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Re: Signs of heart damage from apnea?

Posted by jks on June 29, 2002 at 02:38:17:

In Reply to: Signs of heart damage from apnea? posted by Very_Fatigued on June 26, 2002 at 01:50:45:

The way you describe the painful cramps and twinges doesn't sound much like cardiac pain. The same area can have pain from GERD or musculo-skeletal pain. Women tend to have musculoskeletal pains like that over the heart area along the breastbone. No one has really figured out why women do and men generally don't.
Your lower diastolic BP is not a problem. In fact your BP is great!! I'm not aware of any situation that a low diastolic pressure would be a sign of problems. If so maybe 20-30 with a lower systolic BP -- even then the low systolic would be the proimary problem (90 or less).
I also have some numbnes in three fingers of my right hand. Varies as to fingers affected and which side. Turns out to be from pinched nerves where they come off the spinal cord, which happens in some folks like me when the muscle connectiion to the spine is too close to the nerve coming out. When I'm careful to use bothstraps of my backpack, and keep my purse from the right shoulder less than maximum weight, it gets better. (Keep the muscles along that part of the spine from getting more built up.)
If you have a normal resting EKG, and a normal BP I think cardiac problems from OSA is very unlikely. The first sign of cardiac problems from OSA is high BP. Chest pain caused by the heart is from the heart muscle getting less circulation than it needs from vessel spasm or sclerotic vessles in the heart. The way to test this further would be a stress test. First, though, you should treat the OSA. Then check into whether the pains are from GERD. Then maybe a repeat EKG and stress test if the pains continue, and GERD was ruled out.
Good luck!

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