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So far what I am hearing is you can have chest pain if you have an infection. I have had chest pain for many months, they come and go, very sharp painful on mostly my left side but occasionally on my right. I did the cardiologist thing complete with nuclear stress test, etc. and my heart is very strong. My GP thinks it is muscular, maybe from water aerobics where I do a lot of jumping and twisting (although cutting back on that). I don't have any other symptoms other than occasionally tired but that kind of happens to me in afternoons. My lung doc said no, don't come from chest. Right now it's just a mystery but I'm going to start pushing my internist to do some more testing.
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Actually, chest pain is one of the symptoms of bronchiectasis - even though I know many pulmonologists discount it. Their logic is that the LUNGS don't feel pain.
The problem is in how we describe the issue. Since my early 60s, I have had many kinds of chest pain, from coughing, from overly vigorous airway clearance, costochondritis (inflammation of the ribs), pleurisy (inflammation of the lining between lungs and pleural cavity), muscular (most recently from too fast increase in weight training after surgery), asthma and angina.
Like @picartist, it has been a "pain" to unravel the causes. I do know that I get a certain chest pain (a heavy, achy feeling) with any exacerbation - it is one of my signs to increase airway clearance & rest and watch carefully - if it gets worse, I contact my pulmonologist and we start my emergency plan.
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My chest pains only come after sleeping or suddenly twisting. They usually never just pop up from anywhere.