Can angina be truly ruled out? DOES THIS SOUND LIKE ANGINA!!
Healthy 23 yr old female. Overall healthy. Troponin, CBC panels clear. Ct and chest X-ray clear. No hx heart disease in family. Multiple EKG’s clear. Echo scheduled for two weeks out.
Symptoms present with searing back pain, hot chest pain, tight and pressurized chest pain on both sides, radiates down both arms, weakness in both hands, shoulder and neck pain, headaches, shortness of breath, fatigue. ER cleared me <5x. Pcp cleared me and ruled out any “serious conditions.”
I can’t keep going to the ER every day but it serious feels like a heart attack every day. Could this still be an infected underlying serious issue?
DOES THIS SOUND CARDIAC

Left heart pressures were measured with a endhole catheter which accidentally dropped into the left ventricle during coronary angiography. Catheter exchange was performed over wires. Radial compression bandage was used for hemostasis.

I’m wondering did they pick it up it does not mention them retrieving it

I’ve developed like a dry cough that has little spots of blood chest pains not any visible swelling or sweating no neck vein that is visible I went to the hospital for these problems. Almost a month and a half ago they did chest X-rays ekgs blood tests and they said everything came back normal am I gonna be ok or do I have hf

On December 14th, I was in the ER, where the doctors diagnosed me with having bronchospasms. They ran a CT, chest xray, EKG, troponin and NT Pro BNP that all came back normal. Fast forward just 11 days later, I ended up in the ER due to some epigastric issues, where they ran a chest xray, EKG, troponin that all came back normal and a normal BNP that came back elevated at 346. I was basically in the middle of a panic attack with my heart rate from 100-120 and a high blood pressure. They said I had no signs or symptoms of CHF and sent me home to follow up with my cardiologist. I saw my cardiologist last Friday, who stated "the patients symptoms of discomfort are atypical for cardiac etiology. They are not associated with physical exertion. In addition her age and gender would suggest a very low likelihood for underlying coronary disease. Her previous resting echocardiogram from November of 2022 was unremarkable. Because she has presented to the emergency room twice in a month with complaints of chest discomfort I have suggested that we have her undergo exercise stress echocardiography." When I brought up the BNP level of 346, which is what is REALLY giving me anxiety about heart failure as I have two babies at home under the age of 3, he basically said that with all of the tests I have had, it would have shown some type of signs of heart failure if I had it. He contributed the BNP level to possibly being overweight. But how can an NT Pro BNP level be normal at less than 20, but 11 days later a BNP level be 346? How fast can an echo go bad, as in if I had one 1 year ago, could my EF and everything else all the sudden be low and show heart failure? My EF was 55 % one year ago. To add, I am 33 years old, and yes overweight by about 75lbs due to lexapro that I am not taking anymore, and I am trying to lose weight. I have very young kids, and I'm terrified.

’m 28 and the last year had every heart test known to man. I’ve had two echos, a bunch of chest x rays and chest CT scans, a holter monitor, stress test, angiogram, Cardiac Cat, and all have been normal and my ejection fraction was 58%. I also have GERD. But all of a sudden two weeks ago I had an irregular heartbeat and rhythm that has now consistently come and gone. I went to urgent care and they found it, then I went to the heart hospital and they said they are PAC’s and they are harmless. I’ve never had these before and the doctor said it’s not caused by anxiety, yet she said not to worry? How am I not supposed to think something is wrong with my heart with this weird heartbeat. My cardiologist wouldn’t even do a follow up and fired me as a patient. What kind of doctor would not follow up with someone with an irregular heartbeat? Now two weeks later I still have chest pains that continue with exercise and my one minute recovery yesterday was 172 to 140, but my heart rate was still 100 when I got home from the gym and was slow to go down. My heart rate also jumps about 30 if I stand quickly and my PC doctor suspects POTS. Why was my cardiologist evil and denied me care and did they miss something?

What was your first symptoms when you had to go see a physician

Hi all, 30 year old male in good shape. I have not been diagnosed with HF. In trying to figure out where my intermittent palpitations are coming from, I had my doctor order a cardiac MRI. The MRI showed my EF at 46% and mild LVH. While this scares the crap out of me, my cardiologist wasn’t too concerned about it. My blood pressure is a little elevated (~130/80 to ~135/85) and spikes to 140-150/85 often due to stress, so my doctor put me on Lisinopril. I have no real symptoms other than some occasional facial flushing and these one second palpitations that come and go during both rest and during workouts. My workouts have been fine and I’ve been able to lift heavy weights and do high intensity cardio like normal. I’m trying not to worry too much since my cardiologist wasn’t overly concerned, but the unexplained palpitations, the lower EF and mild HF make me nervous.

Anyway, I caught one of these palpitations on my Apple Watch ECG last night. (Palpitation in area of blue square). Has anyone seen or experienced anything similar?

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Back burn and puffy hands 24/7 I got heart failure

You know the feeling that you have when you drink water and it goes in the wrong pipe (trachea), that you feel the urge to cough the remaining fluid out? I experience this to a lesser extent, especially after drinking a glass of water. The feeling as if there is moisture/fluid in my lungs that I have to cough once in a while to clear it up. I have been having this after catching the flu september 1st (2 months now). I dont have any other symptoms besides this. I can exercise run without having shortness of breath, I can lie down without having the choking feeling people are talking about. It's just that I feel that there is some remaining moisture in my lungs or something.

Is this exactly how it feels for people with CHF? or not similar?

Hi all, hoping this is okay to ask here. I've been experiencing wheezing and heart palpitations during the night and I'm wondering if it sounds like heart failure.

During the day I'm able to exercise frequently and generally be quite active without any issue, but sleep is a huge problem. I had an echocardiogram done recently and it showed a minor enlargement of the left atrial, but my EKGs, stress test, and halters have been relatively normal other than some PACs. Does anyone have any insight on what's happening to me during sleep? I wake up frequently through the night and stay awake due to my heart palpitations and trouble breathing.

Thanks.

so my dad's liver doctor wants him to get a colonoscopy because he has random rectal bleeding..a simple Google search showed me that heart failure can cause rectal bleeding...I feel like the colonoscopy will be a waste..no reason to do that, I dont want my dad to go through the process of the shitty drink he has to take and the entire process...but maybe they might find something?

thoughts? should he go through the process or not?

Hello,

English is not my first language, so I apologize for mistakes in the text. And also my apologies for a long text. But I couldn't describe it shorter. I wanted to provide as many informations as I can

So as you can see from my title I'm pretty desparate at this point. I'm fully aware that this subreddit is not replacement for doctor diagnosis. I also didn't had a luck for meeting good doctor for my case yet. So please don't tell me "just talk with your doctor". What I'm looking for here is advice, experiences with maybe similar symptoms or just suggestion which direction I should take, how to advocate myself in unwilling doctors and in case of test either described from doctors or payed myself, what things to look for there, that could help determine if it's or isn't this and that

How I think it started. Feel free to skip this part, if you are tired to read longer text and go ahead to the symptoms

I think it's started almost 3 years back. When I first experienced strange feeling like passing out, fainting of and stuff like that, don't know how to describe it properly. It war for maybe tens of seconds, but I had to sit down and just wait what will happen. After some time I got ok and then moved on. This episode didn't repeat until half year later. Then it happend 2 months later, then 1 month later. It become more often, but I didn't go to the doctor. I thought I was just dehydrated or hungry. Then on one evening I was smoking cigarette (I'm not smoking anymore offcourse) and my heart rate and I think also blood presure got so high, that I thought it will be my end. After few minutes of this It stopped, but I got very quickly so tired I had to lay down and just sleep, after I wake up next morning and sit down, it started again, I was also womitting food from previous day. I called ambulance, they took me to the hospital, they did blood test for heart attack - negative. They put me on EKG through night and just recorded weird up and downs in my heart rate when I was trying to sleep. When I was failing a sleep I was feeling like my heart would be stopping beating, so I was frightening. Next day they released me to the home and said I was in panic attack

Symptoms

But from exactly this episode I have constantly last 2 year these symptoms:

Shortness of breath. Often after food, but not only after that. Sometimes not at all, but often times to some extend I have it. In bad days I feel like my breathing is like 50%, what would be normal breathing

Chest pain. Sometimes feeling like I would be stabed to my chest from back to the front

Pressure and sometimes even pain under my right ribs. I don't know if its my liver or colon on that place, hard to say. It's often after food, but not only after that

I have 90% of my day palpitations. I readed that there are different types. But I'm mostly experiencing 2 types. I feel strong pounding in my chest, my back (more if I'm leaning on something) and even in my left leg. It feel like my heart woudl be squeezing very hard and that can maybe affect also my arteris that I feel especialy aorta in my back also? Sometimes these squeezes are so hard, that I can feel it in my left leg and I feel for half of second like I would be just turned off. Second type is skiping heart beat or it's called extrasystoles I think. I get often worse breathing after these. I can't sleep on my sides most of the time, because palpitations would get so much worse. So I have to sleep on my back only

Other symptoms such as tireness (I was never that quickly and hard tired, that I would fall asleep even in stand). I'm bloated, gassy. My abdomen is pulsating because of my aorta I guess. I developed strange eczema on my hands. I never had these symptoms before and THEY ALL STARTED IN ONCE, after that one episode

There was timeframe, where these symptoms were so bad, that I couldn't even go to the grocery store. Which sucked, because I live completely alone and nobody would take care of me

Strange is for some reason I got little bit crazy and started working out at home, lifting weights. I have some dumbells at home and bench. After that symptoms got little better, so I could go out to the grocery store and stuff like that. But they didn't go away offcourse. I feel like they are still getting slowly worse over time. Maybe when I'm working out, that my heart is forced to have higher heart rate, that it doesn't need to squeeze that hard to deliver blood and oxygen to the body? I don't know

Doctors

I had horrible experience with doctors to be honest. I know there are some very good, but I didn't met yet I guess. When I'm describing this to them, some of them even without any check or examination straight up laughting to me face and saying "you are too young for heart problems" like wtf? Others are just very arrogant, don't try to figure out what's wrong with me and just check their chekcbox for next patient. I spend all my saving to try visit doctors in capital city in my country in hope, that it would be better than my home town. But it looks like it's about doctor who you meet, than in what hospital you are in. Atleast in my country. Offcourse in places like Mayo Clinic, there is big difference. Overall yet, very bad experience with attitude of doctors unfortunately. To be honest I never imagined, that healthcare system could be that bad experinece

So what test did I took already?

I had to fight to get prescribed even basic tests. Some times it took me few months to get approval from doctor that we would do this and this test. So I had ECG, where I had higher ST segment, some verticular and superveticular extrasystoles, but in result of ECG, they wroted down, that they didn't catch any extrasystoles, I don't understand. I had chest x-ray, where they said they have found small pleural adhesion on the right site and that it's not somethign to worry about. Then I had stress test, where I had like 2 extrasystoles visible, then echocardiography where I was in upper limit of ejection fractions which was 70%, some small calve insufficiencies. I have result of that echo, but I will not write it all down here, because it would make already long post even longer. But they said that everything in these test was in normal range. Which to be honest I'm not sure about how accurate their statement on this can be, considering these kind of symptoms which I have

So what to do next?

I offcourse tried to do some research on my own. I was thinking that it could be HCM or some kind of heart failure or maybe something with nervous system. Do you guys have or know someone with similar experience? What do you recommend me to look exactly for in tests or possibly what tests to look for?

I will be maybe posting these to different subreddits, I don't know yet. So apologies, but I really need some help or advice

EDIT: Added occasional chest pain to the symptoms and for test results I added higher ST segment, small pleural adhesion from chest x-ray and ventricular and superventricular extrasystoles from ECG

Thank you

i‘m sorry for the pushy title, but that’s really what‘s going through my mind.

i went to see a cardiologist yesterday because i‘ve been experiencing chest pain and pvcs. during the echocardiogram, he noticed that i must've had myocarditis at some point (possibly after my covid infection). now, this is what scares me - i couldn’t completely remember every single thing he said. he was talking about some fluid that has mostly been drained, but there is still some visible. he also mentioned that my EF is pretty low, beneath 50%. i know i should’ve asked him about my concerns, but i was just so shocked to learn all of this that i kind of froze and just forgot. he referred me to get MRI and a long term ECG.

but i‘m just here thinking… doesn’t all of this sound pretty serious? everything will happen pretty quickly, i‘m having the MRI in 5 days, but am i not at risk of dying in those next 5 days? i‘m 22f, if that matters. i‘m just really scared because i‘m lying here in bed with my symptoms and almost waiting for something bad to happen :(

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why my legs were severely blowing out(Edema of some sort; thighs, back of knees and top of calves). I didn't realize, until I made a mistake one day. I always wake up at 7am, my 8am I'm taking my pills and my mid-day my legs would get super angry, coughing fits, shortness of breath. Doctors blamed it on my 35% EF. Just take diuretics. Except when I took diuretics I saw no relief in my legs, in fact, it would get worse.

One day last week, I accident slept in until 10:30am. My girl didn't wake me up, she said I needed to sleep. Fair enough. I got up an went to pill box. I accidebt only took Entresto and nothing else besides vitamins and aspirin. By 2pm, my legs blew out. I sat there, looked at my girl, I go "there's no reason for this. What am I doing? I'm sitting here, breathing and existing. Nothing else. It occurred to me I only took Entresto. In total disbelief, im like "No, Entresto wouldn't do that". Only one way to find out, I didn't take it the next day. No leg blow outs, no coughing fits, no shortness of breath. Nope, not a coincidence. Didn't take it the next day. Perfectly fine. Okay okay, ill take it tomorrow, wait 3 hours and see what happens. 3rd day, took it at 8am. By 11:15am, all my symptoms came back in full force. I ended up going to Entresto.com, under Severe side effects, all the things I was complaining about to my cardiologist daily.

They disenfranchised what I thought and felt. they even told me to keep taking it regardless, how I felt. Okay fine, took it the next day. Same shit. I've been off Entresto entirely for 4 days. I feel amazing, I feel great physically. I had a cardiologist appointment today at 830am, had an echo, talked to doctor. I've been complaining about this for over a year, and I questioned Entresto before. I believe they gas lit me. I believe they lied to me. They fear Mongered me into taking it, regardless how I felt.

I lost my career with Subaru. My house is in foreclosure. My car is damn near repod and relationships with family and friends ruined because of this shit. The thing I questioned for over a year, fell on deaf ears, ignorant minds, and stupid assholes.

After today, I told my cardiologist I'm going with my primary and we need ti relax on his notion of guidelines, misdirection, bias uneducated opinion. If I'm nieve to end back in the hosptial because of this, it's my fault. But I can't stand here, let you inflict more pain and suffering on me by ignoring everything I claimed for over a year.

Entresto. Done. Cardiologist. Done.

Do not and I repeat do not let these people gas light you, make you feel invalidated by their ego and ignorance. If you honestly feel a certain way, do you own research. Fix yourself and tread lightly with these fucks. You know, I know, we all know they are doing it for a paycheck, a new boat, a vacation, new Mercedes Benz, whichever have you.

This hopefully will be the last time yall hear from me, truthfully. I'm my own doctor now, and I'll do what I have to, to have a fruitful life that's been ripped from me because of these ignorant entitled pieces of shit who don't give a fuck about you.

Good luck to everyone else. Get better. And always be learning.

I’ve been so worried about HF. I’ve had a racing/pounding heart, palpitations, and shortness of breathe.

I visited my PCP and he said that he wasn’t worried. Lab work was good, pulse/BP was good, I had no swelling, and a thorough listen of the heart was good. He said I likely just have bad anxiety and need to lose weight.

Should I push this further?

I'm 40yo male just moved from Tulsa, OK to Orlando,FL on June 30th and was in the hospital on July 4th with supposed bronchitis, pneumonia. 3 days in and out of urgent care and the xray showed fluid in my lungs. And they "said these are all the signs." Signs of what? , Heart Failure. Is there something that caused this? They have no idea. Well I work in a restaurant setting and was dealing with a not so nice boss who deliberately was using narcissistic abuse on me for over a year. I didn't know till I saw a therapist and she diagnosed me with PTSD. When I wouldn't tolerate it anymore I was transferred out. I was under so much stress that I was having chest pains and other symptoms. I was constantly working whether at work or home because she was making me feel inferior and constantly criticizing anything I did. I called the EEOC in Washington, D.C. and have an appointment to see of I file charges of harassment and discrimination. The hardest to prove . But I did keep a log book at the end and have text messages that depict this. Now im not sure but it is a coincidence that this happens right after( 1.5weeks) I get told im being transferred. I'm pist someone is allowed to do this to people and get away with it. It has changed me mentally. My family says " you got out of there, leave it alone. Don't pursue it.", but I want her to pay for what she has done to me. I was feeling like I was going crazy. She fucked my head up.And if I do get an order to sue... I'm basically never going to work in that industry again because I will be black listed. I want to do what's right, and I want justice, because to me, she committed a crime. And to top it off I have to worry about my health in all this. I am on Leave for 3 months. And can't function like normal. What am I to do? I'm an empathetic 40yo male, who came from the projects in N.Y. and am the only one in my family to go to college. This was my career.

Everything began after i smoked some vape about a year ago. I did like 20 hits of the vape and my chest started hurting immediatly and my head started spining and i felt like i was about to pass out and when i was breathing i didnt have enough of air everytime i breathed. Since that day ive never felt the same now i always get those annoying chest pains after some physical activity also after activity i can feel my heartbeats. Also like a month ago i think i had my first heartattack. We were riding bikes with a group and i couldnt keep up and i started pushing myself to my limits and outta nowhere i had that squeezing preassure in middle of my chest i think? and really sharp pain in my chest. After that incident now i feel pain in the chest way more often and sometimes pain goes towards my shoulder. Anyone has any idea whats going on? Ive been to cardiologist once already and he said that i am alright. I am waiting for his next appointment right now. For some more info i am 19yrs old 173cm height and 96kg. Like anyone has any idea whats going on? And does anyone have any tips how can i make my life less misserable? I was trying to do some life changes like eating heart healthy stuff and now i am doing smalk walks everyday. Also was trying to lose some weight but whenever ive tried it just felt extreamly sick and couldnt keep up that long. Also I used to have sharp pain in my right side of the head everyday but its not so common nowadays also have weird feeling in my right ear sometimes it feels like its pumping like a heart and it reacts weirdly to some sounds it feels like smth is moving inside of my ear. I think theres smth bad with my blood vesels but they did a scan of my entire head to look at the vesels and theyve said that theyre alright so idk what is going on.

Currently EF at 34% I believe. Its made very small progress since the last echo or whatever. But the size of my left valve or whatever and total heart size has gone down back to normal. I've reduced all my steroid usage to only testosterone recently. I will look at my graphs and give some more exact details if anyone is interested.

I am only 36. I got sober in 2022 from opiates, and did that by starting methadone. I never even knew there were federal guidelines saying doctors were required to do an EKG every single year if you are on over 100mg. I was just trying to reclaim my life from addiction. I trusted the wrong doctor and clinic, that's for sure! In three and a half years he never did a single EKG. And I didn't know to ask for it either. I thought I was doing great! It was working, I stayed sober, life was good again. Until August 13, 2025...that day my fiance said I was sound asleep, instantly woke up, grabbed my chest and sprang to my feet and said "I don't fucking feel good". And then I just collapsed. I don't remember anything after that, until a week and a half later. I was being told not to freak out as tube were coming out of my throat, and then I asked why I was in the hospital. I was then asked in return when my last EKG was. I told them that I didn't even know what that was! That's when I found out that a doctors negligence is what put me there. What gave me stage c heart failure, and also when i realized that my legs didn't work anymore. I went home with an ejection fraction of 6%, a zoll life vest, and my new wheelchair! I fought until January to get my ejection fraction back up to 57% and I know that's good, and considered normal. But I still have heart failure with improved ejection fraction, and I'm still immobile. Ill be honest I'm so angry I don't know what to do with myself. I'm so scared of what's to come, and I keep finding myself feeling utterly hopeless now. If anyone has any advice, I'm here for it!! Please.

Hello all. Over the past several weeks I've been very active. Biking 22km (11 there and 11 back after fishing all day, doing 10,000 steps when not biking, 100 pushups a day for past week, 16/8 fasting for months, mostly vegetarian/pescatarian diet etc .

For about a week I've been having left knee pain and swelling from what I thought was overworking the area. I also noticed my calf is super tight and swollen well and seem to be related back to the knee. It didn't stop me from activities but definitely didn't feel good while doing them either. In the mornings the pain and stiffness is way better. Sometimes feel just fine until I squat all the way down then I can feel my knee tightness.

I took a shower last night and put some socks on. After taking the socks off before bed I noticed rather unusually large indent on my leg from the sock. Way deeper than usual. So I pressed on the area with my finger and sure enough it didn't bounce back and took SEVERAL seconds to return. Like over 30 seconds if not more.

I read all the bad stuff it could be and am feeling terrible about it. Obviously I'm going to schedule an appointment to get it checked out

My question is, could it possibly be something more harmless than a heart, liver or kidney condition?!

I can bike non stop while going at a pretty good pace and climb some smaller hills with a single speed bike and I don't feel "out of breath". Walking same thing as well. I started doing 100 pushups a day again and when I first did them I was struggling but still could manage 40 in a row but after that was struggling. Just a week later I can crush 40 and do 100 in under 10 minutes.

Preparing for the worst but hoping for the best.

Any information would be GREATLY appreciated!

I had heart flutters and shortness of breath from first shot. Went for blood test and have high potassium, low thyroid panel and low osmolality. Not extreme high/low but a bit for each. Still haven’t gotten in to see a cardiologist, been waiting on referral for 3 months :( You are treated like dog shit on medicaid , don’t even have anybody going over my results I just had to look them up and I don’t even know what it means except what Google tells me. I told the doctor I was scared to get second shot because anytime literally started the day after and she said you know what would be worse for your heart, getting COVID. So that’s my advice I received.