past three years. It's not in one particular place, I have it mostly on the left side, and the middle, and sometimes radiates to the right side. Everytime I go to the doctor they say everythings fine which includes: the heart, lungs, breathing, etc. I always have trouble breathing when the chest pain occurs. The pain has gradually gotten worse, both in the amount of occurences, and the intensity on a scale of 1 to 10 ten being the most severe I would rate the pain as an 8 or 9. When I was around 13 or 14 years old a speacialst had sent me to a pediatric cardiologist to see if I could take some medicine. While there I had an EKG done, and the results said that one side of the heart is slower than the other and I think that's my right side, and that a normal heartbeat beats in the following order chamber 1, 2, 3, and 4. Finally, in August of 2006 when I was 17 years old I had experienced all the signs of a heart attack my dad had said that I was having one, it didn't seem like it. Help.
2007-11-15 10:09:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Don't ask us!!!! You need a doctors answer or even more than one doctor. I would keep after them until I had a satisfactory answer.
2007-11-15 10:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you have been having these problems and are not getting it solved by numerous trips to local doctors, you might want to entertain the idea to see highly specialized doctors such as Mayo Clinic folks-- or similar. If you are being told that it is a structural problem of the heart itself and it is causing you this much pain, one would tend to think that surgical intervention would be necessary. Go see a brilliant cardiologist-- Don't take no for an answer.
Best of luck.
2007-11-15 18:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by modest m 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The vast majority of teens with chest pain do not suffer from heart disease. However, it occurs frequently enough that a more thorough evaluation is warranted. Is your chest pain at rest or with exercise? My thought is that you should re-visit the cardiologist. Ask if you should get a stress test or electrophysiological studies. Was an echocardiogram part of your initial workup?
Assuming your cardiac evaluation is normal, then there is a host of other causes which your pediatrician or family doctor should pursue.
2007-11-15 18:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by greydoc6 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It sounds like you have had many medical opinions and none of them suggest that you are having chest pains due to heart disease. Your description of the pain is not suggestive of cardiac origin.
I have no idea what your pediatric cardiologist meant when he said that one side of the heart is slower than the other - it just doesn't make sense.
I suspect you are overly anxious about your health. You are 18 years old. Try to focus on other things.
Good luck.
2007-11-15 18:22:14 · answer #4 · answered by Knick A 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋