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Pericarditis
by: Chris Hoge on Fri, Oct 03 2008
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I’m a 60-year-old, healthy guy but with a bad family history of heart attacks. So yesterday I freaked out when I had an acute upper chest pain that was worse when I breathed in and worse still when I lay down. I immediately made an emergency appointment with my internist, who ran an EKG and immediately sent me to a cardiologist who immediately called an ambulance and off I went to the nearest hospital. Many tests later it turned out it wasn’t a heart attack at all but pericarditis

Nitro Glycerine tabs didn’t relieve the pain; nor did a morphine drip. What did work almost instantaneously was Ibuprofen. So now I’m home with a healthy heart (I think) and a new-found respect for a disease I never heard of before - pericarditis


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  • Pericarditis - by Chris Hoge - (Fri, Oct 03 2008)
    I’m a 60-year-old, healthy guy but with a bad family history of heart attacks. So yesterday I freaked out when I had an acute upper chest pain that was worse when I breathed in and worse still when I lay down. [more..]
  • Don’t treat Chest Pain as a Gas Pocket - by Ms.Joseph - (Wed, Oct 01 2008)
    My son 26 complained for 3 days with chest pain upper back and neck pain.I treated him for (gas)since the pain move to the back and neck, I brought Gas-X,Tums,7UP etc. [more..]

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