MarianRhiannon

What I get are sharp hot pains like lightning that flashes from my low back up the sides of my rib cage, then circles under my arms around to the front of my sternum. Almost feels like that pain you get when you bang your elbow and hit your funny bone. It's definitely hot, sharp and acute. It lasts for about 15 minutes to half an hour then fades down into a dull pain that makes me sensitive to touch.

I was diagnosed several years ago with supraventricular tachycardia and even wound up having a cardiac ablation because of it. I was put on Cardizem for that. It's been helpful. I was recently also diagnosed with POTS, which apparently I've had for decades and no one caught it because I never actually fainted. My doctor wants to keep me on Cardizem because the tachycardia can be quite severe. I'm only on 30 mg twice a day.