Over the past 2 or 3 years I have noticed that I occasionally get chest and arm pains. By occasionally I mean like they appear for about 5 seconds and then disappear and then come back like 5 minutes later.
Sometimes they are really painful and sometimes not. They can sometimes be sharp pains, that can go down either arm, but usually they are just general niggles that just make me really worried that it is to do with my heart.
I am only 14 years old and not particularly overweight, and a lot of people have told me that, because of this, it is 99.9% chance not my heart. But I still get really anxious and worried.
A lot of the time I also feel nauseous and it can come on at any time, makng me feel really bad.
I also read somewhere that if you can’t get an erection or something, it is sign of heart problems. I can get an erection though.
The thing that confuses me is that, last year, these pains nearly completely disappeared. I was still wary of them coming back but they didn’t seem to, until a couple of months ago, when they came back.
I went to the Doctor about a month ago and told him about the pains. He used his stethescope, but that was it, and told me my heart sounded fine. Should he have done more? An EKG? I went back to a different doctor about a week ago and she tested my blood pressure, blood oxygen, pulse, lung capacity and BMI and she said they were all fine and that it could be costochondritis or Tietze’s Syndrome. Do these tests rule out a heart problem?
Please help. Any explanation to this would be greatly appreciated, I am really worried and anxious. I have told my parents but they don’t seem too worried; they put it down to perhaps growing pains or what the doctor said.
Again, any help is greatly appreciated. In the mean-time, can anyone suggest some ways to calm my anxiety?
Thanks.
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Chest pain related to the heart for men is usually a crushing heavy pain that can radiate down the left arm (not the right) or radiate to the jaw (very dangerous). It can be central chest pain or left sided. It is often accompanied by shortness of breath and cold clammy sweating. The pain is often brought on with exercise or exertion and relieved with rest.
Sounds like you have growing pains to me, they can be very painful @ times and are often in the limbs.
OMG I have the same thing. I am 20 years old and I have the same symptoms. I went to the doctors and they did all those tests and said I was fine.. the only difference with me is that I have used drugs before like meth and Marijuana. (I was experimenting) And I think the drugs elevated my anxiety problems, I am a very high strung person..I am actually asking the same questions on here that is why I stumbled upon your question. The pain kind of stops for a couple months with only small episodes but it comes back and stays for a while. I wish i knew how to stop it . Sometimes I get so frustrated and scared I think im gonna get a heart attack and die on the spot. Im sorry I cant help you I am on the same boat your in. im not overweight eighter. Please take my email and save it and let me know if you find any good answers for this nightmare. sergiovillafan@rocketmail.com good luck..