Posted by BarbaraCat on June 6, 2006, at 11:45:54
In reply to Re: where did u go? - chest pain » cardinaldirection, posted by Larry Hoover on June 6, 2006, at 6:18:28
Don't remember, but have you had your thyroid checked? Too little or too much can cause heart symptoms.
Also, good ol' stress is a major contributor to heart distress. I ended up carted by ambulance to the ICU last year because my heart was behaving badly with all symptoms of an attack. Tight squeezing pains, fluttering, arms going numb, jaw pain. Every test possible was run and showed that my heart was in good shape but my blood alkalinity and CO2 were off.
I have fibromyalgia and that causes weird symptoms, but my belief now is that my breathing was wildly disregulated. Forgetting to breathe, breath holding, shallow breathing, sighing alot. This is a recipe for activating the fight or flight response. Plus, I have sleep apnea and had quit wearing that dang 'Darothy Vader' CPAP mask, as my husband refers to it.
So consider hyperventilation syndrome and especially sleep apnea which is known to affect the heart. Suggest it to your docs cause you'll need a sleep study to confirm the apnea, which you may not realize you have.
Since getting a more comfortable CPAP mask, I wear it and it's made a huge difference. The breath and regenerative sleep are key in all of this.
- Barbara
> > my multi covers quite a few minerals, and the calcium supplement im taking also has a few. honestly trying to stray away from most metals, as i think i might have an overabundance of them... and also having read that too many metals in my diet as a youth may have played a part in contributing to the development of the neurochemical disorders that i suffer from now.
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