question: Hi, I have a question about abdominal aortic aneurysms.  I was watching Dr. Oz earlier and he touched on the subject, so it got me to wondering about my symptoms.  My mother had a abdominal aneurysm repair done in 1999.  In 2007 she died when it ruptured at the age of 69.  My father passed away last year at the age of 72 from Myeloid leukemia,  he also had a abdominal aneurysm his cardiologist was watching.  Over the past 4 years I have been experiencing weird symptoms.  It really began one night while alseep, I was dreaming I couldn't beath and kept falling down and finally I couldn't stand back up. I woke up and my heart was pounding rapidly and extremely hard and shortness of breath.  I could feel it from the top of my head to the ends of my toes.  I got up, took a couple aspirin, waited about 30 minutes to an hour and went back to bed.  Since then I have had rapid heart rates, fluttering in my heart, elevated pulse rates, shortness of breath, constant nagging chest pains, with numbness and tingling, radiating up into my neck and down my left arm and thru to the center of my back.  I also can feel a constant heart beat in my stomach, between my rib cage. There is also a constant heavy feeling with a lot of stomach swellling/ bloating with fatique, not wanting to do much of anything but I have to. I have had a stress test w/o contract, holter monitor and EKG.  Nothing, the doctor says its anxiety.  During the last 6 to 8 months I have been experiencing swelling.  Feet, ankles, legs, my entire body swells. I have also been told by a MD, it is not kidney failure. I don't have high blood pressure.  My pressure today was 103/64.  The bottom # has been in the 40"s before. The pain and symptoms are getting worse as time goes by and I feel something isn't right.  I have had weight gain during the past 6 to 8 months of around 10 pounds.  I am 52, 5'5", currently 160 Lbs.