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Capt Bry

Welcome to HealingWell. This is a great site. I look forward to getting to know you better.

As far as your sx I am not sure what may be causing your problems.  You said you have been checked out by a cardiologist to rule out heart related problems.

My best advice would be to see your PCP and see if you need a referral to a Gastroenterologist.
 

Perhaps another member will have more info for you.

Take care and do stick with us.

Kitt

Hi bry,
We are not doctors here but we do offer moral support.Maybe it is gerd or ger related.Maybe esaphgus issues? Gall bladder? Gastritis?Follow up wit the gi.
Gøod luck
Bea

hi bry,

i have the same feelings occasionally - it is so painful to breathe, stand, swallow, anything. it's awful. when i went to the emergency room (because i didn't know if this was something to do with my heart!) they told me i was having esophageal spasms, and that there's really nothing that can be done except wait them out. good luck, i hope you feel better.

Hi Bry !

It does sound like you could have Gerd. Do you have pain in the center of your chest? Do you have pain in your stomach or is it more in your chest? I have also had to cut back on the caffiene as of late because it was causing me to have that cathc your breath thing. Do you eat meals late at night before you go to bed ? I have found that really makes me miserable to try to sleep.I also have found that losing some weight has eased my symptoms greatly. And I must ask do you bloat or have gas when these episodes occur ? I get that way sometimes and it seems that until I pass gas I can be so miserable. I am a bit lactose intolerant and if I stay away from dairy I don't feel that pain as bad. I also notice that if I eat too fast I suffer with chest pain and if i work out too hard it happens too. I wonder if you have done any activity lately that used muscles you are not used to using ??

Take care...talk to you soon

Hi Bry,
I know oakley asked do u have pain in the center of your chest. I was a gerd suffer but never ever suffered any chest pains and or heart burnin sensations. I had severe Gerd until my nissan fundo operation on May 7th. So far its been great and has improved my uality of life. I suffered from sour taste constatntly, 3 strictures of esphagus, and bakwash .I had nite time gerd which kept me up all nite long. I would have episodes during the day but very prevalent at night. I couldnt swallow my own medicine. I went to the GI. He opened my throat 3x, I had a bravo ph test which showed i had 200 episodes of gerd. Here I was tryin to trick the capsule they placed in my esphagus to test my acid. Many times I had gerd i didnt push the button on the machine.Who was I kidding? When I went for my results bam i had a score of 21 . A normal score I believe is 12 and below. My doctor suggested the surgery as I was on every medicine known to man. I lost wait cut out caffeine etc but to no avail. I also had a father who died at 50 from esphageal cancer which started with reflux and he ignored it for many years. He wud havespasms ,hard time swallowing etc and never told a soul til it was too late. MY GI who treated my father suggested the surgery for me as we had exhausted every thing possible to control my gerd. Nothing worked,However, I am happy to say I am gerd free right now and I am happy to say i can sleep and not fear the unknown. So please go to the GI let them go down do an endoscope-this wouldve saved my dads life had he been a little softer of a man. Oh and Not all people with gerd have heartburn or chest pains I am a perfect example but then again my doctor said i had severe complications to gerd- the choking and closures, the sleep deprivation etc.Oh and where do you live that you had a storm. I love in yankee land,
Take care
bea

I agree with you liily, I was just at the er two weeks ago and had extreme shortness of breath and pain

on one side of chest. I actually felt like I had the pain in my breast.

After checking my heart and lungs out they determined that I had over worked muscles in my chest wall shoveling the feet of snow we had in South Dakota this year and installing 57 new wood blinds in all my apts that I manage....it was just too much all at once.

So they diagnosed with the C thing and sent me home to rest and take pain pills...thank God I am fine now, so that is what I meant by doing something you hadn't done in my earlier post.

Worth consdiering for sure !

 

Thank you Bea, Oakley and strbrst for your collective in-put. I'm getting good stuff from you guys. Bea, I'm glad to hear you're doing so much better and I wish you continued improvement!! I live on top of a ridge in Missouri although I'm a Michigan yankee. We had a tremendous storm-front pass through the state Fri morn with exceptionally high winds that knocked down 250 yr old oak trees like they were toothpicks. Unfortunately the trees took down power lines as they fell. Best regards.
Bryon

One thing is certain, there will be no shortage of fire wood next winter. The power is back on and life in ole Missouri approaches normal once again. Best wishes,
Bryon

I'm thankful that old tree wasn't mine. My wood cutting and splitting days are behind me. I have gas logs. Forecast is another REAL bad storm to-nite with lots of nasty tornadoes. This is a spring to be remembered.
Bryon

Hi Oakley, I'd like to address the part of your post of 5/11 where you asked me if I'd done anything strenuous of late. As a matter of fact I did some landscaping that required me to wrestle 30 bags of mulch at 60 lbs each. The next day I could barely get out of bed. My lower back was destroyed. I'm not one whom goes to bed and rests for 2 or 3 days until everything feels better. If I can gain my feet and stand without falling, I'm off to the races. Now I'm wondering if I may have injured muscles in my abdomen as well as my back and that is the cause of the spasms? You're probably thinking, why doesn't this goober just go see his doctor. Well, that's a story in itself and I haven't much trust or faith in the medical community since 1983. I'll go see my doctor only when I've exhausted all efforts at healing myself. I hope you're feeling great.
Bryon

Hi Bry,

You're welcome, hopefully you were just having muscle pains, esophageal spasms can be quite painful and debilitating. Please let us know if it happens again.

Strbrst