Chest pain, tired, any ideas?

[WhyBeHappyWhenYouCouldBeNormal]

This is going to sound much more severe than it actually is - but i'll just explain beforehand so as to not to drip feed that I had similar few years ago when my daughter went through a sleep regression, i had ecg's and was deemed perfectly healthy... they put it down to lack of sleep/stress and it did ease off after a year or so. I also had an ecg last month for something unrelated and heart rate came back as normal...

I've recently been getting very intense squeezing chest pain that comes out of nowhere and makes me keel over - the pain is mostly above boob centre/right, and if I press over my heart it hurts a lot (generally instinct is to clasp it which instantly makes it worse! if I can rest it will generally calm down and just leaves a dull ache which spreads across my chest and down my left shoulder and arm. It happened just as I was getting off a bus recently so i had to get up soon after and the pain intensified and lasted hours, with me feeling very heavy and sluggish slumped in a chair for hours afterwards.

The squeezey pain has happened at least once a day for the past month, possibly longer. It generally happens in the afternoon between 1 and 4pm when i feel tired -I'm dyspraxic with scoliosis, migraines, and possible hyper mobility and life is exhausting. A walk to the shops can knock me out on a bad day, and anything further with dd in tow needs support and planning out rests carefully with my husband. The pain can happen both before and after i've eaten lunch so not indigestion related.

I've looked at nhs choices and the only similar looking pain was angina, I don't fit any of the risk factors though so it points to stress, but i'm not particularly stressed. It will typically happen at the end of a lovely walk in the park! My bmi is 19, in my mid twenties, don't smoke, don't drink etc...

So do we think this sort of chest pain is normal? Or should i be thinking about something else? I think if I see the Gp They will probably look as my history and ecg and tell me i'm healthy which is why I haven't been in.

Sorry that's really long, appreciate any thoughts though!

I just did the NHS 111 symptom checker thing and it said ring 999 which seems a bit ott, as I know it will ease off again.

I'm not qualified to say whether this is normal or not, but I would be getting medical advice about it.
If it happens every day, out of nowhere and makes you keel over, I personally would be going straight to A&E.
It sounds like you need some investigations to rule out anything serious.

thank you, i know i know. Reading my OP i sound ridiculous. I think i've become very used to it, today it happened on the way home from Sainsbury's so people saw and i felt embarrassed which is why I'm having a wobble.

my body does so many strange things i'm a bit fed up of gearing myself for the GP and them waving me out the door saying it's normal.

ugh, sounds awful for you - any possiblity it's anxiety? or have you strained a chest muscle possibly?

I've had similar chest pain like this for both of the above...

I would get it checked out

Thanks, i'm actually not working this summer and able to take it quite easily so it seems odd that i wouldn't have the pain now. Being dyspraxic anxiety is kind of the everyday so although I wouldn't be surprised to hear its related to that, I sort of want to know well what's changed to mean its a problem? not sure about strained muscles.. I avoid any strenuous activity! I guess that could happen coughing or the like though?

There is a condition of coronary artery spasm ,sometimes called variant angina, or Prinzmetal's angina - see this link: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/angina/expert-answers/coronary-artery-spasm/faq-20058316.
I'm not saying this is what you've got, but the symptoms are similar although you don't fit all the criteria. Might be worth investigating?
If your GP would be happy to prescribe a GTN spray (glyceryl trinitrate, used for angina) to see if it relieved the pain, that might give the answer. But, as you've had normal ecg results, I doubt whether he would agree.

That's interesting Nanthewiser - something to ask the gp about certainly. thank you for linking.

I've heard you can get a kind of 24hr ecg, so they could see whats happening when i get the pain?

That's a Holter monitor - your GP could advise, and refer you for one.

Could the pain be coming from the scoliosis?
My son has scoliosis and hypermobility and gets really awful chest pain and pain in his breast bone as well as breathing problems.

The doctor has told us the pain is caused by the ribs squashing the cartilage in between. Maybe you need an x-ray to check the scoliosis hasn't got worse?

please see your gp.this isn't normal

Oh shorty that's a thought, I hope its not got worse, but then I hope its nothing to do with my heart either!