They include chronic migraines that have lasted years usually coming and going, but acid reflux, fatigue for no reason, I'm asking for my mother who is overweight..she won't go to the doctor and she always gets chest pains , but if she did go to the doctor, what could they do if she was and/or on the path to a soon heart attack? How could they find out?
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It's a very typical bunch of psycho-somatic symptoms - taken all together. The headaches, reflux, fatigue "for no reason", overweight. It's from a lifetime of psychological tension. Of course mostly people don't believe this and keep insisting that some magic pill will cure them. But these are the sorts of things that doctors can never treat - they can't "find anything wrong".
And no - they don't point at a heart attack - although she could have one, I suppose.
Don't expect much from a doctor on all this stuff. They can test her heart - but it's never all that conclusive either.
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There are many causes for Chest pain that range from Coronary heart disease to psychogenic. Have they checked her for an AORTIC ANEURYSM? This is caused from a weakness in the wall of the aorta where it comes off the heart, it can be from birth or caused from an injury. Extremely dangerous condition to have, it can rupture and the person could bleed to death in minutes. Often the ECG results will read normal in an uncomplicated aortic aneurysm and it can be missed. The best tests to begin with for diagnosing would be a Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or a computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest. The symptoms for an high aortic arch aneurysm are light-headedness, weakness, Shortness of breath, Rapid heart beat, sweating, numbness or tingling in the arm, Chest pain or pressure and loss of consciousness (fainting). This is a very dangerous thing to have, especially if he is having discomfort.