It's never felt that painful before.

[TheOriginalJames]

I think I've always had some sort of a heart murmur, but the doctors and the tests back in high school all came up negative.

Well, last night I was sound asleep. Around either 2 or 5 am (hey I don't wear glasses while I'm sleeping, it all looks the same to me), I was sleeping on my stomach when the inability to breathe deeply woke me up. I was taking very short very choppy breaths because I had some serious pain right where my heart is.

So I sat up and kept breathing, as I sat up I felt a "pop" or a "bing" in my chest and the pain went away.

It's really really weird, kind of like my heart slipped between my ribs and couldn't expand fully or something?

I dunno what it was... but I've never had that happen before. Unless it was my lungs or something, I have no idea what that could have been.


Yeah I know... I'm skinny. You don't have to tell me.

 

[Sneakiecat]

I sometimes get a sharp pain when breathing if I lean a bit to one side while sitting (if that makes sense). It'll last for a few minutes and then stop suddenly. No one has been able to figure out what's wrong with me.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

It does that to me too. It can just happen out of the blue, like it just hurts to breathe, but after a bit it goes away.

 

[Sneakiecat]

It feels like something's stuck in there and every breath pushes it deep. And then it's just gone.

 

[Veronica]

wow... that sounds like it was painful. I dunno what that could of been.

 

[Anniston]

Sounds more like a lung/breathing issue. Does asthma run in your family? Doubtful a heart murmur would yeild such symptoms.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Um asthma really doesn't... but on the other side of that my aunt and mom "do have" asthma.

I use "..." because the allergy and asthma doctor here in town pretty much prescribes everyone of his patients with asthma. lol

 

[TheOriginalJames]

wow... that sounds like it was painful. I dunno what that could of been.

Yeah, to describe it a little better; have you ever accidently stabbed yourself with a real sharp knife? It feels like I'm being pricked on the inside of my chest everytime I try to take a breath deeper than a short choppy inhale.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Asthma is the fashionable thing for my students to have. I think one in five "have" it. But it's so slight that it doesn't affect them.

 

[Haus]

cut out the smoking

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Classic... The chest pain when breathing were in existance LONG before I smoked. When I had the heart tests which were NEGATIVE in high school, I'd never smoked before.


Edit: I'm sure it's not helping, but it's not the root cause of it.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

heart murmurs wouldnt do that. a heart murmur is basically a tiny hole in your heart, that causes it to not beat in perfect rhythm all the time. I have a heart murmur, that's how i know.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

But see, my heart doesn't always beat in a perfect rhythm either. Sometimes it speeds up making feel like I'm short on breath. It used to do that in gym and I'd start coughing.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

go see a dr? i duno

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Yeah I dunno either. Just sayin it hurt and it's never done that before last night.

 

[Mrs Behavin]

Do you feel like your getting sick, like getting a cold? I wonder if your trying to catch bronchitis. Just a thought.
Or did you pull a muscle?

 

[alleycat]

actually I get that every morning. I know this is going to sound crazy but its your sternum and it needs to be cracked. If you take a normal or deep breath it feels like stabbing pain right? Lift your hands high above your head and stretch backwards and your sternum will crack and you will be great. It feels like a big pop thru your whole chest and right thru to your back. It's pretty crazy. Try it!

 

[alleycat]

But see, my heart doesn't always beat in a perfect rhythm either. Sometimes it speeds up making feel like I'm short on breath. It used to do that in gym and I'd start coughing.

yeah it wont be a murmur. They would pick that up in a regular doc visit. You could have an arrythmia. Have them run an ecg strip on u and if you can send it to me I can take a look at it and do some measurements for ya. It is what I do for a living.

 

[Tim]

actually I get that every morning. I know this is going to sound crazy but its your sternum and it needs to be cracked. If you take a normal or deep breath it feels like stabbing pain right? Lift your hands high above your head and stretch backwards and your sternum will crack and you will be great. It feels like a big pop thru your whole chest and right thru to your back. It's pretty crazy. Try it!

The medical term for this is Precordial Catch Syndrome. It has nothing to do with your sternum, your heart or you lungs. I used to get these all the time and the doctor wouldn't give me any good answers on it, he would just say to not worry about it, that it wasn't harmful.

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[Tim]

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