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Chest pains. Over exercise?
Perdu wrote: Just found it curious upon raising my level of walking, light jogging, jump roping and so on, I've noticed upper chest pains. It quickly subsides when I rest up for a minute or so. But it does get painful. It does not seem to be in the heart area, and it is on both sides of the front of the chest and down the left arm if I really get my heart going. Please see your physician immediately. Refrain from ANY conditioning until you are cleared to do so. Pain in the upper chest, and especially down either arm that rises and falls with exertion will sound familiar to any medicial professonal. Hopefully it's just you gettng back in shape, but you cannot take a chance with this. I lost a very close friend in his late 30's this way. You are doing great things, but this must come first. Please keep us posted. Coff 325/281/185 |
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"Just found it curious upon raising my level of walking, light jogging,
jump roping and so on, I've noticed upper chest pains. It quickly subsides when I rest up for a minute or so. But it does get painful. It does not seem to be in the heart area, and it is on both sides of the front of the chest and down the left arm if I really get my heart going. I've done very little if any exercise in the past. I don't much care for it. But now that I made my peace with it, I am stepping it up. Any comments on this? I'm setting up a doctor's appointment ASAP, of course. And will refrain from over working the heart until I get a clear picture. Just wanted some ideas, whether or not it happens to others that start off exercising after not doing so for so long. " This is not normal. You should get to a doctor immeadiately and refrain from any excercise until you get checked out. The symptoms you have, especially the pain radiating down the left arm, could definitely be heart related and need to be checked out. I'd be sure to have a cardiac stress test done as part of the diagnosis. |
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Perdu wrote: Just found it curious upon raising my level of walking, light jogging, jump roping and so on, I've noticed upper chest pains. It quickly subsides when I rest up for a minute or so. But it does get painful. It does not seem to be in the heart area, and it is on both sides of the front of the chest and down the left arm if I really get my heart going. I've done very little if any exercise in the past. I don't much care for it. But now that I made my peace with it, I am stepping it up. Any comments on this? I'm setting up a doctor's appointment ASAP, of course. And will refrain from over working the heart until I get a clear picture. Just wanted some ideas, whether or not it happens to others that start off exercising after not doing so for so long. -- Best Regards, Steve Tout est per=B7du fors l'hon=B7neur DOMS or it could be the poison ivy too. Oh that was the mysterious burning sensation in your fat between the skin and your muscles where there are very few nerve receptors wasn't it? My, my you'll be keeping a whole team of physicians busy won't you? |
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Just found it curious upon raising my level of walking, light jogging, jump roping and so on, I've noticed upper chest pains. It quickly subsides when I rest up for a minute or so. The key point there is "quickly subsides". My bet is that if you take your pulse, you'll find that there is some specific rate at which it goes away. But it does get painful. It does not seem to be in the heart area, and it is on both sides of the front of the chest and down the left arm if I really get my heart going. Note that the actual location of the pain is not really significant. The type of pain isn't either. Let me tell you a story, to put that into perspective. An EMT or an paramedic is not allowed to touch you without permission, which means if you are able to say yes or no, you *must* say yes or they can't. If you are unable, they have implied permission and can assume you would say yes if you only could. So John Doe is sitting at a bar having a beer, and begins to experience severe pains in the chest area. Bad enough to double him over and cause his face to be a bit pale and drawn such that a couple people notice that he is in distress. They ask him if he's okay, and he describes the pain. Over his objections, they call for an ambulance, which arrives in 3 minutes and 43 seconds (cracker jack crew :-). John Doe tells the medics that he is having indigestion, and doesn't want to have them doing anything that he'll get a bill for, so *hands* *off* is the word. John Doe is beginning to look like death warmed over too, as his face is pale and his forehead is obviously moist. The paramedics can't touch him... so they wait. They sit down at the bar, and order lemonade. They get half of it down too, before John Doe collapses on the floor, unconscious. He has just suffered a second, more serious, myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a "heart attack". He is immediately treated, given an electro shock to restart his heart, which was just quivering all over (fibrillation). He is transported to the hospital emergency room, and soon transfered to a regular room where he is wired to an ekg for a "few days" of observation. John Doe suffers a massive MI three days later an cannot be revived. The funeral is 3 days later. What's the significance? Several points of interest. "Indigestion" is *commonly* what people think they are feeling when they have a heart attack. If they are *immediately* treated the consequences are greatly reduced. Those consequences are that an artery to the heart muscle is blocked to at least some degree, and if it is totally blocked the part of the muscle that it supplies blood to will simply die. If it is a major artery, and a significant area dies... the patient is dead. But if it is a small area, and the blood flow can be restarted, the muscle can heal up. However, during the first few days as it heals there is a very great chance that the process will cause the heart to become unstable due to false electrical signals that come from the forming of scar tissue on the heart. That is why refusing assistance in the first place is deadly. And it is also the reason that people who have a minor heart attack are kept "for observation" for a few days... and sometimes die. *Don't* *put* *yourself* *in* *that* *situation* *unnecessarily*! I've done very little if any exercise in the past. I don't much care for it. But now that I made my peace with it, I am stepping it up. Any comments on this? Yeah. Cool it until you get a checkup. I'm setting up a doctor's appointment ASAP, of course. And will refrain from over working the heart until I get a clear picture. Just wanted some ideas, whether or not it happens to others that start off exercising after not doing so for so long. Once upon a time I had a cardiologist do a workup on me. He said I needed another appointment, but with a different doctor. The other doctor said it would be okay to put it off for a few days, but not more than a couple weeks. He basically told me not to lift anything heavier than my left foot until then... Of course, the "other doctor" was a surgeon. The fact that I could, and did, put it off for two weeks turned out to be significant, and very unusual. Few people have that option, but I did simply because I'd had a lot of advance warning, and some significant training. I spotted what was going on before it was too late. But the more common way it works is what had happened to my younger brother a few years before me (that was my advance warning!). He was told to lay down, and do *not* even so much as stand up. They took him directly to surgery. This is not normal. You should get to a doctor immeadiately and refrain from any excercise until you get checked out. The symptoms you have, especially the pain radiating down the left arm, could definitely be heart related and need to be checked out. I'd be sure to have a cardiac stress test done as part of the diagnosis. Excellent advice. *Do* *it* *now*. Do *not* put it off for even a few days. The difference can be very significant. I know a couple dozen people who've had a bypass done. When I had mine (1998) they *all* told me the same thing: after surgery you will get depressed, so be prepared. Except what I noticed was they all gave me a time frame too (3 weeks, 1 week, 6 weeks, etc), and they were all different! I thought that was odd, but didn't understand until much later, when it became clear what had happened. I had two weeks to prepare for being out of commission for 3 months. I put my things in order, and basically set myself up for a long vacation. I had time to cover all the bases, and that is exactly what none of those other people had been able to do. So one guy's business went to Hell 4 weeks after he had surgery... which he knew was happening and couldn't do a thing to avoid, so he got depressed. Another guy's situation took 6 weeks, and someone else's took 3 weeks. That was why they all had different times to depression! Me? I had a *wonderful* three month long vacation! I stayed for a while with 3 different kids of mine, and didn't come home until I had to go back to work. Depression??? I was too busy having fun! Early detection and treatment helps. The way to ensure that is to spend a lot of time talking to doctors about how you will know it's time. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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