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What Causes Pressure In The Chest For A 40 Year Old Female?
Hello I am a 40 yr old female and have been experiencing constant pressure in my chest, I have shortness of breath and wake up at night with sweaty hands and my whole body is numb.I ve had a stress test done and it came back normal, went to a lung specialist and that also came back normal. About a week ago I had a weird episode where I just couldn t catch my breath so I called an ambulance. At the hospital my blood pressure was 187/103 I they ran a bunch of yest on me said I didn t have a heart attack and gave me nitroglycerin to bring my blood pressure down.This constant feeling of not being able to catch my breath and feeling like some one is sitting on my chest is affecting my life horribly. It seems as if the doctors have just tan out of ideas.
Mon, 1 Aug 2016
The symptoms you have might be bcz of simple anxiety disorder or more serious pulmonary embolism or heart attack, as you have normal stress test so it is less likely that your symptoms is bcz of heart disease. If you have sedantry life style, taking OCPs, OR RISK OF developing clots in your leg than you should concerned your doctor. But as you were having high blood pressure at the time of shortness of breath and chest pain, so i will recommend to closely monitor your symptoms, avoid OCPs, high salt diet, and if you have any kind of anxiety disorder than concern your psycologist. Thank you
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