Chest Pain During Period with POTs

Erinnewbold

222d

Hey y’all. Does anyone with POTs get periods of chest pain during their period? Or in general? Like it feels like your chest wall muscles are burning? And it kind of moves around to different Muscles. Also in your legs? It’s been happening for a few days and I want to make sure I’m not crazy.

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Chest pain

Recurrent Syncope

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)

Generalized pain

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    • ChronicIllnessBabe

      210d

      Me!

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    • Neuco

      222d

      100%. The whole reason I finally got diagnosed was I kept having episodes where it felt like I was having a full on heart attack- tachycardia, chest pain, pain down left arm, difficulty speaking/breathing. Whole nine yards.

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      • Erinnewbold

        222d

        @Neuco Thank you so much for responding! My Mom is a cardiac nurse and she has been trying to talk me down about it because I don’t have many actual symptoms. I needed to hear this from someone who has the same thing

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        • Neuco

          222d

          @Erinnewbold all the cardiac nurses at the ER treated me the same way. It is affecting your heart, but you aren't in any danger. That helped me to learn. It is your heart that you're feeling. But during the really bad spikes all you can do is play down and stay calm. Breathe through it and wait for your HR to drop again.

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      • Erinnewbold

        222d

        @Neuco is there anything in particular that you do or use to help?

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        • Neuco

          222d

          @Erinnewbold Sleeping propped up on pillows, drinking a lot of water, increasing my sodium intake by a lot. I have an emergency jar of salted nuts in my car for syncope episodes.

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      • Erinnewbold

        222d

        @Neuco and did this ever last for like a whole week before. Sorry if I am asking a lot of questions. I just have bad anxiety

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        • Neuco

          222d

          @Erinnewbold My last out that got my diagnosed lasted from January 28th until the middle of May

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      • pippydogduo

        212d

        @Neuco that's exactly how I was diagnosed too

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    • MrsKoolWhip

      212d

      Yeah, I when I'm standing for a long time I get chest pain that is almost unbearable.

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    • Libertys_Girl

      211d

      Yes all the time. My boyfriend just makes me take a deep breath for a couple minutes and it usually goes away on its own, but in the meantime it's ridiculously painful

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    • ChronicIllnessBabe

      210d

      Me!

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