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Anyone have these same symptoms?
I am a 54 year old male in decent physical condition (I think). For 5 years now, about 4 to 6 times a year, I have an attack of chest pain that is so painful it drops me to my knees. It begins as a slight pain in my teeth (thats when I know it's coming) and about 30 seconds later it leads to excruciating pain in the center of my chest. It lasts from 3 to 10 minutes. I have had ECG, EKG, Stress test, MRI, Blood tests, ect and nothing has been found to be wrong. My Doctor says it is muscle pain or indigestion (he acts like I'm making it up) and nothing to worry about. I have all but given up on it and guess I will have to live with it (or die with it). It has only happened when I am NOT doing anything physical and NOT recently eaten. Anyone have similar problem that HAS been diagnosed?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Are you taking any indigestion remedies?
This might be causing your problem
When your stomach excretes high levels of gastrin.
Excess gastrin can be excreted when your stomach wall is thinned, nonfunctional, or atrophied. And, excess gastrin can also be excreted when you take an acid blocker drug like Prilosec when you have heartburn, acid reflux or GERD.
If you block the creation of HCl with a drug during your meal, your stomach is signalled to release gastrin to produce more acid. Since a drug is blocking acid creation, the G cells believe that not enough acid is being released into the stomach so more gastrin is released.
Look up Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
