Please answer! Chest Crushing

[NancyK.]

Only one kind fellow answered my previous thread about the chest crushing. Please can some more people answer?

I have other GERD symptoms but there's one symptom that has stumped me and my my doctors.

I wake up every morning with a very uncomfortable, heavy chest pressure -- like a 50-lbs boulder is sitting on my chest. This feeling gets lighter when I get up and get going but the feeling of "pressing" on my chest remains throughout the day. It's been going on for 3.5 months and I have had it everyday. Nothing relieves it -- not antacids, PPIs, diet or sleeping elevated -- not even the numbing liquid the emergency doctors give you when you go in for a GERD attack. I've had a ECG and it was normal.

Is this feeling being caused by acid rolling up into my esophagus? Is it am esophageal spasm? Does anyone know? It's very distressful.

Also, can anyone else hear and feel liquid sloshing around very loudly in their stomach when their stomach should be empty (like first thing in the morning and in between meals)?

Thank you.
Nancy

[Rebecca]

Hi Nancy,

I had the chest pain too. It was just awful, the worst pain I have ever known in my life. It was never something that would come and go, it was constantly there no matter what I did. Mine felt like a really bad headache, only in my chest (if that makes any sense). It wasn't a burning feeling at all. It was slightly to the left of my sternum. It went away in about a year (the worst year of my life by far), but I didn't get diagnosed as GERD for 6 months after onset of my pain because my symptoms were so atypical, so perhaps it would have gone away sooner if the docs had caught this at the beginning.

I'd make sure you rule out any cardiac and/or pulmonary problems just to be on the safe side. Hope you feel better real soon. Kind Regards, Rebecca

[NancyK.]

Hi Rebecca,

Thank-you for replying. You didn't say what you did to make the chest pain go away? Do you still get it?