Have had the same exact chest pain on the both sides since.
I swear it feels like what I would think was a heart attack but I guess not...I can't imagine WHAT a heart attack must feel like then.
He also gave me some muscle relaxers. But I've found that now I can go to the health food store and get a bottle of Hops. I put it in tea or warm water and drink that 3-4 times a day and this acts as a natural muscle relaxer. But I end up doing this for a week or so in combination with the exercise in order for this to go away.
I posted a description of exercises a few months ago but I can't seem to find it right, now. I have a nasty cold and can't concentrate.
I tend to try and take a hot bath too, and sometimes this helps.
All our symptoms are just so scary. And then the doctors say we are just anxious. Well, DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Personally, I think our symptoms cause us to be anxious at times - it's not anxiety causing the symptoms. There's a difference!
Yet most doctors are too ignorant and self-righteous and arrogant to realize that.
Is this a common occurance or was yesterday your first experience with this?
Did you just start any new medications?
If you have, then you may be having an allergic reaction to the med.
Hope this resolves ASAP!
Get better soon!
We are all rooting for you!
DMC
do know though, that chest pain and shortness of breath can be signs of a coifnection known as babesia..have you spoken to your llmd about this? many times you will not test positive for it, as the tests are very unreliable but these are symtoms ...someitimes you'll have these alone, someitmes you'll have dizziness, or lightheadednes, sometimes nausea, or sweats...severe headaches, either the type that feel like they'll blow the top off your head or the type that are shooting stabbing pains that come adn go....
these can all be signs of babs...check with your llmd . i had symtoms but never tested psotive..still got tretment and got better , as did both my kids...negative, had symtoms and dr. jones treated them both, adn now they're much better.
just a heads up..hope you feel better.
Lisa
At last, someone knows what I am going through. If your daughter gets to the point where she can't breath at all, by all means, take her to the ER. If she can breath but is just having problems taking breaths like you say, if this happens to be during the day time, consult doctor jones, if at night, monitor it . The reason I say this is because last night at the ER, the docs were saying that I was getting 100% oxygen and therefore wasn't "REALLY" having trouble breathing. Anyway, a little advice to save you 5 hours of "you have anxiety bull ****". They did give me IV adivan which help the extreme tightness in my chest and therefore my breathing. Since then, I have been taking sublingual adivan 0.5 mg ( 2 each time my chest tightens and start having trouble breathing. By all means I am not saying this is the universal dose or anything, but since your daughter and I are so similar, it may be worth a shot. You and Your daughter hang in there and good luck!
yes , these are all signs of babs..went away with treatment. between my two kids and I , and dr. H and dr. Jones, we all tested a total of eight times negative for babesia! but they still tested us because of our symtoms and we herxed like crazy on the meds and eventurally after many long months and then adding in artemesinin got better and all this went away...for my son his ashtma went away too...
dont' be fooled by the testing..dr. jones knows what he speaks of..he'll treat if he suspects it..with my daughter I sustpected it and asked tht she be put on the babs meds..she only had some minor symptoms of it,not like my son and I .she had some occasional vertigo adn bad sweating....but he agreed, put her on it, she herxed like crazy ad it really helped her...
so follow the sysmtoms, not the testing..and yes, you can be on coinfection meds at the same time as iv's..speak with dr. jones about it...he may want to pulse though..my kids were always just on orals...
lisa