[Closed] Chest pain - How worried should i be?

I'd be asking a doctor about it, rather than uninformed idiots like us .

We've got no idea of your age, general fitness, lifestyle, weight...

There are a lot of causes of chest pain,but it is a warning sign that you should take seriously. Go and see your GP if you are in any doubt.

True, but it takes weeks to get a referral to someone who can do full tests.
So in the mean time I was wondering if others had had similar to give me a clue what it might be.

This is your Lucky day I know the exact answer to your question......

You should be worried enough to go to your Dr soon and try to avoid repeating anything that sets off the pain till you have.

Chest pains and you're concerned? Go to a&e. Get bloods obs and ECG done.

True, but it takes weeks to get a referral to someone who can do full tests.

Have a walk down to your local walk in centre and get seen there. They'll be able to do an ECG and arrange for blood tests to be done if they deem it necessary. They'll be able to start the ball rolling for the referral process if it's needed.

If you're getting chest pain on exertion then it needs to be investigated sooner rather than later.

Ring the gp, and ask for an emergency appointmet, then they will refer you quicker to a hospital if they think something is up.there are also drop in centres and your pharmacist/chemist.

See your GP even it takes a week you'll get better advice than Google or a forum, ring every morning see if there's any cancellations or if there's a sit and wait option.

Or visit a Walk in Centre

Generally chest pain in a single spot is a muscle problem. If it's harder to pin down and more general chest pain may be more serious.

But that's rule of thumb stuff, if you're worried see a doc and make sure.

I get sharp chest pains often as a result of pulled muscles because I clench my jaw a lot (ptsd).

I had chest pains but I'd been doing alot of pec-deck work at the gym (strained muscles). IF you haven't been doing this I cant think of anything else that could give you chestpains- GET TO TO A ****ING DOCTOR ASAP.

Don't do this for yourself and procrastinate as if you do keel over now you'll be a bloody selfish bloke as you'll leave a lot of upset and devasted loved ones behind.

Sorry to be harsh, do it for others and dont procrastinate dude.

Not nearly enough info, OP, to say anything other than get yourself to GP or walk-in centre asap as advised above.

If it starts after a minute of walking, walk for a minute before you arrive at the walk-in centre and you will be presenting with active chest pain........you won't have to wait long before they see you!

I can see a theme to these replies...
I should have said I've got the ball rolling with the docs. I've had a blood test at a walk-in and am waiting to see my doc to see what he wants to do.

I'm pretty fit (I do XC races and am a reasonably good runner) and in my 40s. Never had anything like this before.
I do press ups every day. I'll give those up to see if that helps. Though I've been doing them for months.

Good to hear you've started to find out.

I could dish out advice but as I know nothing other what you've briefly posted and I can't do any observations it would be wrong for me to do so.

Make notes of when it happens, what brought it on, what it felt like and what eased it.

If there is any suspicion that you have a heart condition it won't take weeks.

Carry on getting it checked.

My mum had chest pains and breathlessness when exerting herself for years and though nothing of it right up to the point that she had a heart attack. Fortunately she was OK - it turned out she had a heart defect where an artery went underneath instead of over the top of another one so when the heart started working harder it effectively shuts down.

When you fart does it go away? 😉

I should have said I've got the ball rolling with the docs. I've had a blood test at a walk-in and am waiting to see my doc to see what he wants to do.

Worth it for Hora's pec-deck words of wisdom however.......and you have been doing press-ups 😆

True, but it takes weeks to get a referral to someone who can do full tests.

I went to A&E with chest pain - straight to front of queue and within 10 mins I'd had full ECG, blood tests, X rays, multiple blood pressure readings.

I went to A&E with chest pain - straight to front of queue and within 10 mins I'd had full ECG, blood tests, X rays, multiple blood pressure readings.

OP isn't currently having chest pains he's had them on the odd occasion.

Have you recently stroked a cat? Sounds suspiciously like cat aids to me 😈

Every hospital I've worked in runs a rapid access chest pain clinic, which GPs can refer to and will see you within a week with that story. They will have access to tests on the day (and more complex tests that they can fast-track you into) that will help with the diagnosis (whether it's cardiac or not).

Phone your GP surgery now, and get an appointment in the next day or two. Tell them you don't have chest pain now but have done in the last couple of days (if this is true) and they should give you an emergency appointment. Don't just ignore it.

Hannah
A cardiologist
(6134750 for any GMC bods interested)

Or it's cat AIDS

(please ignore previous GMC number)

[i]OP isn't currently having chest pains [/i]

Run to a&e so he is?

More seriously;

no one qualified to give any advice beyond 'get a professional diagnosis' is going to post anything on here beyond 'get a professional diagnosis'.

My wife has an arythmic heart beat and occasional chest pains and ended up on a running machine at the hospital being given adrenaline to see if they could make it 'go wrong'. Upshot was she's ok but it was worth getting it checked.

I had a spell of intermittent bad chest pains for a week or so, left side only. Went to see the doc who couldn't detect a problem then the next day came up in a lovely shingles rash on the LHS of my back, which then proceeded to spread over my left chesticle.

My youngest has shingles at the mo...

Or it's cat AIDS

That's what I was diagnosed with, only the Bad type. I was given 60 years to live, a bottle of aspirin and told to go home and die (slowly).

My sister has cats... Now I am worried.

Is a baby robin impaled in your chest?

I had exactly those symptoms- pain in my chest, throat, shoulder, arm etc, coming on within a minute of beginning exercise and then going once I'd warmed up. It was Angina, but 7 years later I'm still here courtesy of 3 stents and a double bypass.
Yours could be anything but best get it checked out.
Once the missus had dragged me down the doc's it was only a couple of days before I was on the treadmill. Once they'd discovered it wasn't anything exciting further tests seemed to take forever.

😆 woody.

legolam

Hannah
A cardiologist

They only call "Hot" girls Hannah right? 😉

(I accept this may or may not help the OPs possible heart condition...........)

Er, sure?

Have a heart attack in Newcastle and you can find out... 😉

(Please don't, I like a quiet life and I'm quite fond of you lot)

legolam - Member
Or it's cat AIDS

(please ignore previous GMC number)

😆

I'm going to start advising people that it's cat aids at work

Oh and what max torque said

Wd 41?

@ legolam

Is that really your GMC number?
I've never seen anyone looking remotely like a Hannah at FRH PPCI 😉

I had this and had all the tests with no diagnosis. Dr took a punt and advised giving up caffeine, problem solved in a week. Withdrawal symptoms were crappy though.

Not saying it will work for you so get yourself checked out but it might not be serious.

24 FRH (in reply to Drac)

Woody - pretty certain it's my number, I'd choose someone with more money if I was going to impersonate them! I've just moved from JCUH. Should we have met?

Ah right.

Not been to either for ages anyway.

WD41? Is that like WD40 but better?

Can't believe no ones said it yet....

I bagsy your bikes when you die!

WD41? Is that like WD40 but better?

It's one better. Most guys are spraying away at WD40, but where do you go from there? Where? Now, when we need that little extra push over the top...

Seriously, glad you're getting it checked out OP. Better safe than sorry, and all that.

Sure it's organ pain? Might just be muscle based, pain in the spine can spread to front of chest. WD40... WTF, where is this going.

@ legolam
Unlikely we've met as I rarely get to either JCUH or FRH these days as I work on a RRV.