Heart area symptoms and conditions

I am 44 and getting muscle cramps in both lower back sides,upper back
under armpits also what feels like the heart area and stomach area
everywhere I guess, mental confusion rashes,bloating pink eye and
headaches every day. I take meds every day for pain like fioricet,Prozac,
and xanax I've taken these for many years.I'm not sure what this could be
but I do also take omeprazole 20 mg.every other day just to keep the
acid reflux down.how do you explain to a doctor all the problems I could
keep on naming them maybe its just getting old.BUT I DOUBT IT

I am 39-year-old very active healthy female. I can say I am tolerant to most drugs I have taken in my life so far. However, I took Levaquin yesterday and today, 750 mg per day for five days for the sinus infection, I felt so horrible starting 2-3 hours after I first took it. I felt nausea, headache, extremely fatigue, stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting, lose sleep.I also felt painful in my heart area this morning......After checking on the internet today, I know I was poisoned by Levaquin. I felt more horrible that my doctor did not tell my the side effect even when I asked this question specifically when was given the prescription. I am not allergy to other antibiotics, and I had no clue why the doctor would think this medication is necessary to me. I decided to stop Levaquin, and also not to see that doctor again. Please be careful to pick your doctor, some are very dumb and cannot even treat a cold.

I started taking Levaquin 500mg on Jan. 28,2009 after having it prescribed fby my cardiologist for a lung infection, after he conducted blood, urine and heart ecosonogram tests over the three previous days. I had an infection, everything else was fine. I am 55 and have mitral valve prolapse and have been treated 20 years ago for atrial fibrillation, hence my primary care doctor is a cardiologist. Willingly starting the treatment of one tablet a day, I noticed insomnia the first and subsequent nights, tiredness and probably depression as my friend and wife said I was acting a bit "needy" and anxiety. My family commented on my anxiety as did my friend who I only email and phone. My infection noticeably improved so I was feeling better and marked it up to having been sick, until the 4th day when I starting having shortness of breath and I noticed a feeling I knew well but had not experienced in 20 years, my heart area hurt in a mild way and I felt flutters, just enough that I pulled the medical paper for the Levaquin and read the side effects bar. Low and behold all my side effects were listed. "Rare but could happen in patients predisposed to heart problems" On Monday Feb 2nd I called the doctor with my concerns but he assured me that is was not the Levaquin but he made me an appointment to check things out. So one week into the 10 day course of treatment I had another checkup only to find an erratic heart beat but on the slow side not the pounding which is normally associated with this problem. So now my doctor "who is a friend" so I am not a number, wants me to start on an anticoagulant"Coumadin" to ease the pumping in my heart and then further exams and medication for "life" for my fibrillation! Problem now is I have one more pill of the Levaquin of the 10 pill series which I "should take in 10 minutes ( I just found this site)! I have decided not to take any more test or medication of any kind until I feel this Levaquin is completely out of my body. Does anyone have any ideas how long that could be? P.S. My heart still feels like it did earlier in the week!

This is a total nightmare and i need advice! I was on Lamictal for a year and about six months into my health began to slowly deteriorate. It started with shortness of breath and heart palpitations and eventually attacked every system of my body. My symptoms are muscle pain, spasms and knots to the point that i can't turn my neck sometimes, joint pain (mostly knees), stabbing floating pain everywhere, headaches, frightening tingling in my extremities and a few times my entire body, sore throat, flu-like feelings, stomach cramps, bloating and heartburn. The list goes on. I have been off of it now for two weeks. My psychiatrist has never seen this type of reaction before and is not convinced it is the Lamictal. I have been to every single type of doctor and the ER twice, had extensive lab work, CT scan and two MRIs. I have been off Lamictal now for two weeks and am not feeling much relief. I am so scared and frustrated and please need advice. Has anyone else experienced this? Does it ever go away? I feel like I am literally living a nightmare with no-one to turn to for advice because no-one seems to know ANYTHING!!!!

had bypass surgeryon dec 24 2003 . was put on 40mg of nusimivastatin at that time Starting having pressure in chest and around heart area in dec of 2004 had a barium xray done had start of hiatias hernia. Still having pressure when starting to walk in mornings went and had streess and ct scan every thing was okay with heart Nov 2006 still having pressure in chest area had an angiogram done all sutures and valves were okay. No one could detect what was causing pressure. Pressure was getting worse the past 8 months. In middle of july 2007 pressure was putting stress on heart and hernia and wind pipe. It felt over time a had a ballooon on my essapgagus. Got off simivastatin after having all this pressure and within 2 days half the pressure has receded and havenot felt better in 2yrs glennjack geejaa@sasktel.net

This is an update. I have stopped Lisinopril 4 days ago. By the way I forgot to mention that I did experience hair loss after being on 20 mg since February, Hairloss started end of May, which of course made me anxious to the point I did not want to take a shower anymore or wash my hair!! So this is when I started on Zoloft, which I have taken for the past five years, but only 25 mg every other day. This was keeping my worrying in check and was all I needed. But since February after starting Lisinopril my friend mentioned that I seemed to start worrying about every little thing and she does not even recognize my usual upbeat self. So then when the hair loss started I thought it was all in my head and went to the counselor and upped my Zoloft to 100 mg a day. Then in June my doctor said 10 mg of Lisinopril would be enough and sure enough, my hair loss stopped after about two weeks. I thought it was due to the Zoloft, that I just did not count my hair anymore, but now reading all the side effects I realize that I was not crazy at all! What a relief! So since Monday no more Lisinopril and Zoloft down to 25 mg for the past week. Last night was the first night I only woke up once really short, noticed a rapid heart beat, but only in my heart area, not all over my body, and went back to sleep. I also experienced on Lisinopril those vivid dreams which I woke up from and felt emotianally drained. I do take a Multivitamin, garlic pills and twice a day a table spoon of apple cider vinegar. So far my blood pressure is about 125 over 80 and instead of waking up with a pulse of 95, it went down this morning to about 84. I feel more energetic and in general way more upbeat. I hope I will keep feeling better and I am glad I did research on all those medications. It made me want to come off all meds and try natural approach, diet and more exercise.
I will keep you updated.

I am realy glad you all have came forward about all these side effects because i am on toprol XL 50mg a day for high blood presure and irregular heart beat it seems that my heart starts to beat irregular when my pulse gets into the 110 beats a minute to about 121 beats a minute and the Toprol sure is a life saver when it comes down to slowing my heart rate it will slow my heart rate down to about 85 beats a minute,but as for the rest of this medicine i have bad side effects too, i get realy bad chest pain on my left side around my heart area and go all around my chest left and right side and i have real bad panic attacks at night they are so bad that i cannot sleep, sometimes i feel my heart take off beating very rapidly and then back to normal it always realy scares me when this happens.thanks for you all posting your experiences about this Toprol drug it has realy eased my mind now I was realy thinking there was something realy wrong with my heart or body, now i know it's Toprol doing this too me thanks again.

I started Yasmin a week ago, and it has been the longest week I've ever lived. The first 2 days were okay, but after that I was constantly overwhelmed with paranoid fears such as the possibility of blood clots, heart attack, and stroke. I would feel random pains all over my body at different times. I felt a lot of stiffness and discomfort in my upper chest lung/heart area. I had pains in one calf one day, and the entire time i was unable to sleep. I would wake up after 2 hours having a panic attack. One night I woke up and honestly thought i was having a heart attack. I got up to go to the bathroom after trying to calm down and fainted on the floor. somehow my shoulder got cut in the process. After that happened, I couldn't smell or taste anything for about 2 days. Normally when i had fainting problems (which were due to hypoglycemia) i would only temporarily lose sight, hearing and feeling, not smelling and tasting- and no senses just went missing that way. I honestly thought i had a stroke.

After a few more days of putting up with this when i thought i could just hold on a little longer and get used to it (i'm on it to prevent ovarian cysts which i always get huge ones of) I was feeling better. But last night i heard what sounded like a single, horribly loud clap, and my head has been hurting worse and worse ever since. my dog did not hear anything, if he had, he would have at least perked his ears, but he did nothing so i know the sound wasnt real. at this point i'm afraid a blood vessel must have ruptured in my brain. i will never take Yasmin again.

I had a hard time breathing and it felt like I couldn't get any air. I also felt like my chest was tightening up around my heart area. Does this medication have any sulfa in it? I am very allergic to sulfas.

I have been very ill for almost three months now. I kept feeling like I was going to pass out at work - the same time everyday. Chest pain - under my left boob (around my heart area). Went to doctor's just before Xmas, he took my blood pressure and rushed me up to the hospital. Had ECG, Chest X-ray, Blood tests, but all of them came back okay?! Have since has an ultrasound, and am booked in for a 48 hour heart monitor in a few weeks. Off my own back, I stopped taking the pill when they couldn't find anything wrong, and I read the side effects, and this was on the 26th december. The feeling faint has almost totally gone (apart from when I start to panic about feeling faint), but I still have this 'stitch/hunger pain' feeling around my heart area everyday. You feel like it's gone, and then the pain happens. I am scared that it's something serious ( have little faith in doctors anyway). I have had two periods since coming off of it, and yes, they may be heavier, but rather that then feeling like you are going to die. I am not exaggerating. At one point over xmas, I told my boyfriend to call an ambulance because of the hot, numbness in my legs. The second yasmin free period I had, was a week or so ago, and I did feel a bit faint during. When I last saw my doctor, I explained what I had done, and he wouldn't commit himself, he just said that it could be Yasmin. I'm getting married in November, but until I know that I haven't got something seriously wrong, it's hard getting excited. If I have permanent damage from this pill, surely I can sue?

I have taken this drug over the last three years for prostrate infections - if you get a bad case of prostitus you might end up taking it for 30 days as the prostrate is a dense organ and this is the only drug I've found that actually eliminates the bacteria causing the condition.

Recently I have started to develop more side effects to the drug than the usual joint pain - as like the others all my doctors said it wasn't the levofloxin but in reality it was - my recent symptoms are chest pain WHEN DOING SIMPLE EXERCISE LIKE LONG WALKS (external I have no cardiac problems) - over the heart area, in the front center where the ligaments attach and in the left and right shoulders plus center of my back, the pain is so bad it causes shortness of breath.

You can do real joint damage if you exercise while taking this drug and injuries come easy and with no warning. Joint pain is the normal and it takes about a month of flushing your with system with water for the effects to begin to diminish.

The instructions indicate that it should be taken with lots of water - DON'T OVERLOOK THIS WARNING AND TAKE LOTS OF WATER WHEN ON THIS DRUG AND YOU WON'T HAVE AS MUCH TROUBLE WITH THE SIDE EFFECTS - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND I DON'T THINK THEY STRESS THIS ENOUGH.