Please help were so desperate
This post is for my boyfriend. Back in March, my boyfriend (26M) tried to go to sleep one night and when he was just about to fully fall asleep, he suddenly felt a feeling like if his “heart jumped” and it woke him up and left him breathless. (Sounded like a palpitation to me) He had never felt anything like that before in his life, but from that day forward everytime he was on the brink of deep sleep at night, he’d feel that again. Eventually he only found relief sleeping on his right side.
That continued since then for months, some days it would happen, some it wouldn’t. Since then, more symptoms have began. Now we can’t recall when everything else started exactly, but right now, he has the following symptoms, and has had them since March:
- Palpitation like feeling only when trying to sleep (it feels like his heart beats really hard against his chest suddenly, and just once
- Stronger than usual heartbeat throughout the day
- Extreme shortness of breath (he works manual labor almost every day and it’s become impossible to work because of the worsening shortness of breath, where he’s constantly involuntarily yawning to catch his breath, but he says hes “always chasing the next breath but can never catch it”
-extreme fatigue (can’t walk 10-20 minutes without feeling drained, dizzy, or out of breath, can’t stay awake all day, can’t even play video games for long because he’s too exhausted)
- chest tightness
- throat tightness
- loss of appetite (will only be hungry enough for one meal a day and not even a full meal)
- weird patterns only on both his feet (only symptom that started before march) which i’ll include a picture of, but im not sure if its related or unrelated
below is his info:
male, 26 years old, 5’9, 176 lbs, smoked cigarettes and vapes since he was ~15 years old, hasn’t smoked in about a week in fear of his symptoms
test they’ve done:
- electrocardiogram (many times) (results were fine)
- bloodwork (results were fine)
- chest xray of his lungs and heart (results were fine)
we’ve been to a couple pcp’s, one pulmonologist, and to the ER multiple times and nobody can tell him anything, and what pisses me off more than ANYTHING is that all of them dismiss his symptoms to ANXIETY after finding no results, when he has never in his life been an anxious person. his symptoms are real, please i am begging for somebody to provide any sort of insight or suggestions or possible diagnosis’s to check for with doctors, anything other than anxiety because jesus christ he does not have anxiety (as someone with CHRONIC ANXIETY who knows her partner extremely well)
if anybody has any other questions please let me know i’m happy to answer them all. his shortness of breath and fatigue are at such a terrible point, all he wants to do is sleep all day because its the only thing that brings relief, and he has no energy to even stay up and play video games. he doesnt want to go to an ER because they always say everything is fine, they dont do more than xrays and ekgs, and they say its anxiety, and they charge fucking 15k to tell him nothing is wrong.