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To: Gauguin who wrote (17145)	1/27/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I'll be sitting here as happy and relaxed as a clam and bang, like getting stabbed in the middle of my chest with a large, dull knife. I break out in a cold sweat, arms and jaw ache, at time the pain goes up one side of my head. I get the shakes, dizzy, disoriented and almost black out. Just like a heart attack except I'm not short of breath. I was told it was the arteries constricting like squeezing a hose. Some blood gets through, not like when a clot does you in. Haven't had one in 28 hours now but I'm still worried about when the next one is coming. Maybe they'll just go away. The stress test is an EKG after strenuous exercise. From what I gather you run on a treadmill until you almost drop and then they do the EKG. If that EKG doesn't match the resting EKG then there is a restriction in the blood supply to what ever area of the heart isn't pumping right. Something I'm really looking forward to, not. If they find a blockage you get to wear your shirt open and show off the scar from the quadruple or whatever bypass.

To: Gauguin who wrote (17145)	1/27/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I have had a similar experience in the past. The first time, I was working on a motion that had to be filed in a couple of hours, and Windows ate it, and the tension was so bad, I started having chest pains, and lay down for a few minutes, but then got up, finished the motion, while I talked to an advice nurse on the phone. (I belong to an HMO). They wanted me to come to the emergency room, and gave me nitro and an EKG, and the cardiologist said it was probably acid reflux and prescribed tagamet (antiacid). I have had it a couple of times since, a painful, constrictive feeling in the center of the chest, all the way to my jaw. I am fairly certain mine is either esophageal reflux or esophageal spasm, and note that since I started taking antibiotics long-term, it has not occurred. I have a book on Emergency Medicine, which states, "Increased esophageal muscle mass, coupled with degenerative changes of the vagus nerve, probably accounts for esophageal dysfunction. In spasm, normal peristaltic contractions are replaced by nonperistaltic repetitive contractions, usually in the lower third of the esophagus. Esophageal spasm may be caused by food, cold liquids, or may occur spontaneously, with exercise or with emotional excitement." It feels a lot like a heart attack. If you don't experience distress when engaged in physical activity, it seems less likely to be your heart.