the one time I went in to the ER for a weird chest thing, they told me it must be indigestion because the tests were normal, and then gave me a medication that the top of my chart says I can't have because it makes me psychotic. :o/ Of course this was at Dominican.
It certainly wasn't indigestion...it didn't hurt but was more like the wind getting knocked out of me once a minute like clockwork for a few hours. My best guess was anxiety-related muscle something.
But yeah, most docs these days appear to be idiots.
Yeah, my thing feels something like what you described. My mom hopped on the acid reflux band wagon, too. And feeling like you've been punched in the sternum every couple minutes every once in a while IS NOT a symptom of GERD. What did you do? Did it go away?
Sounds more like panic attacks than acid reflux to me.
I am sure that you already know that it is very common for anxiety and stress to cause ones heart to flip out. That is one of the very classic panic attack symptoms. Usually what people describe is their heart racing and/or chest pain. That doesn't quite sounds like what you are describing, but it is close enough to sound like if could be an anxiety response, if they tests turned up nothing wrong with your heart itself.
The doctor can probably explain the mechanisms by which this happens and what it is that your heart or chest muscles are DOING in there when you feel like you are being punched in the sternum if you ask about it.
If not, a psychiatrist might be more helpful in explaining what's going on and telling you what, if anything you should do about it.
Yeah, panic does make your heart do weird things, but they can point to an abnormal heart graph and say, "There's your problem". They didn't see anything in my graph... so... I'm really confused as to what I AM feeling, if it's not my heart.
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It certainly wasn't indigestion...it didn't hurt but was more like the wind getting knocked out of me once a minute like clockwork for a few hours. My best guess was anxiety-related muscle something.
But yeah, most docs these days appear to be idiots.
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My mom hopped on the acid reflux band wagon, too. And feeling like you've been punched in the sternum every couple minutes every once in a while IS NOT a symptom of GERD.
What did you do? Did it go away?
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I am sure that you already know that it is very common for anxiety and stress to cause ones heart to flip out. That is one of the very classic panic attack symptoms. Usually what people describe is their heart racing and/or chest pain. That doesn't quite sounds like what you are describing, but it is close enough to sound like if could be an anxiety response, if they tests turned up nothing wrong with your heart itself.
The doctor can probably explain the mechanisms by which this happens and what it is that your heart or chest muscles are DOING in there when you feel like you are being punched in the sternum if you ask about it.
If not, a psychiatrist might be more helpful in explaining what's going on and telling you what, if anything you should do about it.
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