I have chest pain and shortness of breath. Why do I get this?

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I have gone through your reports. (attachment removed to protect patient identity). Resting ECG and echo showed no abnormalities, and stress test does not show any abnormalities, although could not be completed. So, we cannot be certain that this is not cardiac pain, but appears to be less likely. So you should undergo further testing with either pharmacological stress test or CT (computed tomography) coronary angiography. Now normal BNP (brain natriuretic peptide) level is against cardiac cause for shortness of breath. Your thyroid shows significant abnormalities, you need to be on thyroid supplements like Eltroxin and should begin as soon as possible. Now do you get this chest heaviness at rest or on exertion? If this heaviness occurs at rest only then possibility of other causes like acid reflux should also be considered especially if you have other symptoms. You should try antacid then. If heaviness classically occurs on exertion and relieves with rest then strongly suggest cardiac cause only and then should undergo further cardiac resting. So possibility of non-cardiac cause should also be suspected, however, should undergo further cardiac evaluation. I hope this helps.

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It is fine to have Levothyroxine. So your symptoms are suggestive of cardiac cause. So, it should be treated as cardiac until further evaluation rule it out. You should avoid heavy activities and it is better to have Baby Aspirin along with Atorvastatin. Regarding ECG (electrocardiogram), it was mentioned normal in summary attached (attachment removed to protect patient identity). Whatever you are mentioning is machine generated report and is not reliable. So, as of now we will consider it normal. Also, previous attacks would be picked up on echo. But anyways, you will need further evaluation with CT coronary angiography or pharmacological stress test.