Anyone know what would cause sudden chest pain with blurred vision and severe weakness?

Question

I was shoppin when all of a sudden these symptoms came on my vision got so blurred i couldnt see anything by the time i got to to the parking lot,nor could i walk anymore(good thing i was near the car) my boyfriend called an ambulace because the pain was so intense that i couldn't even talk. I am preg, am a diabetic and do have an irreg. heat beat. When I got to e.r. they said they thought I was a bit dehydrated but were not certain if that was the cause. They took b/p laying down and standing while down it was fine when up it started to rise and so did my pulse and i felt very shakey and weak...i felt like i had ran a marathon....personally I dont buy the whole dehydration thing I drink water like its going out of style.....any help would be great

actually yes i did have left arm pain....and the pain felt sharp and crushing it didnt last long

i know i said i had an irregular heartbeat...i had an ablation done to try to fix it...i had what they said were like two maybe three different aarythmias going on now they say looks as if i have jaut the tachycardia going on...the only problem is that they cant ever seem to catch it in the docs office....i had the same prob the first time around before i was diagnosed...no one beliveved me...i feel that way again...they jaut cant seem to catch it on the machines

Answer 1

If your EKG was ok, it could be fibromyalgia or anxiety disorder. Not enough information to go on. Fibro can cause all sorts of symptoms, but blurry vision isn't one I've heard of.... yet. Read more on fibro here: http://www.fms-help.com/signs.htm

As far as anxiety disorder, I don't know that much about it. Again, I don't think blurry vision is among it's symptoms either.

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'nuff said?

Answer 2

When I was 7 months pregnant with my youngest son I had those same symptoms. The first thing I thought was a heart attack. I was rushed to the emergency room. They hooked me up to fetal monitors, heart monitors, pulse and blood pressure. In the end here's what happened. Everytime they would lay the bed back to where I was starting to lay down, I would have blurred vision, chest pain, trouble breathing, and weakness in my muscles. I felt like I was an experiment. They did the up down thing about 15 times showing different nurses and Dr.s what was happening. Turns out my heart was beating at over 210 beats per minute. Every time I would lay back. Its called Tachycardia. And they put me on Lopressor I believe it was called. Havent had trouble since. And have been off the meds for 3 1/2 years. You need to make an appointment with your regular Dr. It could be so many things. Even if you're ok now...you should go. Better to be safe than sorry Right? Good luck.

Answer 3

Does the warning say anything to the effect of nervousness, or dysnepa/air hunger? I don't think it is an extreme adverse reaction, but I would not take another dose until you talk with your doctor. Perhaps he/she has you on too strong a dosage, and an anxiety attack to happen when starting a new medicine and wondering how it will affect you can make it feel worse. But for any reason, panic attack or not, if you feel extreme discomfort, go to the ER. Came to check on you Sunday, as I have anxiety disorder and extremely mediphobic-trying new medicines causes me great anxiety, and I too, read the warnings, and just wait for one symptom that snowballs, and sends my anxiety up that much more. What I have done in the past, if it was past doctors hours, is called my pharmacist on a particular med, that I was having the shortness of breath on, it was a sulfa drug and was afraid of the constriction of breathing, was it the start of it now, how long that I know I passed the OK point for severe reactions. I am so glad you posted an update that you were doing better.

Answer 4

what should be done. Being pregnant is tough enough but being a diabetic on top of that? All the things they did ( hopefully they started an IV and took baseline vitals) are consistant with should be done , did they tell you what your blood glucose level was? When was the last time you ate, when did you drink last? It sounds like you could have had what they call a sycable episode , your blood pressure starts to drop you get light headed and all of a sudden out you go. When your pregnant your system is a lot more fragile than what you may think, and the hospital sounds like they did a good job. Good luck with the baby and keep eating and keep hydrated.

Answer 5

See the link below to compare symptoms and learn of medical intervention for strokes. You may have experienced a mild one...
If you haven't sought immediate medical attention, it is strongly advised that you consult with your physician or report to an Emergency Room and request a screen to determine if there may be permanent damage.

Answer 6

You already know you have heart problems. I'd have that investigated. After reading the teaser, I wondered if your left arm also hurt. That would have been a heart attack. I'm surprised the med techs didn't keep you long enough to figure out what's going on. No ER doc?

Answer 7

I think that everyone else has given some good answers as to how to deal with what your having but i think that you should take a good look at what could possibly be causing your symptoms

one word, caffiene. i think that you should significantly reduce the amount of caffiene you drink. absolutely no energy drinks, these things can have three times as much caffiene as the same amount of coffee, not to mention you can develope a dependency on them and they will destroy your teeth. I know a person who use to drink energy drinks all the time but recently was admitted to the hospital after he noticed that his heart was not beating right. his heartbeat would rise and then fall and it would continue doing that. he also experienced weakness and a slight bluriness of his vision. be careful of diet pills, some of them are just dry and compact energy drinks and will do more harm than good. almost no coffee, as everyone knows coffee contains caffiene, and can also form a dependency and destroy teeth like energy drinks but not as severely; decaf would be better than regular but it is probably better to be on the safe side and stay away from it altogether. Be careful of soda, many soda's can contain as much if not more caffiene as coffee, not to mention the high content of sugar wouldn't do you very much good either but I'll discuss that later. Limit your chocolate, chocolate also contains caffiene but not nearly as much as coffee. you can still have it but it would be best if it was only occasional and it small quantities.

Be very careful of what you drink, especially soda. As i said before many soda's contain caffiene; but you need to be careful of even the caffiene free one's. Many of the popular soda's contain so much sugar that it will actually dehydrate you.

The sugar free "diet" soda's can sometimes be worse than regular because of the chemical sweeteners used instead of sugar. I have heard several testimonials of people who's bodies have been thrown out of whack because they switched from regular to diet. One of which was when the diet soda's first came out a friend of mine and some of her coworkers (most female) started drinking diet because they liked the taste and after a while their woman's cycle was being weird until they stopped drinking diet and it went back to normal. upon further research i found that aspartame and high fructose corn syrup (artificial sweeteners) can cause a number of disorders including diabetes, reduced metabolism (which can result in weight gain for many, funny because its in so many foods that are supposed to help reduce weight), a whole host of adolescent hyperactive disorders, and may increase the risk of cancer. basically these chemicals are not natural and our bodies don't know how to deal with them.

you may also want to research chelation therapies as they've been know to help with heart and other circulatory disease's

please take these suggestions into consideration and i think your condition will improve.

thanks for reading my response,

NathaN210

Answer 8

You have what the call fibillation I'm sure, have the same thing. didn't they check your pulse? Gen. it's running to fast. This causes low oxg. in your system that leads to not being able see,walk and chest pain. Go back right away.

Answer 9

Create a disease, then create a drug to sell.......Fibromyalgia.

Answer 10

stroke/heart attack, all kinds of things...follow your doctor's advice on that one...get a second opinion, too