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What Causes Severe Heart Burn While Treating Anxiety And Migraine?

Hi.My wife is a 39yo female, she is around 5.4 and weighs around 180lbs. I know she is slightly overweight by medical standards but not extreme and I cannot understand what is wrong with her.She suffers with anxiety, auric migraines and last night she had severe heartburn (she doesn t get heartburn often, we had a party and ate way too much bad foods) mixed with a panic attack, at least that s how it seemed. I am positive that there is an underlying cause to her constant anxiety and monthly auric migraines.Auric migraines:She usually experiences these once a month, a week before her period. It is a headache that has come with numbness of her arms before, that mostly affects her vision. Anxiety: She is always anxious and worried. She over analyses everything and even stopped driving highways due to the way she feels when driving. This is heightened by fear of receiving the auric migraine while driving. Heartburn &a panic attack: She does not commonly get heartburn and last night, experiencing a strange sensation in her chest she then began to find difficulty breathing and found a tingling sensation in her arms. Please help, she has tried St Johns Wort and other ways to calm her nerves. She usually eats healthy (fresh fruit, fresh veg and all organic foods. She does slip from time to time having similar to a pizza delivery once a week. She takes supplements, often drinks smoothies and doesn t usually have a high blood pressure. (it has been known to get high, and she tries to keep it down). She used to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol but stopped drinking around 4 years ago and quit smoking 3 years ago. We use e-cigarettes now but our e-liquids are clean and pure being made entirely of plants. It is 100% vegetable glycerin with cold pressed fruit as the flavorings. She has also recently cut out stimulants such as coffee and sugar as she had noticed a connection between that and her anxiety.Can you please give me some insight on this,Kindest regards.
Mon, 17 Apr 2017
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Well chest pain,breathlessness and numbness of fingers and arm and her medical history suggest that it was a typical panic attack .breathlessness means she is hyper ventilating which result in decrease carbon dioxide (hypocapnea) in blood this in turn causes alkalosis in Blood pH .alkalosis then cause hypocalcemia which results in these funny numbness and tingling sensation.consult a psychiatrist for proper management and counselling
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What Causes Severe Heart Burn While Treating Anxiety And Migraine?

Well chest pain,breathlessness and numbness of fingers and arm and her medical history suggest that it was a typical panic attack .breathlessness means she is hyper ventilating which result in decrease carbon dioxide (hypocapnea) in blood this in turn causes alkalosis in Blood pH .alkalosis then cause hypocalcemia which results in these funny numbness and tingling sensation.consult a psychiatrist for proper management and counselling