So about eight years ago I picked up a heavy box and all of the sudden on my left side it felt like it was on fire and I couldn’t breath. The pain was bad. I figured I must have tore or pulled a muscle, so i took some advils and over the next 3 days it went away.
But over the past years about twice a year I will do something and the same thing happens. It’s like my chest is constricted, and I cant move my right arm up and out without pain. I take a few advils and a day or so later its gone.
I have lived with it figuring it was just a muscle thing (yeah, im an idiot) but this year my wife and I had our first child, and with all the lifting and carrying the problem comes back way more often. Except now I can start to feel it happening, its like a little tingle behind my right shoulder blade and my chest gets a little tight, but I can sit up straight, pull my shoulders back and my breastbone “cracks” and it goes away.
I had a physical two weeks ago (everything is fine, heart, lungs, blood work, all good) and I finally asked my doc about it. he sent me for a chest xray to start (on monday) but thinks it wont probably see anything he just wants to start there.
I looked around on WebMD for a cause, but couldnt find anything. As soon as you type in “chest” there you get 14 pages of heart attack stuff.
Anyway, I was hoping someone around here might have had the same thing happen, or is happening to them now, or some ideas. Any help?