Having chest pain...they say it's not my heart

I had your symptoms for years, not heart but it turned out to be esophageal spasms and cardio esophageal reflex. The spasms are the worst that your doc should prescribe a remedy. In my case it was peppermint for mild ones and .4 Nitrostat for the severe ones. Good Luck Craig

Hello

I have been having chest pains since last Nov had EKG and chest x-ray and blood tests cannot find what is wrong so doctor put me on Lamsoprazole 5 weeks ago no change though, doctor said I had gastritis? but the pain worse when I lay down more so on my sides in the middle of chest, and the worry I am sure is making the symptoms worse, hope you find an answer soon as I know how horrible it all is

Good Afternoon,

If you feel you may have gastritis please follow up with your Dr. as  tests to determine whether the bacterium H. pylori is present in your body would be helpful and can easily be treated with medication.

Also gallbladder disease can cause chest pain as well as other medical conditions.  Do not hesitate to see another GI physician if you don't feel better as waiting for 2 months when you symptomatic does feel like a long time.

Kindly,

Kitt

 

 

Bear 22 has a good answer. You can google cardioesophageal reflex, aka linked angina. Mine is triggered by certain foods like gelatin, maple syrup, pork, corn starch, plus wine, some meds. After keeping a food journal, I found the connection between by googling my foods with the term food allergy - it was sulfites!

My GI doc and my cardiologist hadn't heard of it, so they didn't believe me, but my allergist has seen it many times. I can count on having a problem if I eat processed foods, deli and several brands of fast foods, and anything at chain Italian restaurants.

Hi floinnewyork,

I am currently trying to figure out what is causing my chest pains as well. I have been suffering from them for about a year now. I am currently seeing my second GI doc, since the first didn't help me much. I saw him today in fact. He initially put me on 2 nexium a day, and moved me up to 3 a day, today. He was hoping the 2 a day would help with the pain, if in fact the pain is being caused by acid. My next step is to do the acid probe test, to find out how much acid if any is in my eosphagus. Once that is determined, then I think we will know a little more of what is going on. The chest pain is pretty much constant with me, daily, some days worse, some days not so bad, but always there. I have also been reading up on some other symptoms I have that fit with my GERD. I also have Barrets. I would suggest an upper GI once the heart and lungs, and possibly the gall bladder have all been ruled out. Might give you a little more insight to what you have going on. But my GI doc did say one thing today, only 4 things can cause chest pains, heart, lungs, GI, and lower back issues. So rule them out one at a time.

Hi Alcie,

Yes I have been through all the riggers of testings. Heart, Upper GI, chest xrays, gall bladder tests. Upper GI scope, showed Barrett's and Gastritis. Everything esle was normal. The chest pain is pretty constant, almost every day, all day, it's just the severity that varies. Sometimes it's worse than others. Doesn't matter what I eat, or when I eat. I wake up in the morning, it's there, I eat, it's there. So the next step this Doc wants to take is check my PH in my esophagus. To find out if it's the culprit. If not, he said probably not GI related. But the more I read, the more it makes sense that it probably is the acid, too many commom factors and symptoms that many others have just all combined.