Anyone else experience pain in your chest due to gas? I'm not 100% sure but I do not believe I have a heart condition as I am constantly belching and there is always belching when I experience the pain. A couple of weeks ago I drank some lemonade and instantly had sharp stabbing pains over my heart. I have bad anxiety/panic attacks so I was freaking out but then I started to belch a lot and had pretty bad reflux so I figured that was it. Then a few days later I had more gripping pain that lasted for 2 hours but when I took Gas-X I did burp some so again I figured it was gas related. Ever since I seem to have a mild chest discomfort. Not all the time or anything, and not necessarily right after eating. It can happen when I haven't eaten for hours. Even something as simple as a mint can cause it. I'm thinking it's the air I'm swallowing. I've had bad bloating problems and constant belching for a year now so I'm used to that but the chest pain is new. Anyone else?
Chest pain from gas?
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I have been to the ER twice in one month with chest pains, the last on on Thursday just gone. I had a burning sensation radiating down my left arm which is like a serious symptom of a heart attack. Both times the ER docs said it was gastritis/acid reflux. All the ECG and blood tests testing my liver and gall bladder function and the xrays came back clear.
It was a very scary feeling. Still is as I still have the pains. (got a GP appt tomorrow to suss it out.) But to anyone have chest discomfort please go to the ER, it's good to rule it out.
It was a very scary feeling. Still is as I still have the pains. (got a GP appt tomorrow to suss it out.) But to anyone have chest discomfort please go to the ER, it's good to rule it out.
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I've been to the ER twice over the past two years with what sure felt to me like a heart attack. Each time, my heart checks out fine, they give me a GI cocktail, and I sheepishly realize it was either my GERD or my IBS. I've had so many tests over the past 23 years (when I was first diagnosed with IBS) and everything is "normal". It's amazing the excruciating pain one can have when there's nothing "wrong" with you! I do wonder, now that I am 48 and have suffered with GI issues and migraines for most of my adult life... maybe some of us are hypersensitive? We feel pain at the level of our organs (gut, brain)? Overactive central nervous systems?
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