Pain when Breathing

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captain_charisma1

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Hi,

I've had this recurring pain for 14-20 days now. It only happens when I breath, no sore throat, no cough. It's alot worse when I lie down. The pain is in a triangular area from the sides of my neck down to my upper chest. It comes on slowly over a few days....kind of peaks and goes away but comes back 2 days later. I'm very fatgued when the pain is bad and any sort of activity just makes it worse. I've had every test over the last 10 days...chest x-ray, nuclear medicine chest scan, numerous ECGs and lots of blood work. I think the docs think it's a chest pain but it's more like I was punched in the lower throat and the pain doesn't go away. Also....I cannot find any sore spot but touching the area. The pain would come and go but it seems to be constant now and is encompassing my whole neck area also. The neck pain is not as intense as the pain when I breath. The pain in my upper chest feels like the "after pain" like if you had had a bad deep cough for several days...like a scorched pain.....not a shooting pain. My blood work also showed a marker that indicated a high level of inflamation

If anyone has any ideas what this might be I would great apprciate your input:confused:

thanks
paul
 
Has anyone mentioned pleurisy? Do a search and see if any of the symptoms match up. Otherwise, I'm at a loss unless you've been lifting weights and have strained some muscles in your chest.
Soibhan
 
My nephew, a ranked marathon runner, had something similar. It was inflamed cartilage in his chest. I can't remember the proper name for it...but he had terrible pain when he would breath. He just had to sit and wait it out till it healed...which too about eleven months. Unfortunately that's an area that gets used a lot.
 
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