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Message started by Bubsie on Dec 27^th, 2010, 2:25pm

Title: Ectopics Question Again..Sorry
Post by Bubsie on Dec 27^th, 2010, 2:25pm

About 5 minutes ago I had another painful ectopic, I hadn't had one for a good few weeks now! I've stopped worrying about them so much as RLR was so kind to explain them away to me.

It did make me have a little panic because it hurt my chest as well and I thought I was going to die, you know, the usual lol! So, it was all over in about 1 minute apart from the after effects of the adrenaline I felt rushing through me when it happend but it did hurt my chest a bit in that 1 minute too! The panic attack was pretty much instant too.

I feel fine now (bit shaky) but no chest pain, heart rate isn't fast, it's gone down already and can barely feel it! If the painful ectopic I just had was a sign of something more sinister, would I still have chest pain and not feel fine now?

Sorry to ask a smiliar question but I've got myself in a bit of a tizz again, any advice is truley appriciated. Thank you x

Title: Re: Ectopics Question Again..Sorry
Post by George88 on Dec 27^th, 2010, 10:56pm

Hi Bubsie,

I have also had painful ectopics in the past. The only time I've had a painful one is when my heart rate has already been going fast. The most painful one I had was when I had just walked up a hill, my heart rate was probably about 160 and then a pain in my chest hit me. It was a deep, crushing pain and it happened exactly with the skip that I felt, like I'd been hit in the chest. It lasted for a blink of an eye but it was very scary. I know that if it had been a prolonged pain it would have been very bad. I'd been having lots of trapped air in my stomach at the time and I think the skip was caused by that. I was terrified because it was actually deep and crushing, coming from inside my chest.

Another time I had a similar painful skip, where I felt a sharp, shooting pain come out of my heart and up the right side of my neck. Of course, I don't know if it did actually shoot out of my heart, but it felt different to any other pain in the chest I've ever felt. It felt like it originated from deeper inside my chest and almost "felt" like it came from my left ventricle. It's hard to explain, but it "felt" like the shape of that particular heart chamber... don't ask me how I know this. It was equally scary and I was convinced it was a problem. I believe it was actually a nerve, as I recall from somebody else's thread long ago, RLR said that the "shooting" pain coming from a persons chest and down his left arm was actually pain from a nerve and not the heart. Of course, the pain was not my heart... I am only 22 after all.

Several months later I had an echo, so I have no place worrying about my heart now given that I've been cleared in that department.

George.

Title: Re: Ectopics Question Again..Sorry
Post by Bubsie on Dec 29^th, 2010, 4:37pm

Thanks a lot for your reply George! I'm only 20 too but they still scare the hell out of me sometimes ;(

It's reassuring that you experience similar but not good that you do cuz I wouldn't wish it on anyone x