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by Slinky » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:21 pm
First off, and out of order, DebJax, those vessel spasms around the heart or to the heart? My neighbor was Dx'd w/them at Mayo Clinic in MN. I forget the name he gave for it, but one of the things he suggested to her was an OTC health food store product, l'arguinine (sp?), he started her out gradually and has her up to something like 12 a day? As I remember it there are only like two tests that can Dx these spasms and its only recently being recognized and Dx'd.
JeffH, I've had two echocardiograms and neither one was done w/my laying on my left side? How the devil do you rate the special treatment??
And now, Babette: I get chest pains on occasion when laying on one or sometimes even both sides. The only way I can describe it is that it feels like my heart is hanging by some muscles and those muscles are tearing or ripping. I've had regular stress tests, nuclear stress tests, echocardiograms, even a stress MUGA ... everything except a Holter monitor and a heart cath, and only MVP (mitral valve prolapse - not even mitral valve regurgitation) and that while the tests will show it, they can't HEAR unless I am laying down, and usually all they can hear is a systolic click rather than a true murmur. Go figure. MVP runs in my dad's family and he was the youngest to die at 79. We've finally come to the conclusion it has to be chest wall muscle.
The h*ll of it is for me, as I told my family doctor one time he was chewing me out for not going to ER, if I ran to ER each time I experienced the various symptoms of heart attack in women I might as well rent a room in Chest Pain Center at the hospital!!! We've gotta be real here in my case. Its been going on since that whiplash in '94. I was looking right when rear-ended and had a lot of trouble w/left chest pain including arm and shoulder since, much more frequently the first couple of years. It took a chiropractor and muscle stretches learned in Physical Therapy 2 1/2 years to get them down to a low roar and intermittent time spans of frequency until now I seldom get them unless I overuse my arms.
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Slinky on Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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