So the long story as short as possible:
I'm 6 foot 4. WAS 285 lbs. Not as overweight as that sounds but definitely not lean. 39 year sold. Manual laborer. Used to do exercise physiology. No history of significant health problems.
Wife has kidney stone operation mid Jan.
Next night I'm in the ER thinking I'm having a heart attack. I was fine, nothing out of the ordinary, walked down stairs, got tight in the chest, starting feeling dizzy. Legs felt kind of weak. Face around nose and jaw started tingling. I started gasping for air. ER did an EKG and blood test. EKG was fine. White blood cell count was up. Diagnosis: Bronchitis, Walking pneumonia, sinusitis, infiltrates in my lungs, and bronchial spasms. Was given steroid pill, zpack antibiotics and steroid "rescue" inhaler.
About a week later I ended up back in the ER with the same symptoms. Another EKG turned out fine. Was given a daily steroid inhaler. I think they mostly wrote me off as anxiety that time.
A week later I spend the entire night sitting up and gasping for air. Went to a Nurse Practioner the next morning. She thought it was acid reflux. Gave me prescription for an antacid. I got better over the course of about a week or two. Lifted something heavy and ended up suffering again that night. One of the stranger symptoms is extreme exhaustion in my abdominals. My stomach muscles feel like I've been freezing cold and shivering until the muscles that shiver when you are cold are so exhausted they can't contract anymore.
Ended up seeing a cardiologist. 64 slice scan and everything came back good with a "moderately" enlarged heart.
Did ok for about two weeks. Did some labor intensive work around the house. Relapsed. This time mostly just these random shortness of breath type episodes and a buzzing or butterflies like feeling in my chest area. Breathlessness just last a few seconds but the chest stuff can last for several minutes at a time. Physical exertion seems to cause me to relapse or makes the symptoms worse and causes delayed and prolonged fatigue the day after.
Since that relapse I've had an ultrasound for gallbladder, a HIDA scan for gall bladder and a cat scan of my torso. Also a 24 hour heart monitor halter test. Also got a chest x-ray.
All came back normal. :-/
Did a whole lot of walking for work. Spent 2 days exhausted afterwards.
Today I had an endoscopy and a colonoscopy. Both came back normal. I didn't even have any signs of acid reflux. No hiatal hernia, no ulcer, NOTHING. etc. Which were all the theorized culprits at some point.
I'm at a complete loss. All this week (even before prepping for the colonoscopy) I've felt my heart beat in my chest and in various places in my abdomen. Tonight I haven't slept a wink because I could feel it. Does it anytime I lay flat. If I lie down, even elevated suddenly I can feel my heart beating inside my abdomen like a jackhammer and at this point I can feel the pounding all the way from my chest area to my groin/buttocks area. A super heard thumping in rythme with my heart beat.
I have no idea what to do. I'm scheduled for an echo on my heart next week and also to do a couple of pulmonary tests.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
I'm 6 foot 4. WAS 285 lbs. Not as overweight as that sounds but definitely not lean. 39 year sold. Manual laborer. Used to do exercise physiology. No history of significant health problems.
Wife has kidney stone operation mid Jan.
Next night I'm in the ER thinking I'm having a heart attack. I was fine, nothing out of the ordinary, walked down stairs, got tight in the chest, starting feeling dizzy. Legs felt kind of weak. Face around nose and jaw started tingling. I started gasping for air. ER did an EKG and blood test. EKG was fine. White blood cell count was up. Diagnosis: Bronchitis, Walking pneumonia, sinusitis, infiltrates in my lungs, and bronchial spasms. Was given steroid pill, zpack antibiotics and steroid "rescue" inhaler.
About a week later I ended up back in the ER with the same symptoms. Another EKG turned out fine. Was given a daily steroid inhaler. I think they mostly wrote me off as anxiety that time.
A week later I spend the entire night sitting up and gasping for air. Went to a Nurse Practioner the next morning. She thought it was acid reflux. Gave me prescription for an antacid. I got better over the course of about a week or two. Lifted something heavy and ended up suffering again that night. One of the stranger symptoms is extreme exhaustion in my abdominals. My stomach muscles feel like I've been freezing cold and shivering until the muscles that shiver when you are cold are so exhausted they can't contract anymore.
Ended up seeing a cardiologist. 64 slice scan and everything came back good with a "moderately" enlarged heart.
Did ok for about two weeks. Did some labor intensive work around the house. Relapsed. This time mostly just these random shortness of breath type episodes and a buzzing or butterflies like feeling in my chest area. Breathlessness just last a few seconds but the chest stuff can last for several minutes at a time. Physical exertion seems to cause me to relapse or makes the symptoms worse and causes delayed and prolonged fatigue the day after.
Since that relapse I've had an ultrasound for gallbladder, a HIDA scan for gall bladder and a cat scan of my torso. Also a 24 hour heart monitor halter test. Also got a chest x-ray.
All came back normal. :-/
Did a whole lot of walking for work. Spent 2 days exhausted afterwards.
Today I had an endoscopy and a colonoscopy. Both came back normal. I didn't even have any signs of acid reflux. No hiatal hernia, no ulcer, NOTHING. etc. Which were all the theorized culprits at some point.
I'm at a complete loss. All this week (even before prepping for the colonoscopy) I've felt my heart beat in my chest and in various places in my abdomen. Tonight I haven't slept a wink because I could feel it. Does it anytime I lay flat. If I lie down, even elevated suddenly I can feel my heart beating inside my abdomen like a jackhammer and at this point I can feel the pounding all the way from my chest area to my groin/buttocks area. A super heard thumping in rythme with my heart beat.
I have no idea what to do. I'm scheduled for an echo on my heart next week and also to do a couple of pulmonary tests.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?