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Went to the ER Friday with severe chest pain radiating into my jaw on the right side. I've had this pain before but I'd finally had enough of it. EKG, chest xray, abdominal ultrasound were all normal. Saturday I woke up with a severe sore throat on the right side when I swallow or breath and what feels like sore glands in the right side of my neck. Been running a low grade fever but nothing significant. Went to the doc today because the throat is not getting better. Throat looks normal. Chest sounds normal. Bloodwork is normal. The swollen gland is actually a rigid sore muscle in my neck. She said all the soft tissue on that side is tense and rigid. What the hell is happening with me? Anyone ever experienced anything like this before?
the closest i have come is the MS hug heart attack symptoms..
and it is scary .. pressure, hot/cold flashes, trembling, hard to breath, weak, yeah been to ER twice with IT ...
and a nerve thing at neck that makes it feel like my wind pipe is shutting down..
scary stuff!
and as much as we do not want something to be wrong
we want to know what is causing this!!
i have no answers i just wanted to support you
~hugs~
"look" like anything is wrong... my own sister was the first to
use one of my fears against me "she uses MS to get her way
and for attention" it broke my heart...
you should never be yelled at ... fear is reason enough to seek
help even when the "professionals" cant find the why of it ..
in normal range is "i dont know why"..
~hugs~
breath easy hon
at first it was off & on but after awhile it was all of the time I went to a pain doc & he used freezing & injected it right into the the cluster the freezing it's self wares in a few hrs but it took the pain away for about 5 weeks.
another thing that comes to mind is GI problems
GERD
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Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Classification and external resources
Gastroesophageal reflux barium X-ray.jpg
X-ray showing radiocontrast agent injected into the stomach entering the esophagus due to severe reflux
ICD-10 K21
ICD-9 530.81
OMIM 109350
DiseasesDB 23596
MedlinePlus 000265
eMedicine med/857 ped/1177 radio/300
MeSH D005764
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), gastric reflux disease, or acid reflux disease is a chronic symptom of mucosal damage caused by stomach acid coming up from the stomach into the esophagus.[1]
GERD is usually caused by changes in the barrier between the stomach and the esophagus, including abnormal relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter, which normally holds the top of the stomach closed, impaired expulsion of gastric reflux from the esophagus, or a hiatal hernia. These changes may be permanent or temporary
part of this is spasms in the esophagus.
They are very painful.
Now I also get angina & I can not tell them apart except the spasm causes me pain when I swallow (more chest pain)
here is the confusing part both are treated with nitro.
My hubby had a sore throat & painful swallowing. They could find nothing wrong. When he lost his voice they sent him to an ENT doc. He did a scope right there in the office his voice box was burnt.
the dxed him with GERD now he never had heart burn at all
We were both treated with the drugs to control acid & are fine now.
Hugs you are in my thoughts
I hope they find the cause