Tight chest and chest pain

FOr me the chest pain and tightness were a direct side effect of the rifampin. WEnt to the heart doctor and was cleared. The rifampin was interfering with the effectiveness of my BP meds. My meds were changed and adjusted now i am fine after suffering with the chest pain for 6 months!

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.

My chest pains only come after sleeping or suddenly twisting. They usually never just pop up from anywhere.

I'm not sure if you're talking about the same thing, but there are times when I breathe deeply it feels like the inside of my lungs are raw & It's painful and causes me to cough. At these times I have to shallow breathe. It is usually an indication that I have a lung infection again.

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.

I've been having chest pains on both side since about the time I was diagnosed with BE. The pains may happen once and then go away until they come back in a few days or so. I would describe these pains as extensive, they last about thirty seconds, go away, endorphins kick in momentarily, then they come back again until they stop about five minutes later. My doctor has been on top of this for a year and feels they are muscular. If so, I would think I would have some muscle tenderness afterwards but I do not. I also take water aerobics and I twist from side to side without any issues. I have read about this on google and BE can cause pains related to a number of issues but my pulmonary doc said no when I brought it up six months or so ago. Anyone have those kind of stabbing pains that has been associated with BE. I've been through the cardiologist, did a Nuclear Stress Test, etc. all negative for heart issues.