What Causes Elevated T-wave Along With Numb Left Arm And Nausea?
I forgot to mention, when I woke up yesterday, there was pretty noticeable pain in the midback and chest which prompted the rotational back exercise. There was no super obvious 'back pain/chest pain' tonight like last night (The midback is almost always sore to touch), but the feeling of nausea and weird energy and not going to sleep despite feeling sleepy earlier made me want to check my EKG again which didn't look normal at all (ST elevated, R depressed, just like in the picture). It's always been 'normal' every time I've checked in the past.
I would explain as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
I carefully passed through your question and would explain that your symptoms are not typical of any cardiac disorder, including myocardial ischemia.
Your symptoms seem to be related to anxiety or musculo-skeletal pain.
I reviewed your reports and would explain that these are non specific ECG changes.
I would like to review a full ECG report in order to be able to give a more professional opinion.
I would not recommend going to the ER, as your symptoms are not indicative of any serious disorder.
Just relax and take a deep breath!
I would recommend consulting with your GP for a careful physical exam and a routine check up:
- a resting ECG (if you have not performed a standard one)
- a chest X ray study
- a cervico-thoracic column X ray study
- some other blood lab tests (complete blood count, PCR, sedimentation rate for inflammation), to investigate for other possible causes of chest pain.
Meanwhile, I would recommend trying ibuprofen for the pain. If your symptoms are partially relieved by this drug, it would be indicative of musculo-skeletal pain.
Hope you will find this answer helpful!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
I would explain as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello again!
I understand your concern and would explain that your symptoms are not related to any cardiac disorder, including any possible conduction disorders.
All your symptoms are suggestive for musculo-skeletal pain or a radicular problem.
The fact that touching the muscles of this region triggers the pain, indicates that this is just muscular inflammation. The heart and heart receptors are too deep and can not be triggered by touching.
From the other side, it is impossible for a spinal issue to cause cardiac conduction block.
You should understand that the information on the Internet is very wide and non specific based on individual features. There are several changes in the ECG, which could be related to different causes (including the wrong position of electrodes, or movement of the electrodes during respiration, etc.).
But the findings on ECG should be persistent on different ECG and in the same leading in order to gain significance. From the other hand they should be correlated to the clinical symptomatology in order to come into conclusions.
I would recommend taking ibuprofen and acetaminophen for the pain. It will help.
Hope you will find this answer helpful!
Regards,
Dr. Iliri