2nd verse, slightly different than the first.....

[strivaria]

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[x_varda_x]

*hugs* I hope you feel better and that it's nothing too serious

[strivaria]

Thank you. I just got word that all my tests came back negative for heart attack. The doctors think it was probably due to dehydration. I'm feeling a lot better and will be getting out of here soon.

[mcalex22]

Take care of yourself Angie! I am glad that it wasn't a heart attack... my next guess was a collapse lung coz I once knew a girl whom it happened to and she had no idea what was happening.

It probably is stress if they can't explain it! Whenever I get chest pains and can't breathe, the doctors always tell me that it's stress!

[strivaria]

Yeah, it was probably a combo of stress and dehydration. Working close to 12 hour days (when I'm only supposed to work 8 hours) in a hot environment at a job that I'm feeling incredibly underqualified for and worries that we aren't going to make it as a company.... very stressful.

[vecturist]

{{{Hugs}}} I am glad you are ok and it was just dehydration. I wound up in the ER at the beginning of the year with a similar story and they decided it was dehydration, a reaction to the antibiotic I was on, and a little bit of costochondritis. Wound up having an echocardiogram and a stress test with a clean bill of health (they told me I don't have to worry about my heart for about 25 years).

[strivaria]

Thank you. I'm not so sure now that it was dehydration... I'm hearing other women have had the same symptoms with a gall bladder problem. Going to push for that when I see my doc in two weeks. Glad your story turned out similarly non-cardiac related. It's a scary that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

[mercury973]

Yikes. Glad you're doing better. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

[strivaria]

Thank you. I'm doing a lot better now that I've had decent food and sleep. Going to see my regular doc in two weeks and going to see if maybe it was a gall bladder thing. If it is, I want it out... that was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced and i don't want to go through it again.

[anjak_j]

I also experienced those symptoms with a gallbladder problem, so if I were you, I'd definitely push that and get the appropriate tests.

I was admitted to A&E several times before the doctors found that it was gallstones. The first doctor thought I had costochondritis, which I've had and is also very painful, and later doctors did a load of tests on my heart. I had a ultrasound which didn't show the stupid little stones that were causing all the problems - they showed up on a chest x-ray I had to check it wasn't a collapsed lung that was causing the pain and shortness of breath. And by that time, one of them wasn't in my gallbladder any more and had blocked my bile duct, meaning I had to have emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder and the offending stone - which was about the size of a lentil.

Anyway, I'm glad that it wasn't anything as serious as a heart attack. Take care of yourself hun.

[strivaria]

I'm wondering if this isn't another one of those women vs men symptom differences that has the docs blowing off a potential source of the problem. You're the third woman who's told me that they had what I experienced and it turned out to be gall bladder problems. I got a chest x-ray as part of my ER stuff, so hopefully between that and an ultrasound, I can find out for sure if that was the source. So far my doc has been pretty responsive to my problems so it shouldn't be an issue to get it looked at closer.