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Q: Chest pains and palpitations
asked by: thaduck1 on June 22nd, 2008
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Hi

i am a 20yr old male, 6ft 1 16 stone never smoked, i am not a stressed person i work in front of a computer 8 hours a day which is a fairly easy job

For 6 weeks now i have been having sometimes severe chest pains. this is mainly on the left side of my chest but can sometimes move to the centre or the right side. it is like a sharp shooting pain or can rarely be a crushing type pressure feeling. this does not happen with any specific move it can happen when i am just sitting down or excercising it does not matter.

I also have had a few palputations, in which my heart seems to speed up considerably and thump harder than ususal, this is not painfull just extremely scary and disstressing, this is again not brought on by anything specific but leaves me with the feeling that i am going to die

I have been spent two nights in hospital (two seperate occasions, the first was 2 weeks in the second was five weeks in) the both times they did an ekg, blood tests, xray, blood prussure and pulse and all came back perfectly normal, but i recieved no answers to why this was happening to me, the only answer i really got was that i may have a chest infection in which they prescribed me antibiotics that have not seemed to ease the symptoms

i am scheduled for a treadmill test and a 24 hr monitor on wednesday

i just have a few questions

Am i to young to have an heart attack???

this has been going on for just iver 6 weeks, if it was life threatining wouldn something have happened to me by now??

Could a chest infection last this long, and cause these symptoms

Thanks

Ryan
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Dr. Nikola
replied on June 24th, 2008
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Basically heart attack is more common for older men who have risk factors like smoking, hypertension, diabetes, high blood fats, obesity etc.
So, we may say that you are too young for heart attack. Do you have any of the risk factors I mentioned above?
Chest infection can cause heart rate changes but I didn't see any proof that you have chest infection.
I assume that you might have panic disorder but let us wait for the results from the stress test and holter monitoring, first.
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thaduck1
replied on June 26th, 2008
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HI Doc

No i dont smoke have diabetes or hypertension

i had my stress test done yesterday, also a 24hr monitor, are these test accurate???

if i had a panic disorder would these symptoms be constant or would i just have attacks throughout the day??

Thanks

Ryan
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Dr. Nikola
replied on June 26th, 2008
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Stress test is used to indirectly examine the coronary circulation and to reveal if there is some disorder in heart muscle blood supply. Chest pain is usually indication for performing stress-test.
24 "holter"-monitoring is used to discover and diagnose any heart arrhythmias that happen suddenly and don't last long enough to be revealed during the usual ECG-test. Palpitations are indication for 24 hours "holter"-monitoring.
Panic disorder is a neurotic disorder where sudden undefined fear (anxiety) is manifested with dramatic neuro-vegetative symptoms (tachycardia, sweating...) and person usually things that has heart attack or stroke.
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Monicca
replied on March 3rd, 2009
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I have high cholesterol and im only 20yrs and so these past few days ive been having frequent palpitations and chest pain ive been on the monitor and iv had ekg and everything but nothing seems to be wrong, Every time i have palpitations they come very strong and very fast , sometimes i feel like i could be having a heart attack! & i dont know what to do?
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