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It's best not to med around with chest pain. I'd get him a work-up with a cardiologist just to make sure nothing's going on.
That said, I'm 55, with no heart problems. And I definitely have weird heart feelings when my HGB is low. For me, the trouble starts mostly only if I get under 7.5. Sometimes my chest feels full. Other times I awake from sleep to find my heart racing. If the HGB gets into the sixes, my heart can start flopping around like a catfish in the bottom of an aluminum boat on a hot Summer day.
I may eventually ask my doc to up my transfusion threshold from 8.0 to 8.5 or 9.0, just to prevent this kind of stuff.
Take Care!
Greg
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