Can You Help My Chest Pain After Surgery (from Sweden)?
QUESTION:
Hi!
I suffer from something bad. It affects my life to 100%. I can not work today. It may have to do with an operation I had. I suffered from blushing and had ETS {ETS=endoskopic thoracic sympthomatic} (ganglion T1, T2 and T3) done. Blushing got 90% better.
Some months later I felt this strange feeling in neck. As soon I was gonna do something demanding, study or something else, I felt the feeling coming. Today I can have it all day. I feel best on mornings. When I sit and write this I have this heavy feeling in neck. The more I stress the deeper it gets and eventually hurts badly. I simply dont manage anything. It could be globus hystericus but I dont think so. When I drink or eat I dont feel it at all. (when food/liquid is passing gullet).
It can begin when I have some heavy thought. I would say it is some sort of depression? I was a top student before and would like to go on study but this ruins everything. My thoughts about this is that the ETS have changed the way I react on stress from increased heartbeats to this horrible feelings.
What do you think?
Medications now: Edronax (noradrenaline/norepinephrine) helps not. BuSpar helped greatly against my anxiety Im also on Levaxin (thyroid hormone)
ANSWER:
You likely had nerve damage thats greatly affected by your mood state. RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) may be present. BuSpar working implies that the generalized anxiety disorder may be present. The key for you is obvious – you need all your diagnoses made and comprehensively treated.
The screening test I use for my patients may be useful in this regard. Epilepsy medications such as Tegretol (carbamazepine) and Neurontin (gabapentin) can be particularly useful for individuals with your problems.
