Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Pain In Chest Posted: 12-01-05 12:48pm
Hello my name is jenny, i'm 23 yrs. Old
i've been a smoker since about the age of
13. And i've been having some pains and
was wondering if anyone has had anything
similiar and help to give me some incite
on to what it may be.
It all started shortly after my daughter
was born in oct of 2004 I started having
sharp pains in my chest. About 3 mos ago
I went to a doctor for another reason and
also told her about the pains I had been
having in my chest. I would get these
sharp pains in the center of my chest
about where your heart would be and
everytime I would try to take
acetaminophen it wouldnt go away I would
have to take pure aspirin to get rid of it
and that kinda bothered me thinking it was
my heart because aspirin thins the blood.
Well in my lab work she tested me for h.
Pylori some acid in my stomach for ulcers
which was slightly elevated to where she
thought I didnt have an ulcer but was
possibly on my way to getting one, so she
prescribed prev-pack which is basically a
high dose of antibiotics and prevacid to
treat me anyways. Eventhough what I was
explaining to her wasnt a burning sort of
pain as with indegestion heart burn an
ulcer that sort of thing but more a sharp
pain. So I was treated for that as well
as at the same time I was diagnosed with
pre-diabetes meaing im not diabetic but if
I dont eat right and exercise within
possibly 5 yrs I could become diabetec
because my pancreas is being overworked.
Ok so on to more recent symptoms the
prev-pac did not take away my chest pains.
I just continued to take my regimin of
aspirin and was fine until about 4 days
ago aspirin isnt working anymore and I got
that sharp pain in the middle of my chest
worse than ive had it in the past. Then
about 2 days ago not only did I get a
sharp pain in the center of my chest but
my whole back ached right where my lungs
would be it hurt like an ache and a sharp
pain. It felt like I had a rock stuck in
my chest it felt heavy and localized in
the middle of my chest in front in that
one spot center slightly left and in back
on both sides. Also I would get to where
id get a sharp pain in my right wrist
kinda in the vein up my arm like where
they would put an iv. That would happen
very seldom though like 2 or 3 times. It
would feel as though I was gonna have a
heart attack but not because other
symptoms I didnt have. Well and now today
it seems as tho the pain kinda shifted I
feel that rock feeling like its moved to
my back side lower left, along with my
sides like my rib cage like when you run a
long time you get that sharp ache only
much milder, and my front side in the
center of my chest still has sharp pains
not as bad as the last few days though.
The only thing is what I couldnt figure is
with all the research i've done online
trying to figure out what it may be from
wracking my brain is it cancer? Is it
this?? Is it that?? Everything I look up
from emphysema, copd, bronchitis, angina,
pneumonia seems like anything I look up im
missing the main symptoms the coughing
which I dont have (any more than usual
considering im a smoker) and the shortness
of breath, trouble breathing or weezing I
dont have any of that. All I have is the
pains and I try to take my pulse but its
hard to find in my wrist and if I try to
check it in my neck I feel about to faint
1/2 way through checking it. I dont know
if its really in my lungs my heart or a
little of both but either way I am not
haveing any trouble with my breathing or
anything and the pain doesnt seem to be
affected by things such as eating certain
foods or exercise any of that. So im
sitting her trying to figure out in my
head what it could possibly be because im
gonna end up going to a doctor and I have
no medical insurance so I am going to the
er, and I dont even want to see that bill
so I figure if im going in and gonna be
slapped with a major bill might as well go
over everything and find out whats going
on. So im going over all my options as to
what it could be to have them check so
that im not getting a huge bill and going
home problem unsolved like so many
physicians seem to like to do in my
opinion its always try this if it dont get
better come back and well bill you again.
I dont wanna have to go back so im going
over everything I can now before I go in.
So if anyone has had any similiar
instances and can possibly give me some
incite id really, really appreciate
it...... Thank you
p.S. Also I should mention that about a
month ago I started experiencing some
lower abdominal cramps off and on (and I
am not pregnant or even get a cycle
because im on depo) as well as pain on my
right side about just above my hip, to
where I thought great my appendix is
acting up but it comes and goes like a
throbbing cramp that comes about twice a
weeks or so, and I dont know if its
relavant or even associated with my chest
pain I have now considering my side and
lower abdomen hasnt been doing that lately
as ive been having my chest pain altho
thought maybe I should mention that as
well incase it could be related in some
way.
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Reverend Spike
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 1 Location: North Carolina
Lung Pain Posted: 02-24-06 09:36am
I share your frustration for wanting to
know what that chest pain is. Quick
background: I have had asthma since I was
a young child. I learned to live with you
and was told by many that I would outgrow
it. It did start to get some better but I
messed around and started smoking when I
was about 17. I finally quit when I was
25 (34 now) because I got a series of lung
infections and pneumonia over about a 12
month period that I had to quit. Well, my
asthma gradually started getting better
again and then when I was about 31 it got
to the point that I had not used my
inhaler in about 6 months.
Then suddenly I noticed it started to get
bad again. Had to start using my inhaler
again. And then I started having these
faint, yet very evident pains on the left
side of my chest. Feels like its just
below my heart. Well I tried to ignore it
until it started to get more frequent and
more painful. Started going to the dr and
they looked at everything and could not
find it. I was getting frustrated so I
just decided to deal with it. Then it got
real bad and it scared me. The
combination of the pain and my fear of
what it was started to make have spells of
dizziness and nausea. I ended up in the
hospital for 3 days. They treated me like
a heart patient because it was pain on the
left side of the chest, but after a series
of tests they found my heart to be ok.
The pulmonologist brushed me off, to be
frank, because I was coughing up stuff.
I went to another pulmonologist and he
said I did have some pockets of congestion
in my lung, but he didn't think it would
cause the pain. So, getting sick of
doctors, I just dealt with it and
eventually it went away. Well now its
started to come back which has prompted me
to do some research to find out what it
is.