For over a week I’ve been suffering from shortness of breath and chest tightness/pain. I have had past anxiety problems, but I’ve been on Zoloft to treat it, and haven’t had any attacks since I started it over a year ago.
I tried taking Buspirone which normally calms me down, but it only made my breathing more labored. I’ve tried to be unconcerned, but I’ve never had a constant anxiety attack and trouble breathing at all times of the day, and since I’m 3 months post-partum, I’m wondering if it might be a pulmonary embolism? I had some unexplained pain in my left calf muscle about 6 weeks after giving birth, but it went away after an hour or so, and I’ve had no issues other than the current problems.
I took a trip to the ER last night and the did a D-Dimer test and a chest X-ray, but I’m worried that it isn’t enough to completey rule out a problem? Any help would be great!
I was under the impression that a chest x-ray often misses signs of PE and a CT scan is much more effective. Should I contact the internal medicine speiclaist I was referred to tomorrow? I called my OB, but they told me to go to the ER if I was having those sypmtoms…which I’ve already done.
I’d like to not have to wait until some sort of awful symptoms show up.

I woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare and had sharp pain in my stomach and around my chest. I didn’t think anything of it, and spent the rest of the night laying on my back. When I awoke hours later, the pain was still very crampy and spots on my chest were cramping on-and-off (it was up towards the top of the chest and in between my left side and left shoulder). I got up, started getting ready and the pain was gone. The pain on my stomach is right below the center of my sternum. After a mere seconds (no more than a minute), the chest cramps disappeared and I felt fine. I still am having on-and-off stomach pain in that same spot since, but nothing as bad as it was in the middle of the night. I was recently treated with having anxiety attacks and was prescribed with hydroxyzine (10mg) and take levothyroxine (88mcg) for my hypothyroidism. I missed my morning dose of hydroxyzine the day before. Any ideas on if this is just a case of anxiety or could it be heart-related?
I am a 24-year-old male. I am not obese and work as a server, so I’m constantly on my feet. I had an EKG and chest x-ray done about two months ago…came back fine. My doc prescribed me the hydroxyzine and told me to slowly take myself off it, which I’ve been trying to do.

I woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare and had sharp pain in my stomach and around my chest. I didn’t think anything of it, and spent the rest of the night laying on my back. When I awoke hours later, the pain was still very crampy and spots on my chest were cramping on-and-off (it was up towards the top of the chest and in between my left side and left shoulder). I got up, started getting ready and the pain was gone. The pain on my stomach is right below the center of my sternum. After a mere seconds (no more than a minute), the chest cramps disappeared and I felt fine. I still am having on-and-off stomach pain in that same spot since, but nothing as bad as it was in the middle of the night. I was recently treated with having anxiety attacks and was prescribed with hydroxyzine (10mg) and take levothyroxine (88mcg) for my hypothyroidism. I missed my morning dose of hydroxyzine the day before. Any ideas on if this is just a case of anxiety or could it be heart-related?
I am a 24-year-old male. I am not obese and work as a server, so I’m constantly on my feet. I had an EKG and chest x-ray done about two months ago…came back fine. My doc prescribed me the hydroxyzine and told me to slowly take myself off it, which I’ve been trying to do.