Re: chest pains

Kathleen Simon (gatewayprinting(AT)email.msn.com)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:19:59 -0000

My Mother also was having very bad chest pains and the Doctors did a chest
X-Ray and nothing came up so they did a MRI of the spine and found out she
had a compound fractor in the spine, since she is on steriods her bones are
very brittle. Her pain was right in the center of her chest. Kathleen
-----Original Message-----
From: Aurore <aurore(AT)erols.com>
To: JHarper33 <JHarper33(AT)aol.com>; Rowton7244(AT)aol.com <Rowton7244(AT)aol.com>;
tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com <tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: chest pains

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>Beth and Barbara,
>
>Why don't you go get checked out? When I was having chest pains, they just
>kept getting worse because I was so stressed out worrying about what was
>wrong. In my case, it turned out just to be stress. It could have been
>angina, which does need to be dealt with. Another possibility, very
common,
>is mitral valve prolapse, which is usually benign but painful when you're
>stressed out. The third possibility, which is what I have, is just stress
>in the muscles of the chest.
>
>Go for the peace of mind! I've been feeling better since I found out (last
>Friday). Before that, it seemed worse and worse because I was so worried.
>
>Good luck,
>Aurore
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