Hi @jaybb1

Your upper chest having discomfort and tightness could be from aspirating on your own salvia, eating food or liquids. Sometimes you may not even know that it's happening. If you get CT scan with part of your surveillance after treatment, it should be able to detect it. Happened to me which turned into a low-grade aspiration pneumonia that I was walking around with for many months. I figured it out with my own research and got a referral from my ENT to see a pulmonologist who gave me an Aerobika Device as mucus was plugged up and this released it. Since then, it has reduced substantially and I even can take very deep breaths again without coughing or feeling that tightness.

God Bless