Nobody knows what's happening to me!!!

[Farik]

Hello, i'm 27 yr old male, i don't know from where to start, i don't know weather it's heart or nerve system or something else
basically, i can feel my pulse everywhere on my body, for years i have this, docs say everything is ok, when i eat( fried or heavy food)  and smoke i heart starts racing then i get chest pain,shortness of breath, my hands and feet start getting wet, sometimes last 10-15 mins, sometimes pain last longer, when i swim or run is the same chest pain,
second factor is that maybe nerve system, when i think for moment about dying or think that i have heart disease or something it starts, chest pain, shortness of breath, sharp pain in my heart too, pain in my shoulder and arm,
i'm too senseble especially my abdomen if my girlfriend touches softly my heart races for nothing, when i do push ups my stomach and my body stretches for 5 to 10 min, it triggers something on my heart area and get chest pain, it's like heart clotted, it cannot take no more pressure,
could it be Angina pain? cardiac neurosis? or anything? Can anybody help me!!!!

[Tanarya]

How old were you at the time?

[LarrytheAstronaute]

interesting. I miss the days where i ran for an hour on the treadmill and took my HR to 165 and not even care or be aware of what a heart is or what it does. Erijon there are 2 symptoms that scare me, one is when i climb stairs and i get chest pains  and tightness  the other is when i sit up from sitting in long duration and i get chest pains and tightness of the chest. When i sit up my heart rate jumps to about 125-130 and i get pains. Since you say you had all my symptoms, were your symptoms so consistent with exertion and fast HR also?

[gonziiii]

I used to have chest pain and arythmia after eating, pain usually goes away if my vomit d food, i wonder if its also a coronary issue, although.stopping alcohol and quiting captopril has help me

[erijon]

Could be your doctors a right and it's reflux and anxiety, sure sounds like it. These are the same symptoms I had when I was suffering from a heart anxiety, in every detail.

[LarrytheAstronaute]

believe me if all i had was just ectopics after eating i would jump for joy. I have every classic symptom of angina yet my age and my previous tests have lead my doctors to ignore them all.

[erijon]

What you are describing is simple acid reflux. I have it and have the same symptoms to a tee. Remember, when you eat your heart rate increases to help you digest your food. It could be that you are just feeling the ectopics more after eating as your heart rate is up and will tend to feel stronger which will make any rhythm changes feel more pronounced.

Hope it helps,

Jon

[ed34]

no im 48, 34 was just the next available number for the name Ed :)
Food didn't get 'stuck' and I had no trouble swallowing. In fact, everything about eating was perfectly normal apart from the pains. I remember that if I ate anything at all, even a mouthful of soup, nothing would happen for about 10 minutes. Then suddenly I was in agony. There is a throat discomfort associated with heart problems but this is not acid. It is more like a strange tightening of the throat. It does sound more like a digestive things rather than the heart. Plus of course, anxiety which is a side effect of taking drugs.

[LarrytheAstronaute]

Ed first of all how old are you, i am thinking 34. I also get discomfort after eating, mostly skipped beats and the food gets stuck in my esophagus and i get acid coming to my throat. Was this what you also felt? My doctor tells me its gerd, i dont know i am sick and tired of living with fear. I have other symptoms which is related to my fear not just the eating thing.

[ed34]

At the risk of being told I scare people, I think it's appropriate to put in my own experiences here. In 2006 I began to get bad chest pains after eating. It didnt seem to matter how much I ate either, anything from a small sandwich to a large meal. I would sweat, find it hard to breath and feel chest pains. Each episode after eating would last around 20 minutes. I went to the hospital emergency and of course the pains had all subsided by then. All tests found nothing wrong with my heart but looking back now, wouldn't it have been great if they gave me something to eat to reproduce the symptoms at least? I was discharged as a stomach problem.
For a year I got chest discomfort when exerting myself but put up with the pains believing it was my stomach. In 2007 the episodes after eating worsened to the point where I was in absolute agony. This time in hospital they decided it was a blocked coronary artery. After a single stent to the LCX I was able to eat anything with no discomfort, it was great. I was told by the cardiologist that once my heart reached a load factor of X then MI was occuring. Eating or exerting caused factor X because oxygen demand increases for both digestion and exertion.
In 2006 in hospital, my troponin was normal, echocardiogram revealed nothing and ecg was always normal. Xrays also clear. Nothing led them to even consider a blocked artery.

[the_grayhatter]

Oh, and I also did A LOT of LSD in high school as well.

[the_grayhatter]

I can also concur that I have all of these symptoms. I even have severe pain in upper left back quite often. My fear of death is quantified by the fact that I did WAY to many drugs (cocaine, xtc, robotussin, "ccc", and many more) in high school and was hospitalized over 15 times for accidental overdose on drugs. At one point when I was in the hospital my BP was 324/268 which should have been fatal. I was diagnosed with an enlarged heart and left in the dark about what this meant for me or if there were any other problems. Anxiety runs in my family but so do heart problems and stroke. My dad and both grandads have had multiple heart attacks and they never did drugs, just smoked and drank which scares me even more. I don't do drugs any more but the problems have persisted. It gets so bad that I stay up for nights at a time which causes my heart to hurt much worse and my blood pressure to skyrocket from the lack of sleep. But the lack of sleep is caused by the anxiety/possible heart ailments anyway. My hands always sweat and I always have chills. Im only nineteen and afraid Im going to die almost everyday, and afraid if I go to sleep that I wont wake up. When I smoke a cigarette I sometimes half to sit down and just start praying because it gets so bad. Im trying to quit smoking but that makes the anxiety worse. Its like theres no escape for me. Im so scared I wont even make it to 20.

[LarrytheAstronaute]

wow, finaly someone who has all my symptoms. I have been going to doctor after doctor for a year and half because of all these symptoms. I can feel my pulse everywhere, i can see my pulse in places i shouldnt, i get chest pains when i exercise, i get chest pains after meals, i stretch and my heart starts racing, i get from from sitting position and my heart starts racing and i get chest pains, i have pvc's and basically life is based on fear. I even get chest pains THINKING about chest pains like right now. I have had many tests also...i want to live already!!!

[dustycat]

Please do not disregard panic attacks as it could be the cause of all your symptoms. Even in reading your post it is easy to see you are under tremendous pressure and stress. If the medical experts cannot find nothing wrong, you may want to consider looking into this very serious disease.

Persons experiencing repetitive, severe panic attacks may simply have panic attacks and that is all. Other persons may begin to experience a progression of bothersome or distressing panic attack "side effects". This progression commonly occurs as follows:
A few weeks or months prior to the first panic attack there are sometimes minor symptoms such as rapid heart beat.

The first major panic attack occurs. The person often seeks emergency medical evaluation at this time. The initial examination is commonly normal.
Continued panic attacks cause the person to seek further medical evaluations which may be inconclusive. Many panic attack sufferers go for months or years before receiving the proper diagnosis and by that time may have seen over a dozen physicians, psychologists and counselors. This appearance of "doctor shopping" may cause others to regard the sufferer as a hypochondriac.

Symptoms of a Panic Attack
- raging heartbeat
- difficulty breathing, feeling as though you 'can't get enough air
- terror that is almost paralyzing
- nervous,  shaking, stress
- heart palpitation, feeling of dread
- dizziness, lightheadedness or nausea
- trembling, sweating, shaking
- choking, chest pains, distress
- fear, fright, afraid, anxious
- hot flashes, or sudden chills
- tingling in fingers or toes ('pins and needles')
- fearful that you're going to go crazy or are about to die

What a panic attack feels like.
The main symptom of a Panic Anxiety Disorder is the panic attack itself. Panic Anxiety Disorder is a medical disorder characterized by severe and sudden episodes.
It is important to mention that sudden episodes of the symptoms listed above caused by another reasonable cause are not panic attacks. Two such reasonable causes would be (1) a certain medical ailment that might mimic a panic attack, or (2) a life threatening experience immediately preceding the attack. If these reasonable causes are found not be the cause of the problem then there is the possibility of a Panic Disorder.

Panic attacks reach maximum intensity within a minute or two once they begin. They diminish slowly over the next 30 minutes or the next several hours. It is common for the first attack to cause a person to go to an emergency medical facility. Subsequent attacks occur several times a month and are often as severe as the initial attack.
Panic Anxiety Disorder begins most often when people are 20-30 years old. It begins less often in teenagers or persons in their forties. It is uncommon for the disorder to appear in the elderly for the first time.

[Dalubaba]

EECP(ENHANCED EXTERNAL COUNTER PULSATION) APPEARS TO BE HARMLESS THERAPY AS IT IS NON-INVASIVE.ASK  YOUR HEALTH CARE PEOPLE.

[PikaPika88]

Any doc said anxiety?  Well, I got partial symptom like you, all the docs said were anxiety except my psychiatrist.  Did the doc run ecg, echo or x-ray for you?