Hi,
i have been in pain for the past 5 years. I am 25 yrs old and have left arm pain since I was 20. My wrist and hand goes numb and I get jabbing pains in my shoulder and upper arm. I managed to ignore this until a yr ago when after an especially bad episode I developed palpitaions, not a racing heartbeat but more of a sudden 5 beat gallop and then back to normal. After this I recieved an ecg from my doctor. He also ordered a cholesterol test which was ok at 5.2. (about 200 in us) but my hdl was quite low. I have since lowered it further to about 3.2 (140 us) and my hdl is now 1.7.

My symptoms have worsened considerably though. I have no family history and no risk factors other than I used to be overweight and smoke alot both of which I have since dealt with. After making all these changes I feel terrible. Now what was once just arm pain is chest pressure, dizziness, breathlessness and an electrical feeling in my chest and on some days intense exaustion. I have terrible circulation in my whole body and feel extremely ill, I go blue in the cold as the small veins in hands and feet go into spasm.. Problem is a have now had alot of further tests such as holter monitor, event recorder, stress test (without imaging), echo and many evaluations. My pain which used to be triggered by smoking is now triggered by walking from one room to another and starts when I firt get out of bed and is on and off all day until evening when it seems to improve.

When my heart has enough blood I can feel warmth pumping through it but it can all of a sudden be cut off. I am also able to have the odd completely normal day on which I can climb hills and exersise very hard with no symptom. It makes no sense and I am now 20 wks pregnant and in hell as I feel so ill all the time. It makes no sense that I have cad but what else could this be?

Can anyone help me?