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I can simpathize with everyone who is left feeling helpless. Sometimes the medical community doesn't follow up when they don't find quick answers. In my case i have several issues. It started with what was thought to be IBS after a trip to Southeast Asia. After a year of seeing doctors they came up with nothing. Then for the last 18 months I have had off and on pain in the right side of my shest near the breast bone that sometimes causes shoulder blade pain. I keep in faily good shape but at 67 it could be anything. It started as a pinching sensation..Then more like a sharp pain that is mildly worse with deep breathing. I am a serious weightlifter and I do smoke but have quit several times for months. The doc sent me to have a stress test and it showed very mild coronary artery disease. I don't know if the pain is related but I think not. I noticed that it sometimes gets worse when I smoke.. The symptoms started 18 months ago a few weeks after I started lifting weight again after a layoff. I also get shortness of breath , randomly and not necessarily due to activity. Like I have said I have been to the doctors several times with nothing new about possible causes. Also had been diagnosed with gerd 20 years ago but that hasn't seemed to be a problem lately.. So, yes..I feel helpless too.
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I believe that there is a type of respiratory problem that causes the type of chest pain or problem you are describing. I suffer quite debilitating chest and upper back pain when I inhale paint fumes, smoke of any kind, air in a place where pets reside, even an asthma
Pump unless used cautiously and I inhale slowly. The things that I am sensitive to will cause an irritation of the airway which is painful and consequently results in muscle spasm of the airways which is more painful. Strictly speaking this is not asthma.
Doctors call it “twitchy airways”
It has to do with the muscles in the chest that control breathing. It’s difficult to deal with.Along with the chest pain It makes taking every breath an effort. Really the only solution is to figure out what you are sensitive to and stay away from things that cause this problem for you. I also have IBS but have never been to Asia.
I hope you can identify a cause for your chest pain. There are some conditions that searching for a medical diagnosis and solution are fruitless. They are a condition that are just a fact of life for some people. Better to make changes in our life that avoid the problem rather than looking for a cure unless the condition is impossible to live with.
Do a bit of research around costochondritis and brachial plexopathy. Pain in those areas can mimic cardiac-related pain. Costochondritis can affect the xiphoid which can cause tension in the diaphragm area, which can cause GERD-like symptoms and shortness of breath.
Ask them to do heart catherlizatiin, n sounds could be costochondritis in the chest . You get it from smoking , I use to get that n muscle swell in chest it’s very painful.i wish you the best
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Have you been checked for an ulcer??