Re: Angina like pain caused by irritable esophagus

June 15, 2011

Calcium channel blockers are good for that.Â Such as Procardia.

From: josef <schmundt@...>

Subject: Angina like pain caused by irritable esophagus

Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 6:42 PM

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I just read this in one of the sites files and it seems like this may be causing

my shest pain rather then spasms.My pain is a sharp stabbing short duration

pain, that comes on about evry 30 seconds or so for around 5-10 minutes at a

time.I don't get any cramping as some paople describe with spasms.It's just a

sharp pain.They say benzodiazepines can help with this, but they are quite

addictive.I know my nitro glycerin works on it also because when it first

started happening I thought it was angina and treated it with that.After having

some cardiac tests I found that I had no issues there and that's when I started

looking at other causes.I am just hoping that they eventually go away as they

are quite bothersome.

June 22, 2011

josef wrote:

>

> ...My pain is a sharp stabbing short duration pain, that comes on

> about evry 30 seconds or so for around 5-10 minutes at a time.I don't

> get any cramping as some paople describe with spasms.It's just a sharp

> pain.

>

Mostly what people feel when they call it a spasm is just pain. Some

people may feel " cramping " but doubt if most people do. Often it is

mistaken for very bad heartburn from acid, or an ER may think you could

be having a heart-attack. Where and just how they feel differs though

from one person to the next.

> ....I know my nitro glycerin works on it also because when it first

> started happening I thought it was angina and treated it with

> that.After having some cardiac tests I found that I had no issues there

>

Nitro glycerin relaxes smooth muscles. The blood vessels and heart are

made of smooth muscles but so is part of the esophagus. It could be

relaxing the esophagus. There are other smooth muscles relaxers that are

used for this. Often they are calcium channel blockers CCBs.

notan

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