What actual diagnostic tests have they done for either angina or GERD?
Sorry for the delay getting back to you. Very long story short, please forgive me. I pitched up at the hospital because I had been suffering from a weird sensation in the middle of my chest for two days. No radiating pain, no breathlessness, no sharp pain, not even a pressure type pain just an odd sensation.
They did all the blood tests and x-rays. We have a family history of heart disease so I am pretty clued up on the tests they do. I have had high blood pressure for decades hitting the 200’s that always panics the medical profession. They decided I may have angina in A&E and gave me the spray under the tongue. This shot my blood pressure up to new dizzying heights and gave me a headache but did nothing to relieve the strange ache I had. They admitted me for safety’s sake.
Then discharged me several hours later having dosed me with a BP drug that is known to higher blood sugar readings in diabetics (sighs).
Moving on the BP drug was changed the following day by my GP after I contacted them by eConsult.
Since then I had a weird few hours one day where my BP shot up over 200 again, had me shaking on the inside and feeling generally off it and unstable......couldn’t get hold of anyone medical then it all suddenly stopped.
Eventually I managed to speak to a GP .....I requested a couple of other blood tests to check for inflammation/infection/and another one for my heart. Every GP/A&E doctor I have spoken to or been involved with said all the tests had come back with good results, all heart related ones pointed to whatever the odd sensation was it was not heart related. Because of the weird few hours I had I was referred to a cardiologist, this was not a great experience when he phoned me. He mixed me up with someone else, didn’t listen to me and decided over the phone I had angina, and is arranging for the usual angiogram etc etc. Despite my symptoms NOT being angina like at all.
I do however tick nearly all symptom boxes relevant to GERD and having read and spoke to many people online who suffer from GERD I honestly believe I have this but have not been able to speak to my GP about this yet in detail, although one brief conversation resulted in the offer of anti-acids.
I have decided for now NOT to go ahead with the angio and am awaiting a telephone appointment with my GP to discuss the GERD possibility.
I have to add I do not have any heart (angina) like pain now, never breathless, no constricting feeling etc. Although I am over weight and wouldn’t break out in a jog anytime soon.
