Heartburn ulcer heart attack
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I have had heartburn for as long as I can remember (over5+ years) and took a lot of Ibuprofen and Aspirin for a heart attack scare a few weeks ago. I stopped taking them and currently only take tums when needed. I am currently on an anxiety medication to help calm me down. I feel fatigue most of the time. I have had no blood in my stool (no tarry stools) and have not vomitted blood or anything. I do, however, feel nauseous sometimes.
After my first child I began to have extreme chest pain. It felt like a heart attack, faintness, difficulty breathing, it was excruciating. At the time they lasted about 1 1/2 hr, but they were only a couple times a year for about 5 years or so. Over time they began to become more frequent and they would last for periods more along the lines of 12 hours or so, a couple months a year, a couple days a month, and now every time I swallow any type of food or any drink besides water.
After rulling out a blood clot or heart attack, they diagnosed it as esophageal spasms and prescribed me a low dose of Xanex to relax the muscle when an attack occurs. The next time it happened, the Xanex helped very quickly. My spasms came in waves with a few minutes rest between the attacks. I would scream and scrunch up grabbing my chest trying to breath. The attacks I had after that day were not as serious. Either that or I cut off a full blown attack with the Xanex.
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I have been living with heartburn for a long time now an have seen a doctor about it Im going back to doctor again an hoping to have the scope put down to find out what it is, could it be a ulcer? or something worse thats coursing this for me...
It could be. I was talking to one of my friends who is only 15. He describes that he gets the exact same thing on occasion. We seem to agree that when we breathe in it hurts so we have to breathe in slightly and breathe out more until the sharp pain subsides, which is usually after about a minute. Honestly, I'm pretty convinced now that it's heartburn since my friend described that he gets it too.
Hmm I did a pcv yesterday because of the black stool and it came back as 35% for a 20 year old female I think it's OK. The baking soda thing scares me, and I read a lot about nexium it's certainly out of line.
Hi Cass167,
sorry you are having this problem. Since the over the counter meds are not working you should see a doctor. They may need to do an Upper GI to make sure you don't have an ulcer. Also, The chest pain and back pain needs to be checked too. I don't want you to put off going to the doctor but it does take a month or two for Zantac or Prilosec to heal an ulcer or you may reflux even if you don't feel it. Please get this checked out.
In January of this year (2008) I was having heartburn so bad it made me sick with feeling of muscle cramps on the right side of my chest. My doctor prescribed a 2 week course of Nexium. The heartburn went away for a few days after the 2 weekes but returned. Maalox used to help but after a few days of constant heartburn the doc told me to buy Prilosec which worked well.
6 weeks ago I started waking up in the night with what I can only describe as heart burn - severe pain in my chest. I had heartburn during pregnancy and this pain feels nothing like this. Its just an intense pain in my chest it varies from the middle to all over the chest to just one sided, it feels like a cramping or crushing feeling. It starts before I eat and gets worse after wards. I also have pain on and off just under my right rib cage, also lately the smelliest light tan/yellow stools.
Did the doctor check you to make sure your heart is okay, as in women, a problem with your heart can potentially give the feeling like heartburn?
Did the dr. check for h. pylori, the bacteria known to cause ulcer formation?
Have they done an upper GI scope on you to try to properly diagnose your condition and not just a CT scan?
Not a doctor, but since everything you are eating is giving you heartburn, I think there is a fair possibility you have gastritis going on.
A heart attack is an event that destroys heart muscle due to lack of blood/oxygen supply to heart cells. The lack of oxygen causes cell necrosis, but sometimes when treated appropriately within 72 hours the cells may be revived (heart cells were dormant).
A heart attack can be without symptoms, or have symptoms chest pain, etc. About 5 years ago my first symptoms of having had a "silent" heart attack were symptoms of congested heart failure.
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