Chest pain and tiredness

[dej72]

I recently started feeling a lot more tired than usual, and have a dull pain right where my ribs attach to my sternum. I think it might be a pulled muscle, but does anyone know if a dissection can start slowly, with dull pain first (over a week or so)? Or is it always a sharp pain?

I'm pretty sure the tiredness is due to me going back on 50 mg of Atenolol per day after foolishly stopping it for 4 years (during which time my aortic root grew from 4.2 to 4.6cm.

 

[Ross]

Well with mine, there was no pain until it ruptured and then it was anything but dull. I wanted to badly to reach in and grab hold of whatever was causing it. Actually it was much like a heart attack. Nonetheless, if it's pain in the chest, get it checked out. If nothing over the years, I've learned this well.

 

[Mary]

I recently started feeling a lot more tired than usual, and have a dull pain right where my ribs attach to my sternum. I think it might be a pulled muscle, but does anyone know if a dissection can start slowly, with dull pain first (over a week or so)? Or is it always a sharp pain?

I'm pretty sure the tiredness is due to me going back on 50 mg of Atenolol per day after foolishly stopping it for 4 years (during which time my aortic root grew from 4.2 to 4.6cm.

If your arotic root is at 4.6cm, I'd have any source of chest pain looked at by a doctor.

 

[Georgia]

I have an acquaintance whose aneurism occurred over a couple of weeks - doc said the aorta ruptured layer by layer. He continued to work and function through most of it. And barely survived. So I think you should run, not walk to the doc.