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Tight Chest, Congested Feeling no Cough, Discomfort Taking Deep Breath
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Hi! I have allllmost the same symptoms. Maybe a little different! I woke up about 3 months ago feeling like I wasn't getting enough air, and I got dizzy and lightheaded, nauseated. I lost my appetite for a week. I had heart palpitations, and my blood pressure which is normally pretty low, being that I am an 18-year-old female who weighs 115, was in the 150's/90 and it would bounce around. No health issues before this. I went to the emergency room twice, I got fluids, and they did lung x rays, all kinds of blood tests, it all came back completely normal. I went to the cardiologist, they looked at my heart, I even got a halter monitor to wear for 24 hours. They found nothing wrong with me. They say I'm completely healthy. That was two months ago. I go days without feeling chest heaviness, and it feels like my throat is heavy too if that makes sense. Like I need to cough but I don't actually need to. I still get waves of nausea here and there. I went back to the doctor about a month ago and they said it is probably just anxiety, but I never feel anxious. it has never even affected me before if I do have anxiety. I don't believe it's anxiety because I literally hang out at home and my house is pretty calm. There is nothing stressful about it here. So what would it be? The fact that it comes and goes and I just went a week without feeling anything bad at all and it just came back is what's weird. I wake up and feel like I have no energy. It feels like I don't have enough energy to breathe. It's like an internal feeling of "I'm tired" but I'm not even tired. I just have no energy and my chest starts feeling heavy. My blood pressure is back normal now and I have improved, it's just my breathing and having an overall feeling of yuck. Anyway, Idk what to do but im too young for this!
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Here are some questions for you to think about:
Are you eating a healthy, varied diet every day, on a schedule of some sort, with limited junk food, caffeine and sodas (sugar or diet)?
How much plain water do you drink every day?
Do you smoke or vape any substance, or are you exposed second-hand smoke?
Do you work or go to school? Or did you recently graduate high school and are in transition?
How much screen time - phone, TV, computer, gaming do you do each day?
How much physical activity do you do each day - house & yard work, work, exercise, walking, biking, etc?
Do you keep regular hours - getting up and going to sleep at similar times, or do you nap, binge watch shows into the wee hours, work rotating shifts?
Do you have your own place, or live with family?
Are you financially and physically secure or do you worry about food, money, housing, future?
Do you have regular social interaction, in person or distanced, with people your own age who you actually know personally?
Are you in a relationship, and is it stable or shaky?
Now, think about when those bad days happen - are they related to any of the above? Maybe you could keep a journal for a month - what you do, eat, drink, feel - and see if it reveals anything about when you feel bad. Then you have something to evaluate to try to find a root cause or to take back to your doctor.
Absent any real findings by the doctors, and their concern about anxiety, I would guess that at your age, you are needing to make a lot of decisions, that may be true even if you don't recognize it. And people who "hang out" a lot sometimes don't maintain good and regular eating, sleeping and exercise habits, that can contribute to feeling bad.
I hope you can do some detective work and figure this out - it's no fun to feel lousy. Stop by any time if you have more concerns, and we can chat.
Sue