Hospitalized for days with no answers?!

[Pink9008]

I'm a 25yr old Female, I've been experiencing moderate to severe chest pain for 3wks.
The pain can last for 5min-5hrs, I was referred to a Cardiologist where I had an EKG feeling perfectly fine and was rushed to the hospital. It was reading inverted T waves on V2. I was assured it was a false positive fo a heart attack, and was observed over night pending a stress test in the morning.  Upon being admitted into the hospital I read another "false positive" on their EKG.

At my stress test, I some how managed to pass yet also fail. They wants me to run on the tredmill til I was at 100% (195) I only made it to 93% then I literally collapsed. Some where around 86% the EKG was reading again a supposed false positive heart attack, I was sobbing but I kept running cause they told me too. I was kept another night on observation and was given a Heart Catherzation this morning, where I was told my heart was perfect.

My blood pressure has been consistent threw all of these test, (100/50 - 110/58) resting heart rate low 40's.
I'm not trying to say the doctors are wrong, I'm no doctor... But what else cause cause me to read 3 false positives?
What alternative is there to heart problems that could cause crippling chest pain, that can fool multiple EKG machines? What should my next step be?

[achillea]

Can you describe the chest pain more fully, like where exactly you feel it in your chest, the circumstances when you feel it (more likely at rest or when you're running, for example), anything you can do to make it feel better--or worse?  Is it a stabbing pain, or is it more like a dull ache?

How much chest pain did you have while doing the treadmill test?  If the pain had been totally disabling, you would *not* have been able to keep running after being ordered to do so.  The test is designed to test your maximum physical limits while watching for warning signs.  If something dangerous had been seen on your readout, the test would have been stopped at once, for medical, ethical, and legal reasons.

BTW, collapsing at the end of this test is *normal*--sometimes they have a big guy or two to physically catch patients who are maxed out at that point.

About the false positives, I think you need to schedule a real appointment with your cardiologists to discuss *exactly* how this term is being used and what it means in your particular case.   As it stands, it's too vague to make sense of.