I am a 29 year old male, 5’9”, 200lbs. For the past 2 months I have had constant headaches. I went to a neurologist and he performed MRI and MRA of the head and both come back negative. Several weeks later I developed chest pain on the outer left side of my chest near my collarbone. The chest pain becomes constant for several days and can get very uncomfortable. I have been to a cardiologist and over the last four weeks I have had numerous ECG’s, worn a 30 day event monitor, echocardiogram, nuclear stress test, ultrasound of carotid arteries, CT scan of chest and chest X-rays. Blood tested several times and even venous and arterial ultrasounds of both legs due to throbbing leg pain in inner left thigh. All tests have come back normal. No family history of heart disease.


All of this began at the beginning of November 2007. Other symptoms I have been getting are what feel like hard heart beats that feel harder than normal but not any faster than normal when pulse is checked. At times I feel like the inside of my chest is vibrating. I have even had muscle twitches in my arms, back and legs. At times I feel somewhat lightheaded due to the headaches and become fatigued. These problems have given me some anxiety since the doctors can not find anything.

Over the last two weeks I have noticed that I have a lot more gas than usual especially after meals and sometimes get a burning in the back of my throat along with a tightness in my throat with a sense of feeling difficult to swallow. I will be seeing a GI doctor in a couple of days.

I was diagnosed with a herniated disks in my c3-c4, t7-t8 and t-8-t9 in December 2006.

Can the herniated discs be contributing to my symptoms?

Any other suggestions or input would be great since this has been going on for nearly 10 weeks.

Thanks.