How to stop heart disease/chest pain?

Hi, I am an overweight (220 pound) 34 y.o BW with chest pain. happens several times a day since I started using my elliptical 2 weeks ago (since stopped). There are 2 kinds of pain: pain when I breathe and pain that starts with a "pop" or spasm underneath left breast in middle of chest then pain radiates down left arm to my fingers, throbs for awhile and then with aspirin goes away until I move suddenly or breathe deeply/or in cold weather. I have had this problem several times in the past 10 years and have gone to the ER each time only to be told I don't have a heart condition; but I do have consto-chondritis (which doesn't explain the pop and radiating pain, but only the pain in the middle of my chest). Could I still have heart disease that they aren't seeing & if so what can do to stop it? what tests should Dx be running? I am eating right and was exercising, but I've stopped using the elliptical because of this. also have some edema/hiatal hernia. EKG/slight arrhythmia=Dx said ok

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Well....first of all you need a physical. You have several high risk factors including being very overy weight. Also, as a person of color, your risks for high blood pressure and heart disease are higher. Your physician will of course take your blood pressure and probably do an EKG as well as blood work. You also have a higher risk of diabetes as a person of color...and as a woman. Both your heart and lungs are working overtime to help supply your body with its basic needs and you may need medications for BP, if not also your heart....depending on the results of the tests your doctor wants done.

Your question struck a bit of foreboding in me. I have worked in the health industry for more than 35 years and I have seen young woman of color...and young men also, cripple or lose there lives because of undected high BPs and subsequent heart disease/failure. You ARE young and you have so much good life ahead of you and you are needed by family and friends. Please put yourself under a doctor's care ASAP. The life you save could be your own.

Shay, I just noticed that you asked the question regarding heart failure and mitral valve prolapse....is this your problem? If it is, you may find that losing weight will allow your heart to work with less stress. I don't know if you have actual heart damage or if you are just (at this point) feeling symptoms....either way, you need to be under a doctor's care.