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Originally posted by sairose
Okay, I'm posting this on here because I feel like no one will listen to me or take me seriously. Not my family, friends, not even my doctor.
Do you ever have some kind of gut feeling about something that won't go away??
Well..
See about a year and a half ago I started having severe chest pains. I wore a holter monitor(sp?) for a day and it turned up normal. I went to the ER once, but the pains had stopped by the time I got there and the EKG showed up normal. So finally, my doctor diagnosed me with chostocondritis. It's where, without warning, the muscles/cartiledge around your rib cage inflames and causes crushing pain.
However, everywhere I've researched, it says chostocondritis goes away! Mine hasn't. I still get the pains.
So see, from the very beginning I had this feeling it was heart-related. But no one will take me seriously. I guess my point in posting this is hoping someone on here has some kind of heart problem, or at least knowledge about it, and can help me out. If nothing else, some reassurance I guess. It's just worrysome.
Advice?
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As the mother of a 14 yo son who had to have heart surgery as a child, I highly recommend that you contact a cardiologist. It may be nothing, but a cardiologist is trained to read the EKG, and listen to you. Unfortunately, there are some heart problems that a pediatrician, GP or family practice doc don't see enough so that it is very easy for them to mis-diagnose. If the cardiologist does not find a problem, as for a referral to another doctor in another speciality that may be able to find the problem.
Good luck
DaffyKD