Constant feeling of pressure on chest, doctors say I'm fine?

Hi ,thank God I am also experiencing this same thing just for the last 3 weeks , my Dr. Checked me up and did some ECG and xray on my lungs but everythins is clear.I am also experiencing Brown discharge and irregular menstrual cycle, and my panic attacks comes and goes,sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and palpitates.

 

 

Don't worry, I know what your going threw. Last year four of my mothers horses were killed by some neighboring dogs. It was terrible and gruesome. My father works off so he wasn't there when it happened. So both me and my brother stepped up to the plate. We didn't want our mother to have to see that. We had to put one down that night. We found the other over the fence lying dead and our baby. He passed on in the barn during the night. We called our uncle to help make the graves for them. It was hard, I was 22 then and my brother a yr under me. It really did an number on me. Only one of our horses survived. It hurt my heart so bad to see her call out for them when they weren't there. I cried every night hearing them in my dreams. I felt like it was my fault then the attacks began. I would go to the doctor and they would give me something to calm down. Then this pain would come in my chest and I wouldn't be able to breath properly. It scared me, I never wanted to sleep at night only in the day. It would come and go threw out the night under my left breast around my ribs, back and chest. I went to doctor after doctor doing blood work and X-rays all that came back normal. I was tired and frustrated then, all I wanted was some relief. So again, I went to another doctor crying my eyes out asking him to please just help me. He smiled and listened to what I had to say. After it was all said and done with he gave me some pills. He told me that he thought that I had inflammation around my chest wall and that it can happen to anybody. It was normal and not to be frightened by it. So I took his advise and took the medicin. By the fourth day of taking his medicin and something to calm me down. I felt a whole lot better! Nomore wake less nights or worry, just sweet dreams. After that I stopped blaming my self for their deaths. Instead I helped my mother and brother improve our fences by making them taller and using cement at the bottom. So no dogs could dig there way in. Both my mother and I worked with the surviving horse and she is doing much better. We introduced her to a new handsome Mini stud who was more that willing to love her. We bought him and they have been together ever since. Today she is pregnite and happy! God works in mysterious ways sometimes. Some so unfair or unusual that we lose site of our way out of the tunnel. You know, I seen a movie once called the best exotic Marigold Hotel.It had a funny little saying in it. " Everything will be alright in the end. So if it is not alright, then it is not yet the end." that saying always makes me smile. I hope it does the same for you as well. Good luck on your recovery. :)

Don't worry, I know what your going threw. Last year four of my mothers horses were killed by some neighboring dogs. It was terrible and gruesome. My father works off so he wasn't there when it happened. So both me and my brother stepped up to the plate. We didn't want our mother to have to see that. We had to put one down that night. We found the other over the fence lying dead and our baby. He passed on in the barn during the night. We called our uncle to help make the graves for them. It was hard, I was 22 then and my brother a yr under me. It really did an number on me. Only one of our horses survived. It hurt my heart so bad to see her call out for them when they weren't there. I cried every night hearing them in my dreams. I felt like it was my fault then the attacks began. I would go to the doctor and they would give me something to calm down. Then this pain would come in my chest and I wouldn't be able to breath properly. It scared me, I never wanted to sleep at night only in the day. It would come and go threw out the night under my left breast around my ribs, back and chest. I went to doctor after doctor doing blood work and X-rays all that came back normal. I was tired and frustrated then, all I wanted was some relief. So again, I went to another doctor crying my eyes out asking him to please just help me. He smiled and listened to what I had to say. After it was all said and done with he gave me some pills. He told me that he thought that I had inflammation around my chest wall and that it can happen to anybody. It was normal and not to be frightened by it. So I took his advise and took the medicin. By the fourth day of taking his medicin and something to calm me down. I felt a whole lot better! Nomore wake less nights or worry, just sweet dreams. After that I stopped blaming my self for their deaths. Instead I helped my mother and brother improve our fences by making them taller and using cement at the bottom. So no dogs could dig there way in. Both my mother and I worked with the surviving horse and she is doing much better. We introduced her to a new handsome Mini stud who was more that willing to love her. We bought him and they have been together ever since. Today she is pregnite and happy! God works in mysterious ways sometimes. Some so unfair or unusual that we lose site of our way out of the tunnel. You know, I seen a movie once called the best exotic Marigold Hotel.It had a funny little saying in it. " Everything will be alright in the end. So if it is not alright, then it is not yet the end." that saying always makes me smile. I hope it does the same for you as well. I hope you start to feel better. :)

I hope you are all still following this ! SOOO Starting July 2012 I had my first panic attack...I thought I was dying called 911 and went to the hospital ..EKG and chest x ray and blood tests later they found nothing wrong with me. a while went by and a stressful trip and then kids starting school, the symptoms came back..I started getting short of breath and my heart would just race! I had a severe case of vertigo for like 5 days straight and still continue to get dizzy from time to time. I was so scared! I went to the dr I cant tell you how many times and would turn out to be healthy every time. I ended up going to a cardio dr because I swore I was having heart failure or something, They did find that I have a heart thing called Mitro Valve Prolapse with slight regurgitation but nothing serious and should not affect me, the dr actually told me that MVP is so common that unless you have severe regurge or the valve is damaged its completely harmless. She even said she has the same thing. I still cant get past the idea that I will fall over with a heart attack if I do my daily life. I wont even do laundry really because this means to carry laundry up and down 2 flights of stairs. I am afraid to do anything.  I get the pressure in my chest, I belch non stop, I shake from time to time, I get hot flashes out of no where, my heart starts to race and then I get all of these symptoms with it...I get muscle spasms and pains in random places including my shoulders, back, neck, and arms, this freaks me out so much! I am always on the edge of running to the ER in fear I am having a heart attack. I have had many ekg's since all of this and they are all normal. Everyone says Anxiety. Stress..and to relax...however it's so scary! I tried meds to calm it down however they actually caused the panic attacks to become worse! so I stopped taking them. YUCK!   I am only 29 years old have 3 kids and married to a great guy...whom I often cant even be intiment with in fear I will harm my heart...I don't know how to get past this...I am honestly thinking of getting a second opinion from another heart dr to make sure nothing is happening to my heart. I just want to be sure! I have super low blood pressure...sometimes 80/50. normally though its like 103/75 ish. it varys ....maybe that is whats causing the funky feelings in my arms and legs of being weak and the tummy pain. IDK I can calm myself down and keep telling myself that I am creating most of these symptoms ...it's nice to see that some of you have gone through these things as well. 

I've read this thread through and I'm curious as to the ages of the women who have menitoned their periods are messed up.  I am 48 and belive I'm starting menopause.  I am almost positive all these things (the facial twitches) the head and chest pressure, headaches, acne, gas, belching has something to do with hormones.  If you ladies are "at that age", have you considered that this may be the culprit?  Even more, now have high BP when my BP has been normal all my life. I agree, I don't want to take a bunch of pills and would rather go the natural route if possible. Trying to relax helps, but anxiety meds DO NOT stop the symptoms, they just make it more bearable.

This thread is a breath of fresh air (pardon the pun).

By way of background, I'm a 43 year old male, seriously unfit and carrying more weight than I should. I lost both parents to stroke at a relatively young age, they were 64 and 60, and I lost a brother to a heart attack at the age of 50 - I have a dreadful family history.

Late last year I had an episode where I thought I was having a heart attack. I had shortness of breath, chest pain (though not severe), sweating and shaking. An ambulance was called, they checked everything on the spot (including an EKG) and said everything appeared fine. The paramedic actually raised stress / anxiety as a possible cause then.

Things then settled down, however over the past 6 weeks or so, I've commenced having the same symptoms as well as a lot of tingling (pins and needles) over the whole body. I've been back to see my GP who did another EKG (again fine) as well as a series of blood tests. My Blood pressure was a little high (140/80) so he put me on medication moreso due to my family history than out of a need to treat it aggressively now. The only other anomaly was a very high ferritin (Iron) level. When symptoms persisted, I went back to the GP who ordered a heart echo test, which returned normal results and a chest xray which was also clear. The Dr also raised the prospect of stress / anxiety which I shrugged off.

Reading through this thread, there are so many posts I've finished and thought, 'wow, that's my story'. I'm still not feeling well, though I've recently started to get a lot more exercise, have started eating right, and now having found this thread, no longer have the feeling that I'm about to keel over any minute.

Just want to say thanks to everyone for sharing - the peace of mind someone like me gets purely from not thinking they're alone is invaluable.

Cheers!

I am going through the same thing at 35 and I do not think we are creating these symptoms they are real. I thought the same thing..

Contact me I'd love to talk about symptoms

The main thing I would focus on is your brown discharge in your urine this could mean you have blood in which could mean a urinary track infection just drink plenty of water and cranberry just to flush out the infection naturally.

Thank you so much I've been dealing with this ,and these post have helped:)

Your symptoms are EXACTLY like mine! Especially the weird sensation of passing out, but not being dizzy. My extremities would also feel hot and tingly. So my doc put me on 20 mg of celexa 2.5 weeks ago. First week I had the usual side effects of being fatigued, dry mouth, nausea, loss of app, and hot flashes. Nothing I couldn't push through. So those went away by day #7. On day #10 I was feeling SO much better mentally. I've had some recent life struggles and have been depressed for some time. Finally, I'm starting to feel human and happy. Then I started having tightness in my mid sternum and leading over to just above my right breast. Never pain...it's just there. I don't feel anxious or like my heart is racing, but last night I started having some palpitations. So...here I am on day 13 feeling better mentally, but kinda feeling kind of crummy physically. Anyone have any idea? I go in for a holster monitor next week. I'll wear it for 48 hrs. EKG and chest xray came out perfect. No family history of any heart ailments and otherwise I'm a healthy 36 yr old female.

How old are you? Sounds like Peri-menopause symptoms.

I have the same exact symptoms

dealing with pretty similar symptoms.. wondering if you ever found out what was wrong?

I too have recently started having the same experience. Constant agitation in my chest. I've had 3 "panic attacks" recently, but I'm no more stressed than usual. I can take meds to calm my nerves and it works for a while, but I wake up in the middle of the night with the feeling in my chest again. I've got all the tests done as well and everything has shown as normal. I just want this constant feeling to go away.