Sometimes when I’m half asleep I suddenly feel a sharp pain, as if I’m being pricked by a needle in my chest. For a few seconds (i.e. less than 30) I’m unable to breathe in, as doing so increases the pain. As quickly as it arrives, it dissapears. The pain is always in the same place, about half way up my ribcage on my left hand side, and slightly inside my body, and lieing on that side seems to worsen the pain. The pain is very strong, but it isn’t what I’d call unbearable.
I’ve had this pain for as long as I can remember (I think I even saw the doctor about it when I was 13, as the first time I had the pain I seriously thought I was having a heart attack. He described them as “growing pains”) and I’ve also asked a few of my friends about the pain, a few of them have had exactly the same sort of pain in roughly the same area, it appears at roughly the same time (when they’re half asleep) and is made worse by breathing in.
What exactly is this pain? I’m 19, pretty active and have a decent enough diet, so what could it be? A trapped nerve?
Thanks.
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