Chest Pains

Last Wednesday I had my yearly, or at least it feels like it, bout of indigestion. The sort that doubles you over in pain.

I did what I normally do, take some Gaviscon and let it settle, it worked, but the next day I had some pain higher up in my chest, I was worried but figured it was an after effect of the indigestion.

I had another bout last Friday that settled quickly, and in the following days I had the odd acheing pain in my chest over my heart once or twice a day.

Interestingly I never had it during or after Aikido, but I was a bit worried.

Today I went for a brisk walk to lunch, about 700m, and got the pains again. At lunch it went away, but on the return walk I got it again.

I called 13HEALTH and they said I needed to go to hospital based on my symptoms, they offered to send an ambulance, I said no, and I caught a bus up to the Mater from work.

I went to emergency triage and they admitted me straight away, I was there for about 2 hours all up, in that time they put a drip in, took blood, did a chest XRAY and an ECG. They also took my obs, family history and medical history.

At the end of it all they said there wasn't anything wrong with me, maybe it was muscle pain.

I feel a bit silly, but better safe than sorry, and I reckon if anyone has any doubts call 13HEALTH and get some advice, they can help to clarify things for you and makes it easier to make a decision like going to a doctor or not.

The clean bill of health is a relief, but the process has flustered me I think, since being up there I am getting the chest pains again, but it's probably psychosomatic

At least now I can go gung-ho with Aikido to be ready for my brown belt grading.