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.