Can a vigour professional please address my condition issue (heart, chest) below?

I often get a tight feeling within my chest. I usually wake up in the night from it, and I hold to breath quicker and move vigorously in different positions including massaging my chest nouns to gain relief. There is no pain at all, only just a feeling of tightness. It is sometimes worse when I have alcohol (usually approx 6-9 units). I don't drink more then approx 10-12 unit a week.
Thanks in advance to any replies.
Answers:    You might also have esophagitis or gastritis (irritation & inflammation of the facing of the esophagus &/or stomach) which can be aggravated by drinking alcohol. If you insist on drinking this much, drink several glasses of water before you shift to bed and try taking a medication like a proton-pump inhibitor (omeprazole, esomeprazole, pantoprazole --in the US) or an H2 blocker like ranitidine to cut down of your stomach acid. Over time this irritation can front to stomach or esophagus cancer, so better advice is to cut down or eliminate the drinking and to eliminate fatty/fried foods, acids similar to orange/tomato and other foods that trigger your symptoms (for some it can be coffee, chocolate, dairy).
Your pain is not typical for panic since you are sleeping when it starts (not awake having a madness attack) and is also not typical for heart disease--where tightness develops w/ activity and is relieved by rest and the onset occurs most commonly after the age of 45. Source(s): Cardiology nurse practitioner
what you describe sounds like a hysterics attack, and yes alcohol can increase the frequency and severity of panic attacks. There are classes and medications available that can help you swot up to control your response to these attacks and end them quickly. Source(s): RN
It of course first desires to be determined whether or not this is cardiac related, You do need to see your Doctor, he will likely do blood work + 24 hour ECG trace. It does not nouns like a typical cardiac cause.

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So this happens when you are awake too? Re-edit your put somebody through the mill and describe exactly how often this happens, where you be aware of the tightness and how long it lasts, do you experience any other feelings at the same time? Do you hold Asthma or any other health complications? Does this only happen when you drink? Add more details please.

expected a panic episode which can feel very self-conscious. One other option is dilated cardiomyopathy, although you are the wrong age group, is there a family history? This can be related to heavy drinking, but this is usually the type of drinking that is heavy and prolonged over a extent of time. Do you have swollen ankles at all? Not all cardiac problems are reproduced on exertion.

I conjecture the latter option is unlikely though. So apart from breathlessness there are no other symptoms? See your GP, he will do blood work, check your thyroid levels and he should do a 24 hour ECG trace and it may also be worth doing a pulmonary function oral exam. Are you wheezing? Do you actually feel there is some constriction contained by your lungs preventing you from breathing as normal?

Alcohol can cause anxiety. Source(s): Cardiac Nurse


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