Help!! i have chest pain!! Is it my fibro?
jennyb213 - Sep 22nd, 2009 9:14 PM
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hello Im a 29 year old female and I suffer from pcos and fibromyalgia and i wanted to know since fibro effects your muscles, does it effect your heart?

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Fantod - Sep 22nd, 2009 10:23 PM

No - not directly. But, like any other chronic condition the stress of dealing with it has a cumulative effect.

I would suspect that your chest pain is probably caused by Costochondritis. This is a very common condition associated with Fibromyalgia (FMS). My recommendation would be that you get checked out for a possible cardiac problem just to be safe. Take care.


Rachel209 - Nov 12th, 2009 4:34 PM

No but it affects your chest and reflux which feels like your heart (always get chest pain checked). Ive been in A&E a few times with chest pain and quite severe, everytime they have given me an ECG my heart shows normal. But i suffer a lot with chest pains with FM.


Canada17 - Nov 12th, 2009 4:43 PM

It might not be your heart that is causing the chest pain. I suffer from chest pain as well. Sometimes it's a constant thing, sometimes is a sharp stabbing-like pain.

It was explained to me that the "trigger" points in the chest can cause referral pain into the rest of your chest so that's one possibility.

Also, make sure you are breathing correctly, a lot of us don't (FM and non-FM people alike). Breathe with your belly; your shoulders should not move up and down when you breathe in and out. Your belly should move in and out. It's a trick I learned from the book, "Fibromyalgia For Dummies".

When we learned to have good posture and "suck in our gut" that takes away from our ability to breathe properly. Take a look at the way a young child/baby breathes, always with the belly. Breathing with your "shoulders", as I call it, causes stress and strain to the muscles/tendons/ribs and that can causes a lot of pain, especially in people with FM. Breathing with your shoulders is something that is done when hyperventilating, which isn't natural breathing.

Also, watch your greasy food intake. I know if I eat too much fast food, I get pain in my chest, similar to heart burn but not the same. It's my gull bladder, although there is nothing clinically wrong with it, it doesn't like to process a lot of greasy food.

Hope this helps...


littlemom - Nov 18th, 2009 9:49 PM

I was recently diagnosed and I also have chest pain i'm 27