Ok so I feel soo silly, I've been in and out of the er in the past couple of weeks ( sorry for not writing) and the same thing over and over, pain in my chest that would go through my shoulder into my back, it was the worst on the lower left side just inside of my breast. I thought I was really having a heart attack when I went into the ER the first time. After being admitted (what can I say after the whole mis-diagnosed aortic dissection they don't take any chances) and having every test run they said my ejection fraction was a little better 46/48% up from 42/44% and the ekg was abnormal but not anything to make them think it was a heart attack or any further cardiac issues I was sent home. I followed up the next day at my dr's office, my Dr wasn't available and I saw one of her partners who actually said you're still healing, don't worry about pain. Needless to say I thought that was a strange thing to tell someone with cardiovascular disease but I bit my tongue. A week later I was back in the ER, this time they sent me home after about 16 hours, again the echo, ct scan, the whole gamit of tests. Again I followed up the next day, this time I was able to see My Dr. She took one look at me, pressed on my chest and said this is the easiest thing you've brought me in a year you have costochondritis. Basically it's inflimation between the ribs, it can be horribly painful and mimic a heart attack. She said it's not a very common thing but it happens, mostly to people in thier fourties (again I'm 30 people) I said can we tell my body it's too young for all this? she just looked at me said she was sorry and told me to take an anti inflamitory and come back if it didn't get better in a couple weeks. Well it's been the couple weeks, the over the counter stuff didn't do it, so i'm going back tomorrow. I'm just stuck either way I go, before they looked for anything other than a cardiac issue, and now that's all they look for. But like my dr says, chances are the cardiac issues are the ones that could kill me, they have time to find the others.




