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Medical Question: I am a 33 year old male (no insurance).

I recently had 3 days of flu like symptoms. Last night I had pain in my chest that was so bad that I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t sit. I could even crunch over and cry like a little girl :).

The pain was like having a heart attack without the numb arm plus the worst acid reflux in the world. The pain persisted for about 4 hours.

During my day today I felt better. Even felt like my cold / flu was gone. Tonight, I’ve been up for nearly 5 hours with the same pain in my chest. I have less burning because I took some acid reflux medicine, but the pain is still there.

I looked up symptoms for abdominal strain, but that wouldn’t likely be the diagnosis because I sat around for 3 days with flu like symptoms, so I didn’t do any work at all.

Any suggestions?

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Max offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 169 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (6 minutes after post)

http://www.mayoclinic.com/

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Help me with: If you have trouble running, walking will do:)
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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (6 minutes after post)

This is a good link…hope it helps:)

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Help me with: If you have trouble running, walking will do:)
Anonymous #
1 month, 1 week ago (8 minutes after post)

you really need to get to the hospital or a doctor, there must be somewhere that will take you
chest pain is not something to play around with
you could be having heart attacks, you dont need to have a numb arm or jaw pain or other symptoms, in fact many fatal heart attacks occur because people have ignored the warning chest pains of minor attacks leading up to a fatal one
even if its not a heart attack, there are a multitude of heart conditions that can be fatal if not treated

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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (12 minutes after post)

Yes:)

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Help me with: If you have trouble running, walking will do:)
beatricegalant offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (23 minutes after post)

I agree, go to ER. We could just guess like you what could be your case. What I know is gallbladder attacks are very similar to heart attacks. You must see a dr.

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Anonymous #
1 month, 1 week ago (46 minutes after post)

If at all possible see a doctor….just to have a check up….i know you’ve put no insurance….thank goodness i live in the UK…. we don’t have to worry about the cost of anything medical with the NHS but with something as serious as you describe i would sod the cost and go and see a doctor.

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Anonymous #
1 month, 1 week ago (49 minutes after post)

Anonymous wrote:
If at all possible see a doctor….just to have a check up….i know you’ve put no insurance….thank goodness i live in the UK…. we don’t have to worry about the cost of anything medical with the NHS but with something as serious as you describe i would sod the cost and go and see a doctor.

agreed
you can either spend a portion of your life paying off the medical expense of having your life saved or wait for health to consume you and not be here to pay for anything

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courtybubble offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (2 hours, 16 minutes after post)

If acid reflux medicine helped, then it is probably some sort of severe reflux, or a stomach ulcer. were you actually having a heart attack, you wouldnt have felt great today, and you wouldnt be standing right now.
just go to a flippin doctor, wouldnt you rather have a bill to pay off for a while, than wake up dead.

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Help me with: Sooooo I was out running with my hellhound, and bent down to pick up her ball….and BOOMCRACKPOPOUCH went something in my back D’:

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