No, no, no, it's not a heart attack.

[DrPizza]

chest was bothering me... I was pretty certain it was my stomach. It got progressively worse throughout the day and in the middle of watching the high school football game, off to the ER I was dragged. Ughhh... 30 seconds after arriving, they were sticking needles into me, shaving my chest, hooking me up for an EKG, running chest x-rays, blood tests, etc.

The results? I'm the model of perfect health, except for my stomach.

 

[bernse]

Put you on prevacid?

 

[Engineer]

Gallbladder trouble can make your chest feel like hell (center chest). Could cause severe heartburn also.

 

[DrPizza]

Yeah, I think it's prevacid. I got to enjoy a GI cocktail while I was there... Some sort of maalox or something with viscous novacaine (or some sort of -caine), and something to stop the GI juices for a while (belladonna?)

 

[HappyPuppy]

I had something similar happen many years back. My neck hurt, my left arm was numb and it was 2 am in the morning. I hauled myself the the ER and after several hours of testing they found my heart was fine but I had broken my neck and had a compressed disc in my neck.

Whew! What a relief.

 

[everman]

Hey at least they didn't wax your chest.

 

[Pliablemoose]

LOL, don't feel bad, I know physicians that have done the exact same thing when they developed reflux.

the top sphincter of your stomach is a little loose to begin with, I think it's an evolutionary thing so we could puke up poison/rancid stuff and survive, now we just live long enough so it loosens up as we age & you develop reflux.

It's important to treat it so you don't develop strictures (scar tissue bands) in your esophagus when you're really old & food starts hanging up on scar tissue when you swallow. Then you have to go to the hospital & have a GI doctor punch the food, usually meat on through into your stomach.

 

[MikeMike]

so question, is it just my stomach then when i have random chest pains where i wince in pain, and have to stop whatever im doing and take many many deep breathes before it goes away?

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
so question, is it just my stomach then when i have random chest pains where i wince in pain, and have to stop whatever im doing and take many many deep breathes before it goes away?

god i hope it's something other than heart issues, i think everyone has this occassionally

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
I had something similar happen many years back. My neck hurt, my left arm was numb and it was 2 am in the morning. I hauled myself the the ER and after several hours of testing they found my heart was fine but I had broken my neck and had a compressed disc in my neck.

Whew! What a relief.

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