all weekend. I had chest pain theiughout the night. We checked my bp, i have a cuff bc my doctor thinks its too low sometimes and i go to certain climates occasionally where he has me bring it incase. I normally fall 90/60 and sometimes over 50. Yesterday eveninv it got as high as 147/90 and stayed at 137/89 for a couple hours. My face also was heated and flushed. My husband noticed my hands tremoring which i could feel throughout my body. My mother died at 35 from ihss. My gramdfather died at 60 from ihss. And uncle diagnosed with it at 25. I have a high heart rate abd have been on atenolol for about 8 years.

I am still not feeling very hot now that I'm up and about. My bp started out low 90/60 range and has went up to 146/83 this morning highest but staying around 135/78 range. I'm afraid to go to the ER bc I don't think they will think that's high enough. I feel like kinda like my breasts r being squeezed together that kind of pressure. My cardiologist is booked for a month for echos. ??? What so you suggest now

I went to the ER. My face ended up going numb & remained numb fof a bout an hour yesterday. Scared me! It was tight fwwling for a couple hours adter. My BP was 150/82. They said that was not a concern. My blood work looked ok. They did an xray & catscan & ekg. No echo. Chest pain started letting up slong with other symptoms whills being there. Until right at the end it came back & rhe monitor picked up 4 skipped beats at the time as well as some pretty large atrial fiblerations. Ny face started to flush at XXXXXXX of those points. They gave me strict orders of bed rest until my cardiologist could see me on Wednesday. They are still trying to find a stress echo before a month but have not heard anything yet. Im feeling ok this morning, but if im anything like yestrday my chest will start hurting (i mean by pressure) when i walk to restroom. Taking it easy. Is there any key advice tiu could give i feel like some people overlook my age sometimes. And dont know enough about ihss. I also had been diagnosed in passed with APS antiphospholipid syndrome. I do not think it is related but i had a blood transfusion over night. The docs kept me for observation my bp was not high then & they didnt feel anythihg was wrong. I did not bleed out at all & they never found clots. I was the case of the missing blood. Any key things i can say to get attention or that i need to make sure they look at?