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[HorsesHorses]

Hello all

I've just had a vile couple of days. It all started Monday afternoon with teeth and jaw pain which then built up and developed into full blown agony in my chest area, shoulders, and squidgy bit at the bottom of my neck. If it wasn't for the fact that I've had this before and was also very gassy and burpy (still am) I would have called an ambulance convinced I was having a heart attack. I felt like I couldn't take a big breath in due to the pain and it was worse crouching or bending over. It seems better now and has calmed down loads but I'm still sore and weak as I've hardly eaten. I couldn't go to work yesterday or sleep Monday night due to the pain. I've booked a docs appointment but can't get in till early Jan.
The reason I'm posting today is for advice and support. This is my third episode like this since August and I'm trying to work out what it is and why it keeps happening.
My thoughts are it's my hiatus hernia playing up. I did have a lot of fruit juice, lemonade and half a bottle of wine over the weekend. I wondered if it was possibly gallbladder stuff (Dr Google is to blame for that one) but I haven't been sick so guessing not. Maybe it's just really bad GERD.
Any info from you lovely lot would be much appreciated. I'm worried but not really sick enough to go to a&e but need to stay calm till my appointment.
I turned down HRT in the summer but if this is going to happen frequently due to crazy ass hormones, I may have to reconsider.
Yours burpily
HorsesHorses
 

[kiltgirl]

I would be tempted to just go and get checked over before your Jan appointment. Even if it's nothing to worry about it will give you peace of mind?
It won't be a waste of anyone's time, having pain like that in your chest area must be horrible and needs to be checked even just to make you less anxious surely...I would get it checked before Christmas and get it out of the way x

[CLKD]

Heart attacks in women present differently to those that men suffer from.  I would see my Practice Nurse for advice if I couldn't get to see my GP.  Every time I get reflux with some of the symptoms you describe, I think 'heart attack' but it's always at the same time of night after I've eaten …….. usually between 11.30 p.m. and 3.00 a.m. …….. 2/3 Rennies and sitting up sorts it. 

[HorsesHorses]

Thanks ladies. I knew you'd reply Sparkle as I figured if I was suffering from this then you would be too  x. Excellent advice re calling to speak to a nurse CLKD. I tried that and actually managed to get a cancellation for the doctor on Wednesday -yay! So now I only have till then to wait. Both OH and I have decided that if I get another bad bout before then, then I'll go to a&e but I really don't like to go unless I feel it is a proper emergency otherwise I'm just filling up space and making waiting times longer for everyone else. Last time my OH went to a&e (and that was after weeks of agony) there was someone in the queue ahead of us because he had sunburn! What a total *#*#!!!
Anyhoo... the meds I used to be on Sparkle were Lansoprazole but I stopped due to the bloated side effect. Maybe that was a mistake. I'd rather be bloated than in the kind of pain I was in this week. I'm taking gaviscon again to tide me over till I see the doc. What was the result of your H pylori Sparkle?
Ps, I've got bad lower back pain today to add to it all and panicking about possible kidney infection now but maybe that's the wind and gas moving through my system. Have you had lower back pain with acid reflux and gerd and general digestion problems at all peeps?
HH
 

[CLKD]

Lanzso-whatever-it-is can sometimes cause more problems than it solves!

When I am in pain Himself rubs my back from the waist upwards.  Moves the wind around 

[CLKD]

It's because I eat too quickly or because I take my meds too close to going to bed 

[Yammy1]

I get these symptoms too and doc said its a combination of hiatus hernia, ibs and anxiety, but who wouldn't be anxious with chest pain? If I drink wine I am sure to have chest discomfort and weird aches and pains the next day.

[Yammy1]

Yeh, very annoying alright, if I splash out and have crisps , snacks or even chocolate it's agony with stomach bloating and pain, I also find I yawn a lot which I turn makes more wind which in turn causes more pain, a vicious circle

[Yammy1]

Sure is, and then the menopause on top of everything else, just while I'm here anyone else suffering with their sinuses,

[Yammy1]

I think I read somewhere on this site that hormones can effect your sinus, but mine definitely get worse after alcohol

[ancient runner]

i've just had gastritis for no particular reason that I could pin point except maybe stress. I'm usually on 10mg omeprazole for a hiatus hernia which has been upped to 40mg for 14 days. My symptoms were just like yours - awful, awful chest and rib pain. 

[HorsesHorses]

So, I've been to the docs now and she doesn't think it's cardiac related which is good but I'm having an ecg tomorrow just to be sure, and she put me on a month's worth of Lansoprazole and wants to see me after that. So pretty standard and what I expected really. Am really hoping the tabs don't bloat me badly especially as it's Christmas soon. Nevermind, hopefully it'll work and I won't have the vile oesophageal spasms/gerd attacks like last week. She didn't seem interested in talking Menopause and hormones, what a surprise!
 

[HorsesHorses]

I'm on the 30mg a day Sparkle also topping up with Gaviscon. Doc said if I can take this for a month then she might put me on it long term afterwards. She dismissed any menopause and hormone chat and said she wanted to try and treat this first separately and talk about menopause later on. Seems bonkers to me to put it off, mind you, I am the one suffering so it's easier for her to wait tut tut. Good idea re booking a double appointment. I think I'll try that when I go back and try again with the menopause talk. I'm yet to find a GP who knows enough about it to want to discuss it and help! They don't see it as being linked and how I was perfectly fine before all this menopause business started, they just see it as separate issues but obviously after all the tests I've had showing extremely low oestrogen, I'm convinced its all connected and my life suddenly started getting difficult the minute my hormones started playing silly buggers! I did explain how my previous GP offered me hrt but to no avail. Oh well, I'm getting somewhere hopefully albeit slowly!
HH x

[HorsesHorses]

Hehe, yes, similar here. All I'm hoping for personally is a wind free, pain free discomfort free Christmas. Don't think it's going to happen though.  Last night hubby and I were discussing 'splashing out' on a second bottle of Gaviscon for the bedroom for when I've forgotten to take it and don't want to get out of bed in the cold and go downstairs to the kitchen again lol! Oh dear, simple pleasures.
HH x

[Maryjane]

My guts are definitely getting better , since I've been seeing a nutritionist upper burning almost gone and reduced by 50%. However you do need to be very strict