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What Causes Heaviness In Chest And Weakness In Arm?
About 5 weeks ago I started to feel a heaviness in my chest which lasted for about 3 days, the first night I had weakness in my left arm. About 2 weeks after that I started to feel a shooting/stabbing pain on the left side of my chest which lasted for 2 weeks. For the past 3 weeks I have been experiencing shortness of breath and the feeling of not being able to take a deep breath or yawn. I also feel a strain in the right side of my neck and a pain in the upper, back left side of my mouth, however, I have already had my wisdom teeth removed. I am wondering if I had a heart attack or what this could be? I am a 23 year old female, with no family history of heart disease.
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Thu, 13 Mar 2014
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Thu, 8 Feb 2018
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Hello!
Welcome on HCM!
I passed carefully through your concern and would like to explain that your clinical symptomatology seems to be related to a possible muscular-skeletal disorder/inflammation.
Coming to this point I recommend discussing with your doctor on the opportunity of performing a careful physical exam and several lab tests as follows:
- complete blood count,
- PCR & ESR,
- chest X ray study,
- resting ECG,
- cardiac ultrasound,
- AST & ALT,
- CPK,
- LDH,
- CK-MB & Troponin
AN anti-inflammatory medication (naproxen, ibuprofen) would be beneficial in this regard.
Hope to have been helpful to you!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
Welcome on HCM!
I passed carefully through your concern and would like to explain that your clinical symptomatology seems to be related to a possible muscular-skeletal disorder/inflammation.
Coming to this point I recommend discussing with your doctor on the opportunity of performing a careful physical exam and several lab tests as follows:
- complete blood count,
- PCR & ESR,
- chest X ray study,
- resting ECG,
- cardiac ultrasound,
- AST & ALT,
- CPK,
- LDH,
- CK-MB & Troponin
AN anti-inflammatory medication (naproxen, ibuprofen) would be beneficial in this regard.
Hope to have been helpful to you!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
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