I sometimes experience a dull, aching pain on my left arm, shoulder and breast before starting my period. Could this be a PMS symptom? It doesn't happen every month - sometimes a few years will go by before I have an episode, and sometimes I'll have two to three episodes in different months throughout the year, but not consecutively. A couple of years ago I had an episode where besides the pain, there was tingling up and down my left arm. With a family history of heart problems, high blood pressure and high cholesterol (myself included), I decided to go to the emergency room to make sure I wasn't having a heart attack.The diagnosis was not a heart attack, but rather anxiety in which I was given a prescription for Xanax.
* I am 44 years old, and have had a history of high blood pressure and high cholesterol which seems to fluctuate. Currently they are at normal levels without the aid of medication which I have had to use on and off previously to help keep them at normal levels.
Could this be a symptom of PMS? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.