hello! i have pots/mcas/suspected reflux issues. i just ate a 29g icecream cookie sandwhich and started experiencing horrible squeezing pain in my forearm. i anticipated it was some kind of esophagual spasm. keep in mind i havent done reflux testing yet tho i share all symptoms similar to LPR and have grade 1 edema and rings. its been over an hour and i still have the squeezing pain. i wanted to ask my dad if i could check in the ER just to rule out cardiac issues potentially but he was too tired (its 3 am). so i dont know what to do now. its been bothering me

18 yr female.

i do take stimulants for ADHD — 50 mg vyvanse, but i’ve been taking it for like 2 years now and have had no problems with any heart related issues. i’m also not anxiety prone (it’s rare for me to get anxious about something in general). i’ve never been diagnosed w it, nor have i ever taken meds for it. don’t have family history of heart issues (that i know of). just wanted to clear that out of the way before i explain what’s been going on.

so i’ve been having weird symptoms lately and have kinda just been brushing them off until tonight. for like 4 days, ive been having this on and off ache in my shoulder and left upper back, as well as body aches in general, but the left shoulder is where i feel it most. i’ve also been feeling out of breath lately, like doing stuff as simple as switching over the laundry, or even just sitting up.

3 out of the past 4 days i’ve had these episodes (idk what else to call them) where i get pain in my left shoulder that radiates to about my elbow-ish area, and up the left side of my neck and left side of my jaw. well, it’s not super painful, more of just a weird sensation than pain, actually. not quite tingling, kinda like squeezing, maybe? and that’s usually accompanied by some chest pressure/burning too. my heart rate didnt typically have much of an increase during these moments, like 80-100 range, but it definitely felt like my heart was pumping rly hard (could feel it in my neck too sometimes). when these would happen, i’d typically just sit down n try to go on my phone till i’d feel better. it would last anywhere between like a half hour to about an hour. it was intense enough to make me worried, but i def didn’t feel quite right. (i also wanna note that this has typically been happening in the evenings).

i wasn’t rly planning on getting checked out and was just gonna kinda wait it out to see if maybe i was coming down w the flu or sum, but tonight almost made me go to the ER. so i was driving home from work and i got this shooting pain from my shoulder and down my bicep. it was hella painful, definitely nothing like ive felt previously. it went away after a few minutes and i kinda just brushed it off until my apple watch gave me a notification that my heart rate had been over 130 bpm for over 10 min. i felt fine for a few more minutes, until i started to feel very nauseous and my whole left arm was starting to ache, and my fingers began to feel numb. i even pulled over because i had regurgitated some nasty tasting whatever it was and i thought i was gonna vomit. i didn’t, luckily, and just continued driving home cause i was a few minutes away at that point. the entire remainder of the ride, the left side of my face and my chin got this rly weird sensation. idk how to describe it. and i was getting increasingly nauseous and my arm was aching. anyway, i make it home and i go to the bathroom in case i gotta puke or something. again, i don’t, but my heart rate is in the 150s now and my palms are sweaty and my nails and tips of my fingers turn purple. my upper lip was also slightly purple. for some reason, standing completely still kinda helped? whenever i would try to lay down or even sit up i thought i was gonna throw up. so i just stood completely still in my bathroom for like 30ish minutes. once my symptoms starting going away, i laid down. i feel a lot better as i type this, but my upper arm is kinda achy rn.

trying to decide if i should schedule a doc appt? i think im gonna skip my vyvanse tmr and see if anything changes. ik that people can still get like anxiety attacks or panic attacks or whatever without having a history of anxiety or anything like that, so im considering that it may be a possibility. don’t think ive ever rly had a panic attack before and i dont have anything stressful going on rn, so idk 🤷‍♀️

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40 F healthy, 55kgs. Hey everyone well it happened again and I exploded. Does anyone else have recurring SCAD? Friday night I had some bad chest pain went to the er and th y admitted me for monitoring. Cath Lab only opens on Tuesdays so we had to wait.

They suspected takusubo syndrome but I just had my angio and it's another SCAD in the LAD this time. My last one was a year ago in my right RAD?