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Suggest Treatment For Chest Pain And Heart Murmur
I get chest pains/discomfort also one point my chest went numb so did my arm . Ive went for a ECG and chest xray and they can't figure out what's wrong they've also checked to see if I have any heart murmurs and didn't find anything. At could it be? I don't smoke cigarettes but I do smoke marijuana occasionally and went smoke weed it seems to intensify but I do get these chest pains even when I'm sober so I barely smoke anymore cause I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack or something's wrong. I never used to get these pains ever and I used to smoke a lot of weed without any problems. I'm scared and have pretty much quit smoking to see if it still persists and it does so I don't know what it could be. I'm 18 year old female if that helps. I'm wondering if it could be my lungs or my chest or maybe just my back and shoulder pain making my chest hurt cause my back and shoulder hurt when my chest does. Or I'm wondering if im just having anxiety/panic attacks I've never had them before . It started about 6 months ago and seen 3 doctors and no one can tell me what's wrong.
Wed, 27 Aug 2014
A negative stress test would make heart problems very unlikely.
And.. if the pain in the chest is made worse with cough/deep breathing, then it's somewhere connected to the lung (or chest muscles, or rib joints or diaphram). If connected with worry and anxiety chest pain can often be connected with panic attacks.
cannot say in your particular case.
I have seen ONE person (older) who had actual heart circulation problems with no heart blockages BUT with vessels that were very twitchy. And... all her other vessels were too (hands go blue/red/white in the cold; migraines) BUT while these twitchy vessels occur in ONE IN FIVE young women, the heart problems from it aren't even in one in 500. Maybe one in five thousand at most. It was found with a cardiac catheterization and even then, they had to get lucky to see it at the time it was occurring. (or it might have been cocaine......now that I think of it....)
And.. if the pain in the chest is made worse with cough/deep breathing, then it's somewhere connected to the lung (or chest muscles, or rib joints or diaphram). If connected with worry and anxiety chest pain can often be connected with panic attacks.
cannot say in your particular case.
I have seen ONE person (older) who had actual heart circulation problems with no heart blockages BUT with vessels that were very twitchy. And... all her other vessels were too (hands go blue/red/white in the cold; migraines) BUT while these twitchy vessels occur in ONE IN FIVE young women, the heart problems from it aren't even in one in 500. Maybe one in five thousand at most. It was found with a cardiac catheterization and even then, they had to get lucky to see it at the time it was occurring. (or it might have been cocaine......now that I think of it....)
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